Battle of Campbell's Station

The Federal Gen. Ambrose Burnside, pursued by Gen. James Longstreet from Lenoir's Station via Concord, eluded an attempt by Gen. Lafayette McLaws, C.S.A., coming from Loudon via the Hotchkiss Valley and Kingston Roads, to head him off at the junction ...

Ohio 5th Battery Light Artillery

Commanded by Capt. Andrew Hickenlooper -- Prentiss' Division

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Ohio 5th Battery Light Artillery

Commanded by

Capt. Andrew Hickenlooper

Prentiss'(6th) Division

Army of the Tennessee

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This battery went into action at 7.30 a.m., April 6, 1862,in Spain field. At 9 a.m. it retired to this place ...

Hickman Bluff Stabilization Project

1996 - 2000

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Memphis District

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell

Congressional Sponsor

Mayors of Hickman

Judy C. Powell

John P. Shuff

Richard H. White, M.D.

Project Design: D'Appolonia, Inc.

Prime Contractor: Schunbel Foundation Co.

Subcontractor: Coffey Construction Co.

After a century of instability, erosion of Hickman Bluff caused ...

The Madden Branch Massacre: Anti-Confederate activity in North G

North of here on Madden Branch in Polk County, Tennessee, on November 29, 1864, during the American Civil War, six Georgians trying to enlist in the U.S. Army -- Thomas Bell, Harvey Brewster, James T. Hughes, James B. Nelson, Elijah ...

Rio Grande Theatre

1926

Has been placed on the

National Register of

Historic Buildings

By the

United States Department

Of the Interior

Marker is on North Downtown Mall, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Crowfield Plantation

(Front text)

Crowfield Plantation, on the headwaters of Goose Creek, was originally granted to John Berringer in 1701. John Gibbes (1696-1764), a member of the Royal Assembly, sold it in 1721 to Arthur Middleton (1681-1737), also a member of the ...

Mendota / Sibley House Association

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This wide valley intersection between the two rivers known today as the Minnesota and Mississippi has been a meeting place for people for thousands of years.

The Dakota people lived on these prairielands by the 1700s. They knew this place as ...

Civil War Battle of Mesilla & Major Lynde's Retreat

July 24-27, 1861

On July 24, 1861, Lt. Col. John Robert Baylor led 300 men consisting of two companies of the Second Texas Mounted Rifles, a Texas light-artillery company without its howitzers, an El Paso County scout company, and some ...

Texas Prison System Central State Farm Main Building

Central State Farm's roots trace to the late 1870s, when the original 5235 acres of the sugar plantation here were worked by convict labor. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, public sentiment largely supported a self-sustaining prison system, with ...

Rufus B. Atwood

March 15, 1897 - March 18, 1983

Noted as one of Kentucky's most famous African American citizens, Hickman's Atwood served as the president of Kentucky State College from 1929 to 1962.

During his tenure at the school, Atwood led the battle for ...