Koger-Murray-Carroll House

(Front text)

This house, an excellent example of early Federal era-architecture, was built about 1800 for Joseph Koger, Jr. (1779-1866), planter, state representative 1806-1812, Colleton District sheriff 1813-18, and state senator 1818-1838. Koger moved to Mississippi in 1838 and sold ...

General John Morgan

Marched north along this road on

Sunday, July 12, 1863

in

His raid across southern Indiana

Marker is on North Main Street north of East Tyson Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Harry Fishburne Estill

Fifth President of Sam Houston State University

Estill was valedictorian of the Sam Houston Normal Institute's first senior class in 1880 and spent 55 years on campus as student, faculty member, and president. He authored early United States history texts for ...

Potawatomi Emigration

Trail of Death

Indiana to Kansas 1838

On Oct. 11, 1838, 850 Potawatomi Indians camped at Pleasant Spring near Palmyra on the forced removal from Northern Indiana to Eastern Kansas. They passed through Palmyra at 10 o'clock October 12. That night they ...

Charles Norton Shaver

Sixth President of Sam Houston State University

Shaver received a bachelor’s degree from Sam Houston State Teachers College in 1923. He served n the Texas Legislature and as President of the Texas State Teachers Association, helping to create the State's Teacher-Retirement ...

Mathews Mill Veterans Monument

West Side:

Forever Honour'd Forever Mourn'd

This tablet is reverently dedicated to the memory of

Thomas L. Hitt

Carl Henry Holder

who gave their lives for their country in the Korean Conflict

South Side:

Erected 1947

by

Employees and Management of

Mathews Mill

East Side:

In Memoriam

Here in enduring bronze are

recorded the ...

Mechlin's Tavern

Tavern lot purchased by

J. Robeson in 1752 from the

“Great Society.” Tavern and

farm were in Mechlin’s family

ownership from 1810 to 1934.

Marker is at the intersection of Mechlin Corner Road (County Route 579 at milepost 30.4) and Bloomsbury Road (County Route 625), ...

Miss Mary Green

This tablet is dedicated by the Atlanta Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to the memory of Miss Mary Green, who established this Resaca Cemetery –- the first in this state -- for our Confederate soldiers.

Made by the ...

Kilbourn City

Kilbourn Landmark

The first bridge on this site, a wooden structure, was completed in 1857. Byron Kilbourn, land speculator and politician promoted the site. Through his influence the LaCrosse and Milwaukee Railroad crossed the river here instead of at Newport, 2 ...

Rebecca Kilgore Stuart Red

1827 - 1886

Rebecca Jane Kilgore Stuart became principal of Live Oak Female Seminary in Washington County, Texas, in 1853. In 1854 she married Dr. George Clark Red and continued teaching. The Reds moved to Austin in 1876, and opened Stuart ...