Site of Original Oak Swamp Church

(Baptist)

Framing for this church had begun at Peckham Street, when disgruntled Oak Swamp people took away the timbers in the night and raised the church here.

Marker is at the intersection of Pleasant Street and Chestnut Street, on the right when ...

Davie County War Memorial

front center

Dedicated in Honor of All Davie County Veterans and to the Memory of Those Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice for Our Freedom

front left

Spanish American War (?)

World War I (18)

Vietnam (9)

front left

World War II (53)

Korean War (2)

Beirut (1)

back

Civil War (259 ...

"Battle Cross"

podium beside statue

This arrangement of a fallen soldier's boots, rifle and helmet known as a BATTLE CROSS began in World War I. Since then, when a serviceman or woman is lost on the battlefield, comrades erect a Battle Cross to ...

Second Yadkin County Jail

c. 1892

Second Yadkin County Jail

c. 1892

Has Been Placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

by the United Stated Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Hemlock Avenue and Van Buren Street, on the left when traveling east on ...

Daniel Bullock- Samuel Baker Sawmill site 1750-1850

Plain St. now crosses what was once sawmill pond.

On a cold New Years day in 1830, 14 new converts to the nearby Oak Swamp Baptist Church were baptized by being immersed in the pond through a hole cut in ...

Cheatham's Division

C.S.A.

Right of

Cheatham's Division,

Nov. 25, 1863.

Marker is on North Crest Road north of Portview Place, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort Scott Memorial

This monument was originally located in Land Lot Number 224 in the 21st District of Decatur County, Georgia, 16 miles southwest of Bainbridge and on the site of Fort Scott built in 1816 and abandoned in 1821.

It was removed to ...

Conway Community Church

Residents of Conway, established 9 miles south of here in 1905, attended non-denominational services in a relocated schoolhouse until this union church building was completed in 1912. It became an important gathering place for the Conway community and housed regular ...

Finch-Lord-Nelson and the Founding of Panhandle City

Cattle firm that had brought first Herefords to region — Lue Finch, W.H. Lord, O.H. Nelson — in 1887 promoted Panhandle City, as railroad line approached. They sent in ten cowboys to stake claims around city, which prospered as county ...

Eclipse Windmill Patented 1867

George Tyng, White Deer Lands, drilled first water well 1887 near present townsite White Deer after unsuccessful attempt in 1886 by Col. B. B. Groom, Francklyn Land & Cattle Company.

Windmill indispensable factor in settlement plains of Texas. Eclipse Mill slow ...