Tolomato Street

El Rosario Redoubt

For three hundred years

up to 1885

this street

then called Tolomato

was the west boundary

of St. Augustine

protected by

seven redoubts

On this site stood

El Rosario

built of stone

defending the

governors residence

Marker ...

Battle of Gilgal Church

June 15-17, 1864

U.S.: Maj. Gen. Daniel Butterfield. 3rd Div. 20th Corps. Army of the Cumberland.

C.S.: Maj. Gen. Patrick R Cleburne. Cleburne’s Div. Hood’s Corps. Army of Tennessee.

Marker is on Kennesaw Kue West Road NW 0.2 miles east of Due West ...

Lee County Monument to the Confederate Dead

(West face)

CSA

In Memory

of

Lee County's

Confederate Soldiers

Heros

Confederate Dead

(East Face)

Lest We Forget

Erected by the people

of Lee County

Through the efforts of

Lottie Green Chapter of

U.D.C.

A.D. 1913

Marker is on South Main Street (U.S. 15), on the right when traveling ...

Hatcher's Run

Lee's right wing was defended by earthworks on this stream, here and to the east. These works were unsuccessfully attacked by Union forces, February 5-7, 1865. On the morning of April 2, 1865, they were stormed by Union troops.

Marker is ...

Battle of Long Cane

About four miles southeast is the site of the American Revolutionary Battle of Long Cane. On December 12, 1780, Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Allen and a British force of 400-500 men defeated Colonel Elijah Clarke and 100 Americans, an advanced detachment ...

National Negro Opera Company

Here at the Cardwell School of Music, this first national Black opera company was founded in 1941 by Mary Cardwell Dawson. Noted for its musical genius, it performed for 21 years in Pittsburgh, Washington, New York, and other cities.

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The Rainey Plantation

July 18, 1864. The marching columns of the Army of the Tenn. (US), having diverged 5.5 mi. N.W., rejoined here when Dodge's 16th A.C. moved E. from Old Cross Keys to Rainey's. Blair's 17th A.C. moved 1.75 mi. S. on ...

The Great Steel Strike of 1919

In the largest work stoppage to that date, over 350,000 U.S. workers went off the job. Rev. Adalbert Kazincy, pastor of St. Michael's here, championed the strikers and provided the church as a meeting place. The strike failed after 15 ...

Darby Plantation

The old Marietta Rd. joined the Sandtown Rd. here -- 1864.

June 17-19. Geary’s (2d) Div., 20th A.C., supporting 13th N.Y. & Pa. E batteries, were N. of rd. & Cox’s (3d) Div. 23d. A.C., supporting 1st Ohio Bat. D. [US] ...

Confederate Cemetery

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Stonewall Cemetery is located on part of a plot given as a burial site by Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin when he founded Griffin in 1840. Several hundred Confederate and one Union soldier, casualties of the Battles of Atlanta and Jonesboro, ...