Sand Mountain Plateau

Thrifty German colonists, led by Col. John G. Cullman, in 1873 settled this thinly populated plateau.

This section, previously thought unproductive, became famous for its diversified crops.

Marker is on 2nd Ave SW.

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Dedicated to All Who Served

(Evans County Georgia)

[ Emblems:]

US Army, USAF

US Navy, US Marines

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Evans Countians

Killed in Action

World War I

1917-1918

Walter A. Campbell • Robert F. Dregors •

Virgil C. Teems • Herchel C. Wood

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Evans ...

Plantation Barnyard

Pemberton Plantation Historic Trail

Like most Chesapeake plantations, Pemberton used a wide range of domestic animals for food, clothing, transportation, and commercial products. Most animals served multiple purposes. Cattle provided milk, meat, hides to tan, and cattle horns for products such ...

The "Peculiar Institution" at Pemberton Plantation

Pemberton Plantation Historic Trail

Like most 18th-century plantations in the Chesapeake region, Pemberton Hall Plantation depended on slave labor. Between 1700 and 1740, some 54,000 slaves were brought to the Chesapeake region. When Isaac Handy died in 1762, records show that ...

Oil House Foundation

The brick border on the plaza area in front of you marks the location of the underground foundation and cellar of an oil house built about 1870.

This oil house is the earliest known oil storage and distribution facility at the ...

A Water Connection

Pemberton Park Historic Trail

Beneath these waters lie the buried timbers of the oldest documented wharf of its kind in the United States. The timbers date back to 1746 when Colonel Isaac Handy built a 200-food bulkhead wharf here at Mulberry ...

Nature's Pasture

Pemberton Park Historic Trail

If you had stood here 250 years ago, you would likely have seen cattle grazing in the tidal marshlands. The area between the mainland and Bell Island was known as "Handy's Meadow." Following Colonel Handy's death in ...

Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie

1819 – 1894

[English]

Begbie practised [sic] law in England for fourteen years before his appointment in 1858 as the first judge of the mainland Colony of British Columbia. During the gold rush, he won the respect of lawless miners of the ...

Battles in the Marmaton Valley

A State Divided: The Civil War in Missouri

Action at Dry Wood Creek, Sept. 2, 1861

Following the Southern victory at Wilson's Creek near Springfield (Aug. 10, 1861), Maj. Gen. Sterling Price led the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, which numbered about 10,000 ...

Ironclads and Gunboats of the Savannah River Squadron

During the Civil War, the Savannah River Squadron protected the City of Savannah from Union attack by river. The

squadron usually consisted of small coastal and river steamers. In November 1861, the British-built blockade-runner Fingal arrived in Savannah and was ...