Scientific Research

World War II

Before the United States entered World War II, German U-boats again inflicted death and destruction on the seas by sinking Allied ships as they had in World War I. In January 1942, the month after the United States ...

Site of Lutie School

The community of Lutie, named for early settler Lutie Gresham Templeton. Traces its history to 1909. Two years previously, local citizens had formed the Pleasant Valley School about one mile northeast of the townsite. Community leaders moved the school to ...

Site of Rose Cottage

A look at Civil War Corinth

Among Corinth’s countless stories of personal wartime tragedy is that of General Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate Commander of the War in the West , who made his headquarters in Rose Cottage. After Johnston received a ...

Site of Duck Creek Presbyterian Church

In 1733 a charter was granted to “a dissenting congregation” of Scots and Irish Presbyterians who had settled in this area. A Meeting House was subsequently erected at this location. The Reverend Thomas Evans conducted the first service here on ...

Father Junipero Serra / Fray Junipero Serra

Marker 1:

Father Junipero Serra

Donated by Wm Hannon Foundation

Commemorating San Fernando Mission

Sept 1797 - Sept 1997

Marker 2:

Fray Junipero Serra

1713-1784

Founder of the California Missions

In Memory of Eugenie B. Hannon

Marker is on ...

Ortt Fort Saint Clair Memorial

Erected October 1922

by

Wm. H. Ortt.

Sacred to the memory

of the soldiers who

fought and died in the

battle with the Indians

at

Fort Saint Clair

November 6 1792.

Wilcox

Courtesy hmdb.org

Petrified Conifer Tree / Petrified Lycopod Tree Stump

Plaque A

85-90 Million Years Old

Possibly a Bald Cypress

from the Cretaceous Period

or the Age of Dinosaurs

Plaque B

325 Million Years Old

A Member of the Giant Club Mosses

from the early Coal Age

Marker is on S. Main Street.

Courtesy ...

Home of Allen McLane

For many years this home was the property of Colonel Allen McLane, statesman and hero of the American Revolution.

Born in Philadelphia August 8, 1746, McLane had moved to Delaware by 1769. His military career began when he was commissioned as ...

Cold Water Falls

World's Largest Man-Made Natural Stone Waterfall

to be known in existence

80 feet wide, 48 feet tall

1,780 tons of Colbert County Sandstone

4,320,000 gallons of water per day passes over falls

Largest stone weights 77,000 pounds

Marker is on S. Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of Old Asbury Methodist Church

The roots of Methodism in this community can be traced to the organization of a local “society” in the 1770’s. Meetings were held in private homes before a frame structure was built here circa 1786 on land provided by Col. ...