Field's Mill & Ferry

May 16, 1864. Butterfield's (3rd) div. 20th A.C., (US) instead of crossing at McClure's Ferry 2mi. downstream, sought to gain time by moving to Field's -- reaching here 11 P.M. Not until noon of the 17th was it across.

The Piper - Beebe House

This Italianate Victorican built in 1876 by A.F. Mackay, later the home of the Edward Piper family, and in 1949 the residence of Lucius M. Beebe, author and publisher, has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by ...

Union Hill Cemetery

Union Hill Cemetery is the burial grounds of many pioneers and early settlers of the Shades Valley area. It was established in the 1870s. but includes gravestones dating back to the early 1850s due to the relocation of two earlier, ...

Tomb of General U.S. Grant

This tree is planted at the site of the tomb of General U.S. Grant, Ex-President of the United States of America, for the purpose of commemorating his greatness by Li Hung Chang, guardian of the Prince, Grand Secretary of State, ...

Old Stone Fort

Old Stone Fort

Site of fort erected by public subscription as a protection againat British warships during the War of 1812, captured in a sneak attack and dismantled by frigate Nymphe. Ammunition gone, all nine seafencibles taken prisoner, the townsmen hurled ...

Old Sonora P.O. Now Sonoraville

May 18, 1864. Maj. Gen. J.D. Cox's (3d) Div., 23d A.C. (US) marching S. from Field's Mill, Coosawattee River, via Cash, took the direct rd. to Sonora. Moving S. 4 mi., the div. turned W. on the Fairmount-Adairsville rd. to ...

Doris Scott

Ninety-Nines Pilot

Presented to

Air Force Museum

by

Doris Scott, Ninety-Nines Pilot

in commemoration

of

United States Bicentennial

July 4, 1976

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ralph Blizard

1918-2004

Ralph Blizard, a Hall of Fame long-bow fiddler, was a pioneer entertainer on radio stations WOPI, WJHL and WKPT, at first with his high school classmates. He recorded and toured with the New Southern Ramblers across the United States and ...

385th Bomb Group (H)

Great Ashfield 8th AF

In Memoriam

of the officers and men of the

385th Bombardment Group (H),

U.S. Army Air Forces who gave

their lives in the Air Battles

over Europe 1943-1945, this

plaque is placed here by the

comrades of those men as an

everlasting tribute to their

heroic ...

Deer Island

Oregon History

Deer Island in the Columbia was named by the Lewis and Clark Expedition which stopped to dine here November 5, 1805 on its way down river. Homeward bound the explorers camped on the island on March 28,1806. Captain Clark ...