First Baptist Church of Bartlett

Originally known as Pecan Grove Baptist Church, this fellowship was organized in 1873 by the Rev. M.V. Smith, The Rev. H.I. Kimball, and the Rev. G.W. Baines, great-grandfather of United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson. In 1884 the church was ...

Frederica - Old Burial Ground

" This Frederica is a very strange place; it

was once a town-the town,the metropolis of

the island."

Francis Anne Kemble

Visitor to Frederica

1839

Here, in unknown graves more than two centries old,

lie many of the early settlers of Frederica. Although

the town they ...

Bartlett Grammar School

By the early 1900s Bartlett had become the railroad center of a prosperous cotton growing region. In 1903 the Bartlett Independent School district was created. By 1906-07 the 5-room schoolhouse here proved inadequate to house the district's expanding student enrollment. ...

Brig. Gen. Rufus King’s Home

Built in 1838, the general’s 2-story wooden house on the northeast corner of Mason and Van Buren lent this intersection the name “King’s Corner.” It was razed in 1915. Rufus King (1814-1876) came to Milwaukee in 1845, was editor of ...

Benjamin Fitzpatrick

Governor 1841 - 1845

He oversaw the closing of the unstable State Bank. In 1845 the legislature amended the constitution to allow the removal of the capital from Tuscaloosa. The growing wealth and population of the Black Belt brought the seat ...

McAllister's Battery

McClernand's Division

U.S.

Army of the Tennessee.

McAllister's Battery,

"D" 1st Illinois Light Artillery,

McClernand's (1st) Division.

This battery was engaged here from about 2 P.M. to the end of the battle April 7, 1862.

Marker is at the intersection of Hamburg-Purdy Road and Corinth Road, on ...

Morton's Battery

6th Indiana Battery - McDowell's Brigade - Sherman's Division

(front)

6th

Battery,

Morton's,

Commanded by

Capt. Frederick Behr,

1st Brigade -- Col. J. A. McDowell --

5th -- Division -- Gen.Sherman --

Army of the Tennessee.

Indiana.

(back)

6th Battery, Morton's,

Commanded by Capt. Frederick Behr.

This battery was ordered into action, at this ...

From Colonial Burying Ground to Victorian Park

When Copp’s Hill was first established as the “North Burying Ground,” it was just below the summit of one of Boston’s highest hills. Looking north over the colonial wharves one could see the towns of Charleston and Chelsea and the ...

Arthur P. Bagby

Governor 1837 - 1841

He inherited the financial woes brought on by the collapse of the "Flush Times". Despite chaotic banking conditions during the Panic of 1837, chancery courts and a penitentiary system were both created, and Alabama settled its boundary ...

Holbrooke Hotel

Founded 1851

California’s oldest hotel in continuous operation. Among its century-old archives are names of such notables as Presidents Grant, Harrison, Cleveland; Authors Mark Twain, Bret Harte; Boxers Corbett, Fitzsimmons, actor Gilbert Barry and highwayman Black Bart. Present structure built in ...