Hamilton Plantation

In 1800 James Hamilton, with his partner John Couper, purchased land at Gascoigne Bluff. Under Hamilton’s stewardship, Hamilton Plantation became one of the major St. Simons producers of long-staple cotton. After Hamilton moved to Philadelphia, management oversight was carried out ...

The Pentagon

About 9:30 a.m., September 11, 2001, a hijacked commercial airliner was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia killing 35 active duty, retired and reserve naval personnel, along with other military personnel and innocent civilians. Most of the naval ...

Evergreen Cemetery Pioneers Memorial

This monument erected in memory of those unsung pioneers who helped build the Pikes Peak Region, the infants born to pioneer families of this area, and those later residents, both known and unknown, who came to this final resting place: ...

USS Newport News CA-148

At 0100 hours on October 1, 1972, the USS Newport News was firing a support mission off the coast of South Vietnam. An 8 inch projectile jammed in the center gun of Turret Two. The subsequent implosion and fire killed ...

Mabry's Chapel

Eight miles northeast stood Mabry's Chapel, the fourth Methodist house of worship built in Virginia. It was constructed in 1780, five years after the congregation first met at John Mabry's dwelling. By 1804, a new larger church was built; it ...

Hog Mountain Baptist Church

Organized January 14, 1854

Eleven charter members first met near what was known as the Hog Mountain House eight miles N.E. of Lawrenceville to organize the church.

The church was organized by Elder David H. Moncrief and Elder Amos Hadaway.

The first ...

First Baptist Church

Congregation organized 1809. Original church, built 1811 on Sumter Street corner, was burned Feb. 17, 1865 by Union troops who mistook it for the present church, built 1859, where the Secession Convention had met Dec. 17, 1860. Because of ...

Pre Civil War Spring House

According to local legend,

the North came here to get water

during the day and the South at night.

Restored in 2002

Marker is on Washington Street (Business U.S. 340), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Prisoner Exchange

Thousands of Civil War soldiers, including many held in Confederate prison at Salisbury, were exchange here, Feb. 26–Mar 4, 1865.

Marker is on U.S. 117 near Browns Ferry Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Windsor Hill Plantation

Windsor Hill Plantation, steeped in the history

and traditions of the South of another

day, was for a time the home of one of the best

known and highly respected heroes of the

American Revolution.

General William Moultrie

General William Moultrie was ...