Waterborn Services Memorial

Dedicated to the men whom have given their lives in the Waterborn services.

Navy, Marine Corps, & Coast Guard

Marker can be reached from SW Water Street near Hamilton Blvd.

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Great Sauk (Sac) Trail

(east-west through this point)

Part of a transcontinental trail

used by prehistoric peoples of

North America, it passed through

modern Detroit, Rock Island and

Davenport in the Midwest.

The trail was important

into the 19th century.

Marker is at the intersection of Van Buren Street and 73rd Avenue ...

The Battle of Belmont

A State Divided

North and west of this location, the Battle of Belmont was fought on November 7, 1861. It was the first battle in which Ulysses S. Grant commanded an army. He had recently been promoted to Brigadier General and ...

Battle at Stones River

December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863

Stones River National Battlefield preserves some key portions of the ground where two great armies of Americans - some 81,000 men - clashed with each other. Their bitter, three-day struggle erupted on New Year's ...

The Hiram Embry Plantation

500 ft. W. stood the ante-bellum residence of Hiram H. Embry (1805-1877), a notable landmark during the battle of Peachtree Cr.

At 4 P.M., July 20, 1864, Walthall’s div. [CS] advanced N. on this road to attack the Federal line above ...

At the State Fair on these Grounds

At the State Fair on these Grounds

In 1859

Near this Spot

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Made an address

This tablet as a reminder of that event

was erected

under the auspices of the Old Settlers Club of Milwaukee County in 1928

N.C. Education Association

Organized in 1884 as

N.C. Teachers Assembly

in the White Sulphur

Springs Hotel. Building

was one mile northwest.

Marker is on Depot Street (North Carolina Route 1247) near Montgomery Street.

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Stones River National Cemetery

Established June 23, 1865

Union dead from this battlefield and Middle Tennessee are buried here. Of the more than 6,100 Union burials, 2,562 are known but to God. Men and women who gave their lives in other wars or who have ...

The DeGress Battery

July 22, 1864. Light Battery H, 1st Ill. (four 20-pounders), Capth. Francis DeGress, was posted here on right of M.L.Smith’s div., Logan’s 15th A.C. Shells from these guns are said to have been the first to fall in Atlanta.

Late afternoon, ...

Federal Signal Station

July 22, 1864. When 15th A.C. troops moved W. from line (at Candler St.) to the vacated Confederate line at the Troup Hurt house (at DeGress Ave.), a signal station was established by Lt. Samuel Edge in a tall pine ...