Cowboy Cemetery

Marker Front:

On September 12, 1878, the bodies of Reuban Bristow and Fred Clark were found near here. It was believed they had been killed by Northern Cheyenne Indians led by Chief Dull Knife. Bristow and Clark were cowboys hauling salt ...

Dr. Welborn Barton and Louisa Adeline Barton

A graduate of the medical department of Kentucky's Transylvania University, South Carolina native Dr. Wellborn Barton (1821-1883) came to Texas in the late 1840s. After two years of practicing medicine in Bastrop County, he returned to South Carolina to wed ...

Bank of Washburn

1890

The Bank of Washburn is a unique variation of the Romanesque Revival Style designed by architects Conover & Porter of Ashland, Wisconsin. Built in less than one year, the building was fashioned from brownstone quarried at Houghton Point located north ...

Gardendale, Alabama

Side A

When Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Nation at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, the subsequent Treaty of Fort Jackson and other treaties that followed ceded Indian land that made up most

of what is now Alabama. Abraham ...

Major Archibald Johnson Rose

1830 - 1903

Before migrating to Texas, A. J. Rose made a fortune in the 1849 California Gold Rush. In 1857 he and his wife Sallie (Austin) brought their family from Missouri to Travis County, Texas. Later they settled in San ...

Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall

(1907-1992)

Ellis Gibbs Arnall was born in Newnan on March 20, 1907, and was one of the most influential and progressive Governors in Georgia’s history. After serving in the state legislature and as Georgia's Attorney General, Arnall was Georgia’s Governor from ...

Ireland's Third Brigade

Second Division

[Front Side of Marker]

80th New York Infantry

102nd New York Infantry

137th New York Infantry

149th New York Infantry

Ireland's - Third Brigade

Geary's - Second Division

Slocum's - Twelfth Corps

Hooker's Command

11th and 12th Corps

Army of the Potomac

November 25, 1863

[Reverse Side of Marker]

The New York ...

The Steamboat Era

Size: 82 Feet Long by 24 Feet High

There were few roads in the Wiregrass in 1800s - and the roads that were here were little more than twin rutted paths. The main transportation in the region was the steamboats on ...

Bartram's Trail

William Bartram American's first native born artist- naturalists, passed through Russell County during the Revolutionary era, making the first scientific notations of its flora, fauna and inhabitants. As the appointed botanist of Britain's King George III, he traveled 2,400 mile ...

John Bell House

The 18th-century front section of this structure is the oldest surviving wood building in Dover. It is being restored to serve as an interpretive center for the First State heritage Park.The 20th-century rear additions will be removed to return the ...