If at First You Don't Succeed

Cheyenne, Arapaho and Sioux warriors burned the first Julesburg in early 1865. The second Julesburg was formed here, just outside the Fort Sedgwick Military Reservation. At its peak, the community included a store, blacksmith shop, billiards saloon, stage station and ...

71st New York State Militia

July 21, 1861

11:00 a.m.

2nd Brigade (Burnside), 2nd Division (Hunter)

Army of Northeastern Virginia, USA

71st New York State Militia

Col. Henry P. Martin

"The Alabama 4th, which had long ago expressed, in print, their desire to meet the ...

Battle of the Blue

Erected by G. G. Gage

to the memory of

his comrades who fell at

The Battle of the Blue.

Oct. 22, 1864.

By the blood of these heroes, and

their compatriots, this great

Republic was made to live

2nd Regiment K. S. M.

from Shawnee Co.

Commanded by Col. G. ...

Hatton Ferry

Five miles southwest of here is the Hatton Ferry on the James River which began operating in the 1870s. James A. Brown established the ferry and a store on land first rented and then purchased from S.P. Gantt in 1881. ...

Great Branch School and Teacherage

(Front text)

The Great Branch School, which stood here from 1918 to the early 1960s, was one of the first Rosenwald schools in S.C. A two-room frame school built in 1917-18, it was typical of the rural black schools funded ...

Western State Hospital Historical Cemetery, 1876-1953

Over 3,200 psychiatric patients from Western State Hospital were buried here from 1876 to 1953. Since then, burial has been elsewhere. The graves are marked with numbers for privacy reasons and the stigma of mental illness. These people worked on ...

Patterson & Western Railroad

The narrow gauge railroad winding some 25 miles from Patterson through Del Puerto Canyon operated from Sept. 20, 1916 to August 14, 1920. During World War I, the railroad brought the much needed minerals of magnesite, manganese chrome and quicksilver ...

Ball’s Battlefield

Major Ball’s Squadron 2nd Light Dragoons U.S. Army while escorting Col. Wells 17th U.S. Infantry from Major General Harrison’s headquarters at Fort Seneca to relieve Major Croghan of the command of Fort Stephenson for alleged insubordination in refusing to evacuate ...

Point Plantation / Richmond Plantation

Point Plantation

In 1715, John Vanderhorst purchased 540 acres known as the Point for ?360. So began a long line of ownership by this well-known Colonial family. By 1740, John’s son Joseph and 29 slaves lived at the Point ...

Pierates Cruze / Pierates Cruze Gardens

Pierates Cruze

The Pierates Cruze property, once part of the Hilliardsville tract, was a private residence and garden. The property changed hands several times before it was purchased and named by the Osgood family in 1928. The Osgoods transformed ...