Gadsden Municipal Amphitheatre

(Legion Park Bowl)

Built of local sandstone in 1935 on land obtained from the American Legion Post No. 5 this municipal amphitheatre seating about 1600 was constructed for staging theatrical and sporting events. Gadsden architect Paul W. Hofferbert designed the open-air ...

Site of Captain Overton W. Barret’s battery of Missouri.

Because of this elevation, Barret’s troops were able to communicate with Kennesaw Mountain by signal. Also this site was a fort in Atlanta city defense works.

July - August, 1864

In Commemoration - CLARK Equipment Company

Marker is on Northside Drive ...

Battle of Shiloh

Apr. 6-7, 1862

4 mi. N.E., Albert Sidney Johnston's Army of the Mississippi (CS), marching north from Corinth, attacked and partly overran U.S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee (US), which was en route by river to destroy the (CS) base. Arrival ...

Railroad Brakes / Westinghouse Automatic Air Brakes

Railroad Brakes

Early railroad cars had hand-operated brakes. A lever (and later a brake wheel) near the top of each car applied the brakes only on that individual car. The engineer directed brakemen to apply or release brakes by whistle signals; ...

Battle of Plattsburgh Bay

Throughout the War of 1812, British forces targeted Lake Champlain as an invasion route. United States Navy Lieutenant Thomas Macdonough was able to confine them in the Richelieu River of Quebec throughout the summer of 1813. American shipbuilders spent the ...

Desert Power & Water Co.

1907-1911

Among largest steam generating

plants of its time on

Pacific Coast

National Register of Historic Places

Marker can be reached from Andy Devine Avenue (Business Interstate 40).

Courtesy hmdb.org

United States Army

Established Camp Beale's Springs about one mile north, March 25, 1871. For the protection of settlers and travelers on northern route. Served as Hualapais Indian Agency. Military Camp abandoned April 6, 1874.

Marker can be reached from Andy Devine Road (Business ...

Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates

Carolina Legends

The great tap dancer Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates began his career in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. After a cotton gin accident took his leg, many felt his life was over. Through perseverance and determination, Peg Leg Bates is known ...

Hickenlooper's Battery

5th Ohio Light Artillery - Prentiss' Division

U.S.

Hickenlooper's Battery,

5th Ohio Lt. Art., Prentiss' (6th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery, with three guns, was in action here at 4.30 P.M. April 6, 1862.

Marker is on Hamburg-Savannah ...

Governor William Yates Atkinson

(1854-1899)

Born in Meriwether County, William Yates Atkinson settled in Newnan after receiving a law degree from the University of Georgia in 1877. Elected to the Georgia General Assembly in 1886, he served four terms in the House, becoming Speaker in ...