Fort Granger

Franklin Stronghold

In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood led the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman’s supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman’s “March to the Sea,” Hood moved north ...

Baxter Springs Civil War Memorial

(dedication on front of marker)

Erected by the United States to the Memory of the Officers and Soldiers Killed in the Battle of Baxter Springs October 8, 1863, and Other Engagements in this Vicinity who are Buried near this ...

Eleventh Corps

Army of the Potomac

Army of the Potomac

Eleventh Corps

Major General Oliver O. Howard

First Division Brigadier General Francis C. Barlow

Brigadier General Adelbert Ames

Second Division Brigadier General Adolph Von Steinwehr

Third Division Major General Carl Schurz

Artillery Brigade Major Thomas W. Osborn

July 1 Schurz's Division ...

Whaleman’s Memorial

“A Dead Whale or a Stove Boat”

(inscription on back) In honor of the whalemen whose skill, hardihood and daring brought fame and fortune to New Bedford and made its name known to every seaport on the globe. • Gift of ...

Marker 19T

Marker 19T (replica)

indicates distance

between here and

Market St. in Phila.

along the Phila.-

Frankford Turnpike

to Morrisville, PA.

Road through Bristol

was finished in 1810

Marker is at the intersection of Radcliffe Street and Walnut Street, on ...

Cherokee County Veterans Monument

World War I

Allen, Landrum •

Allen, Loyd •

Bobo, Jesse •

Burgess, Arthur •

Camp, Oscar •

Chesney, Coke T. •

Collins, Ed •

Crocker, Alexander •

Dickson, Leander T. •

Dowdle, Glenn •

Edwards, Arthur •

Ellis, Grier •

Gallman, Richard •

Godfrey Jay Bee •

Grant, Albert P. •

Hames, Broadus B. •

Hamrick, ...

Jacksonville School / Jacksonville Lodge

Jacksonville School

Jacksonville School, built by the Jacksonville Lodge in 1895, taught the black children of this community until 1936. Grades 1-7, with two teachers, met in two classrooms on the first floor, without electricity or running water. The Jacksonville Community ...

Mac McAnally

Lyman Corbitt “Mac” McAnally, Jr., grew up in Belmont, where he sang and played piano at Belmont First Baptist Church before becoming a session musician and songwriter at the age of fifteen. McAnally wrote and recorded hit songs, their insightful ...

Fort St. Joseph

Built near here in 1686 by the French explorer Duluth, this fort was the second white settlement in lower Michigan. This post guarded the upper end of the vital waterway joining Lake Erie and Lake Huron. Designed to bar English ...

Battle of Boonsboro

Buying Time

Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart faced a difficult assignment: to locate the Union cavalry and prevent it from severing Gen. Robert E. Lee’s avenue of retreat to Williamsport and the Potomac River after the Battle of Gettysburg. The result was ...