J.W. and Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Interpretive Trail

Native plants played a significant role in the daily life of the Creek Indian civilization that inhabited the Chattahoochee Valley until relocation to Oklahoma in the 19th century. During the Woodland Period, the local inhabitants were skilled hunters and gatherers ...

Hicksford Raid

On 7 Dec. 1864, Union Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren led 28,000 men south from Petersburg to destroy the Petersburg Railroad between Stony Creek and the Meherrin River railroad bridge at Hicksford, thereby severing the Confederate supply line. Two days ...

UPS - Celebrating 100 years of Service

August 28, 2007

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of UPS, employees gathered here at the company’s birthplace to honor, celebrate and reaffirm UPS’s commitment to serving communities around the world.

Marker is on 2nd Avenue near South Main Street.

Courtesy ...

Site of the Smaller Fort

Site of the smaller fort to protect the whites in the Indian War of 1855. A Stockade stretched from here to the main blockhouse at the foot of Cherry Street.

Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street and ...

Fort Screven

1897 - 1945

Has been placed on the

National Register of

Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

May 25, 1982

Marker is at the intersection of N. Campbell Ave. and Soloman Ave., on the left when traveling east on N. ...

Information Booth

1897- 1977

Dedicated June 16, 1977, the Pioneer Square information booth was constructed from portions of an ornate elevator cab from the Maynard Building. Idle for years, the cab was donated by Strand, Inc., and now continues in service to ...

Ford's Depot

The Destruction Begins

In June 1864, to deny Gen. Robert E. Lee the use of the South Side R.R. and the Richmond and Danville R.R., Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sent Gen. James H. Wilson and Gen. August V Kautz south of ...

The Gates of Hell

Auguste Rodin

I have loved these awesome doors since that winter day in 1949 when I first stood below them outside the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia and was terrified at the prospect of writing my dissertation on the Gates of Hell. ...

32nd Indiana Infantry

Gibson's Brigade - McCook's Division

(front)

32d

Regiment

Infantry,

Commanded by

Col. August Willich,

6th Brigade -- Col. W.H. Gibson --

2nd Division -- Gen. McCook--

Army of the Ohio.

Indiana

(back)

32d Infantry,

Commanded by Col. August Willich.

This regiment arrived on the battlefield at 10 a.m, April 7th, 1862. Was ordered ...

Schumacher Farm

Dane County Park

"To be preserved as a living history museum of early agricultural life"

This was the vision of Marcella Schumacher Pendall, daughter of early area settlers. Schumacher Farm Park began when she donated 40 acres of the Schumacher homestead to ...