Jefferson County / Cocke County

Side A

* Jefferson County *

Established 1792: named in honor of

Thomas Jefferson

Secretary of State; formerly member of the Continental Congress; principal author of the Declaration of Independence; later Governor of Virginia; Vice-President and President of the United States.

Side B

* Cocke County ...

Camp of 1st Battalion, 4th Illinois Cavalry

McClernand's Division

U.S.

Camp of

1st Battalion,

4th Illinois Cavalry,

McClernand's (1st) Division,

Army of the Tennessee.

April 6, 1862.

Marker is on Cavalry Road 0.4 miles west of Hamburg-Savannah Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Academy of The Holy Names

On Sept. 14, 1896, Sisters of the Holy Names established The Academy of The Holy Names by order of Bishop John Moore. Sisters Mary Emiline and Mary Hubert were the first teachers in this brick school.

    On Nov. 29, 1896, ...

124th Ohio Infantry

Hazen's Brigade - Wood's Division

124th Ohio Infantry.

Hazen's Brigade, Wood's Division, 4th Corps.

Lieut. Col. James Pickands.

Nov. 25, 1863.The regiment participated in the brigade advance of Nov. 23 on Orchard Knob, losing 1 killed and 3 wounded. In the assault on Missionary ...

Fort Huger

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

Shells have been found in amazing quantities along this area of the river. The Indians who lived beside the saltwater stretches of river did not have tuckahoe and other freshwater plants to sustain them ...

13th Iowa Infantry

Hare's Brigade - McClernand's Division

U.S.

13th Iowa Infantry,

Hare's (1st) Brig., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

At about 4.30 p.m. April 6, 1862, this regiment was engaged here, repelling a cavalry charge. It moved to left rear 400 yards where it was ...

Fort Jefferson Site / Indian Massacre

(North Side):Fort Jefferson Site

Built in 1780 by George Rogers Clark as part of impressive plan of settlement, conceived by Gov. Patrick Henry of Virginia, later pursued by and named for Gov. Thomas Jefferson. The fort was to protect US claim ...

Welcome to Fort Boykin Historic Park

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

Fort Boykin was named after Francis Marshall Boykin who was a Virginia state senator, general in the state militia and owner of the property on which the fort was built. The topography at Fort ...

Postal Routes of 1820

Two miles north of this point was the intersection of two important postal routes of early Alabama, the Saint Stephens-Cahawba Road and the Tuskaloosa-Prairie Bluff Road.

Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 28 and State Highway 162, on the ...

History of San Mateo’s Bridges

In 1923, the cities of San Mateo, Burlingame, and Hillsborough began planning for a bridge to link the San Francisco Bay peninsula cities with East Bay and Central Valley communities. Even after the Dumbarton Bridge opened, in 1927, these municipalities ...