Lamar Electric Membership Corporation Incorporating Board of Dir

REA Project 75 was chartered in February 1937 and was energized August 11, 1938, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It became Lamar Electric Membership Corporation. This day, January 23, 2005, as we change the name to Southern Rivers Energy, the ...

Strategy and Terrain

By closing the road and river, the Americans forced the British into rough, wooded lands where they could not use their infantry and artillery to best advantage.

Marker is on Park Tour Road, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

M-60A1 Patton Tank

This M-60A1 Patton tank presented by the New Haven American Legion

Weighs 60 tons

Top speed 30 mph

4 person crew

155mm canon

7.62mm & 50 cal. machine guns

M-85 anti-aircraft guns

Saw action in Yom Kipper and Desert ...

Garrard's Cavalry at Stone Mtn. Depot

July 18, 1864. Garrard’s cav. div. & Lightburn’s 15th A.C. (US) brigade moved from Browning’s Court House (TUCKER), to this vicinity & destroyed 2 miles of Ga. R.R. track, several culverts, & the water tank.

July 19. Long’s & Miller’s brigades, ...

St. Leo’s Catholic Church

Catholicism was first introduced to this

region in 1540 by the priests who accompanied

Hernando DeSoto. Napoleonic exiles of the

Vine and Olive Colony held religious services

and attempted to establish a Catholic mission

in Demopolis in 1817. Services were held in

homes and in a ...

Battle of Culloden

On April 19, 1865, a part of Wilson`s Federal Raiders, moving toward Macon, encountered the "Worrill Grays" near this spot. The "Grays," numbering less than 200 men, fought a magnificent battle, greatly outnumbered. After a two-hour battle they finally yielded ...

Ninth Massachusetts Battery

Ninth Mass. Battery

Capt. Bigelow

July 3d and 4th, 1863.

Two guns

Lieutenant Milton Comdg.

Only officer and guns

effective after engagement

on Trostle's farm, July 2nd, 1863

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

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Battery F Fifth U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery F Fifth U.S. Artillery

Six 10 pounder Parrotts

Lieut. Leonard Martin Commanding

July 2 Arrived on the afternoon with the Corps and held in reserve.

July 3 Brought up to Ziegler's Grove in rear ...

Flomaton, Alabama

Front

As railroads were reconstructed following the Civil War, a junction of north-south and east-west lines was established along the Alabama-Florida border near the confluence of Big Escambia Creek and the Conecuh-Escambia River. A settlement followed which became knows as Reuterville, ...

Decatur and The Civil War in North Alabama

“A Hard Nut To Crack”

Decatur had close to 800 residents in 1860, not many more than the 606 persons counted in the 1850 census. Included in the 1860 census were 267 white males, 206 white females, three free blacks including ...