Camp of 48th Illinois Infantry

Marsh's Brigade - McClernand's Division

U.S.

Camp of

48th Illinois Infantry,

Marsh's (2d) Brig., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

First position in line of battle April 6, 1862, was 400 yards south, on south side of Corinth Road.

Marker is on Sherman Road 0.3 miles ...

This Cavalry Group

This calvary group replaces the "old wooden cross" erected by John Dubois of which Mother Seton writes in her journal for the year 1815 --- "Quiet dinner at the Grotto before the old cross, yet standing after winter storms", memorializes ...

Camp Bouse

The 701st Tank Battalion

Campaigns

Central Europe Northern France Rhineland

The 701st tank battalion was activated 3/28/43 at Camp Campbell, KY. Here 553 young men and officers began their journey into history. These men began their basic training and for many saw a ...

Peter Kerr 1795-1861

One of "Old 300" of Stephen F. Austin's first colony from Pennsylvania, took part in 1836 war for Texas Independence, he made and lost several stakes.

In 1851 bought a league and labor of Burnet County land, including site of Fort ...

Camp Bouse

General George Patton established Camp Bouse in 1943 in the Butler Valley as, the site for training over 5,500 carefully screened and qualified volunteers. These soldiers were trained to use a highly secret weapon called the Canal Defense Light. Dubbed ...

Pickett Springs / “The Best Public Resort”

Pickett Springs

Railroad building and amusement park development flourished in the post-bellum South. In 1880s, Western Railroad of Alabama opened Pickett Springs on site of William Harris’s plantation, “Forest Farm;” Harris’s daughter, Sarah, married A. J. Pickett, Alabama’s first historian, and ...

Corpus Christi Chapel

Built in 1906. Replaces the Old Grotto, 1808 - 1906.

Marker can be reached from Grotto Road 0.6 miles north of St. Anthony's Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Camp Sheridan

From Division Headquarters, located at this point from August 1917 to May 1918, was directed the training of the Thirty Seventh Division, National Guard Troops of Ohio, for Service in the World War.

The Relief map below indicates the locations of ...

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 ...

Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1370

Near here is the site of CCC Company 1370 from 1935-1940. Among the most popular New Deal programs, the CCC was designed to encourage conservation of natural resources and employment training during the Great Depression. CCC 1370 enrollees were actively ...