Clarke County Courthouse

The year after Clarke County was formed in 1836, construction began on a brick courthouse based on county justice David Meade’s design. The courthouse was remodeled in the Neoclassical style about 1850 when the portico and cupola were added. Portraits ...

Cross Creek Cemetery

Confederate Burial Grounds

This is the oldest public cemetery in Fayetteville, begun in 1785. Mrs. Anne K. Kyle, who served as a nurse in the hospital here during the Civil War, established the Confederate Burial Ground soon after Union Gen. William ...

San Gabriel Mission

Founded September 8, 1771

This marks the oldest building in Southern California of brick, stone and mortar. Built 1791-1805, completed and dedicated.

Marker can be reached from South Mission Drive east of South Junipero Serra Drive, on the right when ...

Easton World War II & Korean War Monument

Lest We Forget

In Memory Of The Easton Veterans

Of World War II And Korea

Albers, Jack • Allen, G.I. • Allison, Robert • Anton, Richard • Anton, Robert C. • Baksay, John Jr. • Ballantyne, Arthur S. • Ballantyne, ...

Rev. Henry Quigg, D.D.

Born Ireland 1826,

Died Conyers, Georgia 1907.

A.B., B.D. Erskine College, D.D. Emory University.

Ordained September 26, 1856

by Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.

Pastor Hopewell 1856 - 1867.

Joined Atlanta Presbytery, U.S. Church 1867.

Pastor Smyrna 1869 - 1904.

Pastor Conyers ...

Pittsburgh Grease Plant

Long a major producer of lubricating grease for industry, transportation, and the military. In WWII, supplied 5,000,000 pounds of “Eisenhower grease,” vital to the war effort. Founded here, 1885, by Grant McCargo. After 1929, part of Standard Oil (NJ); operated ...

John Ford Memorial

[On the base of the John Ford statue ]:

John Ford, Director

- “I Make Westerns”

Born: John Martin Feeney, 2-1-1894

Died: John Ford, 8-31-1973

Portland High School Class of 1914

Married Mary McBride Smith of North Carolina, 1920

- From Laurinburg, NC

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Easton Remembers

1914 1919

Easton Remembers

The Great War

These Served

Dr. C. Lincoln Banks • Frank G. Davis • Howard Elderd • Marna W. Gilbert • Carlton, Gordon • Victor E. Gustafson • Andrew Jaros • John G. Keller • Joseph H. Keller • Daniel ...

Presston

Pressed Steel Car Company provided worker housing at substantial cost to employees, keeping them in constant debt. During the 1909 McKees Rocks strike against the company, immigrant workers were evicted from their homes. The evictions led to the August 22 ...

Skirmish Line

In this vicinity and parallel to the driveway, a line of scattered human remains were detected in 2000, which may mark the main skirmish line of the 17th U.S. Infantry. The bodies of those killed lay exposed to the elements ...