Natchez Trace

Crossing the Highway

Crossing the highway here, this famous road followed ancient Indian trails used by the travelers between Natchez and Nashville. It was built in 1801 by Army Engineers.

Officially "The Columbian Road", it was for many years the only ...

The Old State House

“ . . . there the child Independence was born.”

Built in 1713, the Old State House was the seat of government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. In this building the Royal Governors, the Colonial Courts, and the Provincial Assembly ...

A County Older Than The State, St. Clair County

Created in 1818 in first session of Alabama Territorial Legislature

from lands ceded by Creek Indian Nation in Treaty of Ft. Jackson, 1814.

Named for Gen. Arthur St. Clair, hero of Revolution, governor of Northwest Territory.

First settlers from Tennessee, Georgia - ...

Patee House - 1858

The Pony Express

Patee House – 1858

In this National Historic Landmark were located the offices of the Pony Express, founded by Russell, Majors & Waddell; the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad and the Civil War offices of the U.S. Provost Marshall. ...

The Patee House

The Patee House

has been designated a

Registered National Historic Landmark

under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

This site posseses exceptional value in commemorating

and illustrating the history of the United States

U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1964

Patee House ...

Assassination Site of Sgt. E. Frank Harrison

In 1870 St. Clair Co. was still under Radical Republican Reconstruction. On August 20, 1870 honorable men of the County (former Confederates) had decided to hold the first Democratic Convention after the War Between the States. The meeting would be ...

The Patee House In The Civil War

A State Divided: The Civil War in Missouri

The Hotel Patee House opened in 1858 as St. Joseph’s finest hotel. It later served as the national Pony Express headquarters, the local Union Army headquarters, a women’s college and a factory. The ...

The Battlefield In 1862

Command and Communications at Lee's Headquarters - Signaling At Stuart's Hill

(Left Panel):

The Battlefield in 1862

At the time of the Civil War, the area of the Battlefield was largely agricultural. Fields and pastures alternated with woods, while modest farmsteads and middling ...

The Battle Begins

Mid-afternoon on August 28, 1862, Union soldiers from General Rufus King's division rest along Pageland Lane awaiting orders for them to continue marching south seven miles to Manassas Junction.

Late afternoon, orders arrived prompting King to return to the Warrenton Turnpike ...

Morris & Essex Line – Netcong Station

In 1854 the Morris and Essex Railroad Branch of the greater Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad acquired a 6-acre tract between the Morris Turnpike (now Ledgewood Avenue) and the Stanhope-Flanders Road (now Flanders Road) straddling its newly completed rail line, ...