Appomattox County Eternal Flame

War Memorial

(East Side):World War I

James R. Beasley

Jerry S. Beasley

James T. Cyrus

Edward B. Gunter

Robert F. Irving

Sam J. Harvey

Herman L. Lee

Thomas A. Owen

Phillip B. Swan

Campbell W. Teeter

Melvin M. Watkins

Melvin Watson

John L. Deaner

(North Side):World War II

George D. Akers • James D. Lee

Dewey C. ...

Diamond Match Lumber Co.

The original building was destroyed in the fire of 1924. Six months later the present building opened as a hardware store. It has the pressed concrete walls and pressed tin ceiling typical of fire measures taken when the town was ...

Appomattox County Units

That Served in the Confederate States Army

Appomattox Invincibles

Company A, 20th Battalion Virginia Heavy Artillery

Formerly Company A, 44th Virginia Infantry

Appomattox Greys

Company H 18th Virginia Infantry

Appomattox Rangers

Company H, 2nd Virginia Cavalry

Liberty Guards

Company B, 46th Virginia Infantry

Kyle's Company Heavy Artillery

Jones Company

Company I, 3rd ...

Battles of Martin Creek and Morgan's Mill

Near this place, on February 8, 1864, Union and Confederate forces engaged in a 12 mile running battle that ranged from the old Morgan's Mill on Spring River up and across Martin's Creek along the old Indian trail that ran ...

Bates County World War I Memorial

In Memory of Our

World War Veterans

Unveiled under auspices of

the American Legion Posts

of Bates Co.

May 30, 1927

Marker is at the intersection of Ohio Street and Delaware Street, on the left when traveling west on Ohio Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Black Bart at Funk Hill

Copperopolis

July 1875, at Funk Hill 4 miles due east Black Bart, alias Charles E. Bolton or Boles, wearing a flour sack mask and a linen duster, waving a double-barrelled shot gun held up the Wells Fargo Sonora to Milton Stage. ...

Forrest County Confederate Monument

[Northeast Inscription]:

C.S.A.

To the Men and Women of

the Confederacy

1861-1865

[Southwest Inscription]:

When their county called

they held back nothing.

They cheerfully gave their

property and their lives.

Through the devotion and

untiring efforts of the

Hattiesburg Chapter No. 422

of the United Daughters

of the Confederacy, this

monument is erected to

the honor ...

Marais des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Site Trail

A Nation at Odds

The mid 1800s were a time of turmoil and tragedy in the U.S. The issue of slavery polarized the nation. It created a moral, political, and economic dilemma. The struggle over slavery ultimately led to the Civil ...

Buckland Mills Battle

Custer's Position

(Preface): On October 19, 1863, 12,000 Confederate and Union cavalry clashed at the Battle of Buckland Mills in the last large-scale Confederate victory in Virginia. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, screening the Confederate infantry’s march to Culpeper County, blocked Union Gen. ...

The Trolley Station at Bayshore Park

1906-1947

The #26 streetcar brought thousands of Baltimoreans to Bayshore Park. Trolleys provided a convenient way for people to travel and could be chartered for group outings. Many people spent their vacations trolleying, using trolley maps to see where they could ...