Dodd's Creek Bridge

One of many patented truss designs developed by American inventors and engineers in the mid- to late-19th century, this 87-foot lenticular truss bridge represents an unusual truss type in the United States. The lenticular design features a curved top and ...

Home of Wellborn Barton

Home of Wellborn Barton 1821-1883; Pioneer physician of this region. For many years a trustee of Salado College, built 1866. (John Hendrickson, Contractor)

Old military road and Chisholm cattle trail passed here.

Marker is on N Main St just from Rock Creek ...

The 1st Rhode Island Regiment and the Battle of Rhode Island

The 1st Rhode Island Regiment of the Continental Line

1775 – 1783

The war for American Independence was a long and arduous struggle that demanded much of the American people. Rhode Island responded to those demands with patriotic fervor, enduring the ...

Regions Bank

This building which was completed in 1983 is an accurate replica of the local historical mansion known as The Forks of Cypress. The original mansion, completed in 1822 by James and Sarah Jackson on a knoll five miles from Florence ...

Veatch's Brigade

Hurlbut's Division

U.S.

Army of the Tennessee

25th Ind., 14th Ill., 15th Ill.,

Veatch's (2d) Brigade,

Hurlbut's (4th) Division.

On Monday, April 7, 1862, these regiments were in reserve behind the 1st brigade until noon. They were then moved via Ross' headquarters, Duncan House, to McCook's ...

Jesse K. Dubois House

This was the home of Jesse K. Dubois and his family from 1859 to 1864. Dubois was the Illinois State Auditor, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln and his most important political ally in this neighborhood. One of the Dubois ...

Louisa Adeline (Addie) Barton

When Addie Barton (1858-1921) was seven years old, her parents, Dr. Welborn and Louisa Barton, moved to Salado so their children could attend Salado College. Upon graduation, Addie became a teacher. She felt called to become a missionary in 1883 ...

Politics in the Neighborhood

Just Imagine!

On August 8, 1860, an exuberant political rally parade passed by the Lincoln home, including:

180 train cars of Lincoln supporters

28 oxen pulling a mammoth wagon

21 Wide Awake Clubs (groups of young pro-Lincoln men)

10 decorated caravans of ladies

1 full ...

Hoover Dam Turbine Runner

This cast steel turbine runner (water wheel), which is 14.2 feet in diameter and weighs over 34 tons, powered the N-7 generator at Hoover Dam Power Plant from 1944 to 1982. The function of a turbine runner is to convert ...

Battle of Fort Sullivan

[Side A]

On June 28, 1776, a British and Loyalist force seeking to capture Charleston advanced to Sullivan's Island with 9 ships and 2,500-3,000 infantry. The American defenders, 435 men under Col. William Moultrie of the 2nd S.C. Regiment, ...