Glidden State Bank

Glidden State Bank

Circa 1905

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Nominated by

Jerry Hellenbrand - 2006

Marker is on East First Street (County Highway N) east of North Grant Street, on the left when traveling east. ...

War Comes to the Blackwater

During the first three years of the War Between the States, the Franklin railhead was the terminus of the Blackwater - Chowan corridor. The Confederate commissary used this route to deliver the millions of pounds of goods from eastern North ...

Hood’s Middle Tennessee Campaign and The Battle for Decatur

“A Hard Nut To Crack”

Following the fall of Atlanta on September 2, 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood, Commander of the Army of Tennessee, began a series of maneuvers against the Union line of supply running from Atlanta through Northwest ...

Battle Of Talladega

Nov. 9, 1813

Here Andrew Jackson led Tennessee Volunteers and friendly Indians to victory over hostile “Red Sticks.”

This action rescued friendly Creeks besieged in Fort Leslie.

Creek Indian War 1813 - 1814.

Marker is at the intersection of East Battle Street and Court ...

Rathmoyle Cemetery

Rathmoyle Cemetery is unique in that it is the property of the parish and is maintained solely by the local population.

The site appeas on the 1st edition of the 6 inch O.S. series of maps for Co. Roscommon as a ...

The Battle at Chalk Bluff

A State Divided

The Battle at Chalk BluffDown the hill from this marker is the place where four brigades of Confederates, led by Brig. Gen. John Sappington Marmaduke, crossed the St. Francis into the safety of Arkansas on May 1-2, 1863. ...

Walnut Grove Plantation

Charles and Mary Moore built the Manor House in 1765 1½ miles SE on land granted by George III in 1763. They founded Rocky Spring Academy (1770-1850) the first in Spartanburg County. In a raid in 1780 "Bloody" Bill Cunningham, ...

“Kate Barry”

1½ miles SE is Walnut Grove, home of Margaret Catherine Moore Barry (1752–1823). Local tradition says she was known as “Kate Barry” and acted as a scout for the Patriots before the Battle of Cowpens, Jan. 17, 1781. With her ...

Battle of Franklin

“Jumping out of bed”

The war seemed far from Franklin when Union forces captured Roanoke Island and the North Carolina Sounds in February 1862. In May, however, when they occupied Norfolk and Suffolk to control both coastal Virginia and North Carolina, ...

The Blackwater Line

“That little stream has ... saved us”

To protect Richmond from a Union attack from Suffolk, Confederate authorities fortified the Blackwater River in 1862. You are standing on the Blackwater Line. The intermittent earthworks stretched fifty miles from north of Zuni ...