Original Site of Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University

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Original site of Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (now located at Normal, Alabama)

Legislature approved 9 December 1873 "a normal school for the education of colored teachers" in Huntsville. Ex-slave William Hooper Councill founder and first president. Classes began May ...

Barton Street Confederate Monument

This monument is dedicated to honor the memory of the 51 Confederate Soldiers buried here in the Barton Street Cemetery. They died in Fredericksburg, Virginia between the months of October 1861 and March 1862. The Rev. Alfred M. Randolph of ...

The "Hancock Rebels"

Organized in March 1862 by Capt. D.B. Seal at Hobolochitto (now Picayune), the "Hancock Rebels" became Co. C, 38th Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A. Seeing action at Corinth, Iuka, and Vicksburg, the unit was mounted in 1864 and served under Nathan B. ...

Brown's Vineyard

Located at this site, Brown's Vineyard, established 1874, was a popular resort during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The wine, produced on site from scuppernong grapes, was marketed and sold across the United States. The vineyard, which also ...

Bayou Vermilion

Battle of Pinhook Bridge April 17, 1863

Battle of Bayou Vermilion October 9, 1863

We honor the memory of those soldiers who valiantly fought on these banks.

Marker is at the intersection of West Pinhook Road and La Rue France, on the right ...

Commemorate the 1st crossing from east to west and the 1st doubl

To commemorate the first crossing from east to west and the first double crossing of the Atlantic by air accomplished by the British airship R34

which left East Fortune Scotland on July 2nd 1919, landed Mineola Long Island on July ...

The DeButts Family Comes to Maryland - Mount Welby

[Panel 1:] The DeButts Family Comes to Maryland

Samuel DeButts was born in Ireland in 1756. He began a career as a doctor in England and there met and married his wife, Mary Welby, in 1785. Samuel’s medical practice was ...

William Bull Meek / ECV Redivivus-1932

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To Clampatriarch William Bull Meek

Stage Driver - Wells Fargo Agent - Mule Skinner - Treasurer - Merchant

May 6, 1956

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ECV Redivivus

1932

First Grand Council pilgrimage. Fifty years ago today, the Accougheurs of E Clampus Vitus, Redivivus, ...

Battle of Congaree Creek

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On February 15, 1865, as Gen. W.T. Sherman's Federal army advanced to Columbia, Gen. O.O. Howard's Army of the Tennessee found its way blocked by Confederates entrenched behind Congaree Creek and defending the Old State Rd. bridge. Gen. ...

Hurricane Isabel

Hurricane Isabel caused a storm surge at City Point on September 18, 2003. Due to a combination of tropical storm winds and reversing high tides, river levels at City Point rose to 13 feet 10 inches above flood stage resulting ...