"...sights and sounds...too horrible to describe..."

Four years after Gettysburg became the county seat in 1800, the first Adams County Courthouse was placed in Lincoln Square (one block to your right). In 1859 this larger building was erected to serve the growing populace.

The arrival of the ...

A.T. & T. Building

Built 1930

This building has been placed on

The National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States Department of the Interior.

A.T.&T. Building

Built 1930

A good example of Spanish Colonial Revival style with Federal Modern influences, the stucco ...

Battle of Chickamauga

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Nine miles west of here on Saturday and Sunday, September 19th and 20th, 1863, the bloody battle of Chickamauga was fought. Here, Federal forces of about 60,000 under Major-General William S. Rosecrans, U.S.A., fought the two day ...

City of Boaz

Side A

Informally called Sparkstown for a period of time, the city of Boaz was officially named after the husband of Ruth, a Biblical character in the Old Testament. Incorporated in March 1897, Boaz quickly began to "set a pace for ...

Battlefield Burials

The depressions to the right of the trail probably represent former graves of Confederate soldiers. The dead of both armies received hasty battlefield burials. Most were disinterred after the war, with the Union dead going to Glendale National Cemetery and ...

Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial

[[ Walk - Way Stones ]]

Bartholomew County

Veterans Memorial

Dedicated May 30, 1997

The Bartholomew County Memorial for

Veterans is a tribute to those living and

dead who answered the Nations Call in

the conflicts of the twentieth century.

[[ Inscribed 1918 ...

First Bird Dog Field Trials

Tennessee State Sportsmen's Association hosted America's first public bird dog field trial near Memphis in 1874. Field trials began at Grand Junction in 1881. Various clubs hosted annual trials here. Grand Junction hosted its first National Field Trial Championship in ...

Nacogdoches Federal Building / Post Office

Designed by U.S. Treasury Department architect James A. Wetmore, this building was erected in 1917-1918 and housed the main city post office until 1964. Sold to the city in 1973, it was the public library until 1997, when it became ...

In Commemoration of Arnold's Expedition to Quebec

One of the most strategic and daring exploits of the patriot cause during the revolution. Part of the troops encamped in the Town of Danvers on the night of September 14, 1775 on their way to Newburyport where they embarked ...

Murdoch of Buckhorn

Harvey Short Murdoch, 1871-1935, came from Brooklyn, N.Y. and, as Field Secretary of E. O. Guerrant’s

Society of Soul Winners founded Witherspoon College, 1902. Became Presbyterian Child Welfare Agency.

Log Cathedral built 1907. Murdoch was pastor until his death. “To Buckhorn and ...