Reedy River Falls

The falls of the Reedy River were a power source for industry, but they were also the town's chief price in the early nineteenth century. The subject of a Cherokee myth (a brave was said to have thrown himself ...

Old Oakwood Cemetery

The city cemetery was begun by donations of land from Andrew Dexter in 1817 and from General John Scott in 1818. Dexter and Scott had founded separate villages which combined to form Montgomery in 1819. The early part of the ...

Brewster Forge Site

Parts of Great Chain designed to obstruct British navigation of Hudson, 1776-1778, fabricated here during American Revolution.

Mem. Louis San Giacomo 1916-1980

Marker is on Forge Hill Road (County Route 74), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Two Gallant Gentlemen from South Carolina

To honor the memory of two gallant gentleman

of South Carolina. Thomas Fenwick Drayton;

Brigadier-General, C.S.A. and his brother

Commodore Percival Drayton, U.S.N., Captain

of U.S.S. Hartford, and later the first Chief

of Naval Operations.

The brothers met at the outbreak of hostilities,

shook hands, and each ...

Poplar Springs Methodist Camp Ground

Camp meetings have been held here each year, from 1832,except four years during the War Between the States. The 50-acre plot, “extending one-half mile in every direction from the preacher’s stand,” was purchased by from Daniel and Jacob Groover for ...

The Cherokees

Greenville County was Indian Territory before the Revolution. European settlers were forbidden to live here until 1777, when Cherokee Indians were forced to cede this land to the new state. Most of modern day Greenville was hunting land used by ...

Harrison’s Brigade

The 5 regts. of Col. Benjamin Harrison’s brigade of Ward’s div. (20th A.C.) [US] were N. of this ridge when the Confederate attack in this sector was made. The brigade was moved forward in support of Geary’s line & deployed ...

Civil War Medicine / Montgomery's Confederate Hospitals

Side A

During the War Between the States medical knowledge was primitive. As a result, twice as many men died of disease than in battle from wounds. Early in the War, childhood diseases such as measles, mumps and chicken pox decimated ...

Collier's Mill

150 ft. down stream, on the right bank of Tanyard Branch, stood an ante-bellum grist mill built & operated by Andrew J. Collier, pioneer resident of this area. (1827-1887).

A notable landmark at the time of the Battle of Peachtree Creek ...

View Near the M Street Bridge

Sacramento’s importance during the Gold Rush was as a supply depot for outlying towns in the foothill-mining region. The City’s central location to the northern mining region, combined with reliable year-round river transportation to San Francisco, made it ideal as ...