Greene County Coal Miners Memorial

John L. Lewis, President

United Mine Workers of America

1920 to 1960

Greene County, Pennsylvania

proudly dedicates this monument

to all coal miners

On December 6, 1962, 460 feet directly beneath this site,

37 miners lost their lives in the U.S. Steel

Robena ...

The Red River Plunge of Bonnie and Clyde

On June 10, 1933, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pritchard and family saw from their home on the bluff (west) the plunge of an auto into Red River. Rescuing the victims, unrecognized as Bonnie Parker and Clyde and Buck Barrow, they ...

Forest Lodge Belvedere

This Belvedere, meaning "beautiful view" was one of three Forest Lodge towers. Forest Lodge, constructed in the 1880s by Captain John Cussons, was a six-story hotel on 1000 acres in Glen Allen, west of the railroad tracks. Cussons created gardens, ...

Sherman's Left Wing

On Dec. 4, 1864, Kilpatrick`s cavalry division [Union] of Gen. Sherman`s army, supported by two brigades of Baird`s infantry division of the 14th Corps, drove units of Wheeler`s cavalry corps [Confederate] out of Waynesboro and across Brier Creek in order ...

Mill Creek Church

War Strikes Peaceful Homes and Fields

This church, Mill Creek Church of the Brethren, stands on the site of an antebellum house of worship that, during the Battle of Cross Keys on June 8, 1862, was used as a hospital. Amputated ...

2nd Bomb Group (H)

7 Dec. 1941 - 28 Feb. 1946

20th Bomb Sq (H) • 49th Bomb Sq (H)

96th Bomb Sq (H) • 429th Bomb Sq (H)

The 2d Bombardment Group relocated

to Ephrata, Washington, then to Great

Falls, Montana in 1942. Received newer

B-17 aircraft and deployed ...

Battle of Cross Keys

Trimble’s Ravine

On June 8, 1862, Confederate Gen. Isaac R, Trimble led part of the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment through the then-swampy ravine in front of you to attack Union Gen. Louis Blenker’s division. Trimble intended to move around the 54th ...

200 Years Later

200 years later we remember

September 28, 1978

Presented by

Baylor's Dragoons Memorial Committee

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Red Oak Drive and Rivervale Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Springer

Population 1,696 - Elevation 5,857

Located in the old Maxwell Land Grant and near the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail, Springer served as Colfax County seat from 1882 to 1897. Several men were killed here in one of the ...

Cloud's Creek Baptist Church

In 1785, following the Revolutionary War, pioneers from North Carolina--including the Hendons, Hartsfields, Standifers, Johnsons, Lawrences, and Olives--settled near Big Cloud's Creek on the Georgia frontier near the Creek and Cherokee nations. Olive's Fort was soon constructed and Cloud's Creek ...