Friendship A.M.E. Church

(Front text)

This church, founded during Reconstruction, has been at the same site since 1890. The first sanctuary serving this congregation was located on Hibben Street and built on a lot leased by the Town of Mount Pleasant in 1877. ...

Original Survey of Aiken

The town of Aiken, on land donated by Mr. Beverly M. Rodgers to the S.C. Rail Road in 1834, was laid out around a core of 27 city blocks bounded by Edgefield and Park Aves. and Newberry and Williamsburg Sts. ...

University of Alabama

Endowed by Congress 1819

Ordained by State constitution 1819

And established by

General Assembly 1820

Instruction Begun 1831

Unofficial Training School

Confederate Officers 1861-65

Destroyed by Federal Army

April 4, 1865, Rebuilding Begun 1867

and Reopened 1868.

Marker can be reached from University Boulevard west of 6th Avenue, on the ...

First Confederate Flag Raising in Georgia

On this Courthouse lawn the first Confederate flag raising in Georgia took place March 31, 1861. Judge David B. Harrell of Webster County, Capt. James Pickett of Red Hill, Dr. Harvis Pickett of Weston, with their companies of soldiers, trained ...

African American Medal of Honor Recipients Memorial

[Panel 1:]African American Medal of Honor

Recipients Memorial

The Medal of Honor takes its place in our country as the highest award for military valor. The honor, awarded by the President in the name of Congress, may only be accorded an ...

Druid City Hospital School Of Nursing

Constructed in 1923 through gift of J. T. Horne, this building occupied by Druid City Hospital School of Nursing from 1923 to 1947. Used by University of Alabama from 1951 to 1954 to first state supported collegiate school of nursing ...

Frederick Douglass in Carlisle

Walking Tour Stop 4

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818 and self-taught, became an internationally-renowned reformer and a leading voice in the fight against slavery. Douglass is known to have visited Carlisle on three occasions, although his first visit in ...

Battle of Nacogdoches

(August 2, 1832)

One of the opening actions of the Texas War for Independence, this battle occurred soon after settlers drove out the Mexican garrisons at Anahuac and Velasco. In 1932 Col. Jose De las Piedras, in command of over 300 ...

African Elephant

Loxodonta africana

In Greenville!

Joy eats 2 bales of hay, 25 pounds of grain, 20 pounds of fruits and vegetables, with vitamin supplements added, and browse. Total food consumption is up to 200 pounds each day.

Joy, a female, weighs over 8,000 pounds ...

3-inch Rifles

Civil War Veterans

Sure Fire

"The Yankee 3-inch rifle was a dead shot at any distance under a mile. They could hit the end of a flour barrel more often than miss, unless the gunner got rattled."

- A member of Lumsden's Confederate ...