Civil War Skirmish at The Barton Cemetery

Bullet - marked tombstones in this cemetery shows evidence of a brisk skirmish here Oct. 26, 1863, when Gen. P.J. Osterhaus's first division of Sherman's Corps came under fire from Gen. S.D. Lee's Confederate troops. CSA artillery on a hill ...

Forks of The River Cemetery Park

Established in 1976 as a community bicentennial project, this park is significant because it is both the final resting place for several early settlers and decision makers and it is one of the last undeveloped areas that was part of ...

The Jewish Cemetery

The earliest known Jewish settler in the Alexandria-Pineville area was Henry Michael Hyams, whose name appears in the 1830 census. The earliest grave marker identifiable on this site tells that Augusta Bernstein, daughter of Samuel Bernstein, was buried here after ...

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church / Lowther's Hill Cemetery

Marker Front:

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, organized by 1785, first met in a nearby school. It built a sanctuary here in 1791; that year Cashaway Baptist Church merged with it. In 1818 the congregation moved about 2 mi. ...

The Mormon Plot in Concordia Cemetery

The leaders of The Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-Day Saints were looking to Mexico as a possible colonization site. By the spring of 1875, nearly 100 pages of selected passages from the Book of Mormon had been translated into Spanish ...

Cemetery of the Columbia Hebrew Benevolent Society

In this cemetery, 2½ blocks south, on Gadsden Street, are buried many distinguished Jewish citizens, including two mayors of Columbia: Mordecai Hendricks DeLeon (1791-1849) and Henry Lyons (1805-1858). The Benevolent Society was organized in 1822: charted 1834.

Marker is at the ...

Entrance to Cemetery of the Columbia Hebrew Benevolent Society

The society has been in continuous existence since its organization in 1822. It was chartered 1834. Its charities are administered to the needs of the community without regard to creed or race.

Marker is on Gadsden Street, on the right when ...

The Tobey Community Cemetery

The Nat Tobey family moved from Indiana to northeast Burnet County in the 1850s. Sons Avery and Samuel bought land here in Backbone Valley in 1868. At the death of N. W. Tobey, aged 12, this cemetery was opened in ...

The Sunbury Cemetery

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The plan of Sunbury consisted of three community-owned squares: King's Square, Meeting Square, and Church Square. You are standing in the area that was once

Church Square. This 350 by 350-foot area held the church to the ...

Site of Mount Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery

Post Marker:

Known as

Old Swack Church

Erected 1844

Builder Jacob Swackhammer

In use until 1896

Small marker on concrete post:

Mount Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church

(Commonly known as the Swack Church)

Built in 1844 - In use until about 1900

Plaque prepared by

Watchung Area Council, B. S. A.

Marker is ...