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167th Infantry / Alabama’s Own

(4th Alabama)

An Alabama regiment was formed in 1836 to defend Fort Foster in Florida. Same unit, designated the 1st Alabama Volunteers ten years later, served in Mexican War. Mustered again May 4, 1861 as the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment, it ...

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The First Presbyterian Church

Congregation organized in 1817. The Sanctuary was built in 1828-29 and enlarged in 1851. The Romanesque Revival rear addition was built in 1900 in honor of Joseph Stratton, Pastor, 1843-1903. The church and its companion manse on South Rankin Street ...

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37th Division The Buckeye Division

World War I / World War II & Korea

World War I

Camp Sheridan was the site of the August 1917 organization of the Buckeye Division, made up of Ohio National Guardsmen who previously had been serving on the Mexican Border.

After training, ...

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The Barracks

 

This building housed army enlisted men serving in the artillery or infantry from the 1830s until Fort Trumbull was downgraded to a supply post, in 1907. Built of rough-cut granite, the original stone section dates from about 1830, the ...

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Historic Springfield Baptist Church

Springfield Baptist Church was established on January 27, 1864 prior to the abolition of slavery, and is among the first African-American churches founded in Middle Georgia. Enslaved workers purchased land from Mrs. Nancy Bickers and began monthly meetings. Levi Thornton, ...

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The Burning of Greensborough

During the early years of its settlement, Greensborough and Greene County suffered greatly from depredations committed by Indians who occupied the West bank of the Oconee River about eight miles from here. Most tragic of these was the destruction of ...

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Tabby Seawall Remnants

18 - 22 Limehouse Street

A network of seawalls constructed of tabby, a locally made mixture of crushed oyster shells, sand and lime based mortar, was constructed in the 18th and 19th century along the Charleston waterfront.

This system of ...

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Ten - Inch Smooth Bore Columbaid Cannon

This cannon and its mate

to the left have been

identified as two-thirds

of Fort Sumter's "Three Gun

Battery" of October, 1863.

Marker is on East Battery Street near Murray Boulevard, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Site Of Birthplace Of Horace Bushnell

Site Of Birthplace Of

Horace Bushnell

April 14, 1802

Feb. 17, 1876

Noted Theologian For Whom

Hartford's

Bushnell Park

And

Bushnell Hall

Were Named

Marker is at the intersection of Bantam Road (U.S. 202) and Bantam Lake Road, on the left when traveling west on Bantam Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Cobb's Kentucky Battery.

Cobb's Artillery Battalion

Cobb's Kentucky Battery.

Four 12 Pounder Napoleon.

Capt. Robert Cobb's Artillery Battalion.

Breckinridge's (Bate's) Div., Breckinridge's Corps.

Lieut. Frank P. Gracey, Commanding.

1st Lieut. R.B. Mathews, 2d Lieut. B.A. James.

Nov. 25th, 1863. 4 P.M.

Th battery was detached from the battalion on the morning ...

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