The McCarty Neighborhood

William Scott and Frances Brown McCarty began laying out a neighborhood here in 1927. By 1950, influential Dalton residents had established one of the city’s earliest subdivisions. McCarty residents pioneered and maintained the Dalton carpet and textile industry whose products ...

Jackson's Headquarters

John B. White House

(Preface): On January 1, 1862, Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson led four brigades west from Winchester, Va., to secure Romney in the fertile South Branch Valley on the North Western Turnpike. He attacked and occupied Bath ...

The Burlington Zephyrs / Articulated Trains

The Burlington Zephyrs

The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy introduced the three-car Zephyr, the first in a series of lightweight stainless steel streamliners, in 1934. The Zephyr (later called Pioneer Zephyr) captured national attention with an initial Denver-Chicago run of 13 hours, ...

Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial

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Bartholomew County

Veterans Memorial

Dedicated May 30, 1997

The Bartholomew County Memorial for

Veterans is a tribute to those living and

dead who answered the Nations Call in

the conflicts of the twentieth century.

[[ Inscribed 1918 ...

8th U.S. Heavy Artillery (Colored)

During February 1864, the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army, Lorenzo Thomas, under the direction of the Secretary of War, Edwin L. Stanton, authorized the recruitment of African Americans by the Union Army in Kentucky. The 8th United States Heavy ...

Union Headquarters

Because its location at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers, and at the northern terminus of the railroad, Paducah was a strategic location throughout the War.

Large numbers of troops and supplies passed through Paducah on their way ...

The Site of Carteret Bastion

The Plan of Charles Town

Prepared by Edward Crisp about 1704, gives the

location of the several Bastions

A. Granville

B. Craven

C. Cartaret

D. Colleton

E. Ashley

F. Blake

G. The Half Moon

I. Johnson's Cover'd Half Moon

L. ...

Headquarters Reserve Corps

Headquarters

Reserve Corps.

Major General Gordon Granger.

Sept. 20, 1863, 2P.M.

Marker can be reached from Glenn-Kelly Road..

Courtesy hmdb.org

Earliest Church In Hartford

Organized on June 30, 1888 by thirteen charter members as Dundee Missionary Baptist Church. The congregation originally worshipped in a brush arbor on this present site. The first church building was erected from pine slabs in the summer of 1886. ...

Dr. Welborn Barton and Louisa Adeline Barton

A graduate of the medical department of Kentucky's Transylvania University, South Carolina native Dr. Wellborn Barton (1821-1883) came to Texas in the late 1840s. After two years of practicing medicine in Bastrop County, he returned to South Carolina to wed ...