Ancient Buried Forest

Two Creeks Buried Forest State Natural Area

Located on a high, eroding bluff along Lake Michigan, Two Creeks is an ancient forest of pine, hemlock, and spruce that established about 12,000 years ago. During various glacial advances and retreats water, silt, ...

The Xzanders G. McFarland House and McFarland Gap

Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail

Mr. Xzanders Gordon McFarland of Walker County(Rossville Georgia) was a slave holder. So when the Civil War took his two oldest sons into the army, he gathered his slaves, his four teenage daughters and his stock and ...

First British Columbia School

On this site Rev. R.J. Staines and wife opened the first British Columbia School in 1849. In the same building of Fort Victoria the first Legislative Assembly met August 12th 1856.

[Plaque below]

This plaque unveiled by Honorable Nancy Hodges, first woman ...

Folck's Mill

Here in Evitts Creek Valley

on August 1, 1864,

General McCausland's Confederate

cavalry, returning after burning

Chambersburg, was surprised by

General Kelley's Union troops from

Cumberland. The Confederates

were repulsed and retreated across

the Potomac at Oldtown.

Marker can be reached from Ali Ghan Road NE.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ratcliff CCC Camp

J.H. Ratcliff's 1880s sawmill and village here gave way to major timber industry operations that by the early 1930s had decimated Houston County's densest virgin forest. As part of federal efforts to restore the nation's natural resources, Civilian Conservation Corps ...

Fort Victoria

The pavement design near this plaque marks the location of the east gate of Fort Victoria, built in 1843. From here the wooden stockade stretched northward to the bastion and southward toward what is now Broughton Street. The plaques in ...

Fort McAllister

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East 4.5 miles, on Great Ogeechee River, Fort McAllister was built 1861-62 to guard the "back door" to Savannah. During 1862-63, it repulsed 7 attacks by armored vessels, some mounting 15-inch guns. Dec. 13, 1864, its small garrison ...

Fort Howard Stockade

853 degrees north 45 degrees, 7 minutes east, from this tablet, stands a flag pole, marking the southeast corner of the stockade of Fort Howard; occupied by United States troops August 1816, and almost continuously until 1852. On this ...

Owl Cafe and Tourist Hotel

On December 28th of 1881 while crossing 5th St., Virgil Earp was ambushed and shot. Would be assassins hidden in a new building under construction opened fire with shotguns. Virgil was severely wounded. He survived, but lost the use of ...

The Blizzard of 1888

Known as the “Great White Hurricane,” the Blizzard of 1888 was one of the most devastating weather events in recorded history. Affecting coastal states from Virginia to Maine, this paralyzing storm resulted in widespread death and destruction. With its large ...