Georgia School for the Deaf

In 1833, a deaf man, John Jacobus Flournoy, of Jackson County, great grandson of Jacob Flournoy, a French Huguenot, urging education for the deaf, interested Governor Wilson Lumpkin and the Georgia Legislature in the educational movement. At first the pupils, ...

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.

This regiment, while moving from its position near Cavalry Field, became engaged here at about 4.30 p.m. April 6, 1862. It retired in good order and ...

81st Ohio Infantry

McArthur's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

Army of the Tennessee.

81st Ohio Infantry,

McArthur's (2d) Brigade,

W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Division.

This regiment formed the left of McClernand's line of battle Monday April 7, 1862 and came into position here at 9 a.m. It advanced to ...

City Of Chelsea

Incorporated March 1, 1996

Side A

Creek Indians once owned and hunted the land where the City of Chelsea now stands. In 1813, Andrew Jackson and his army won millions of acres of Creek land from the Indians at the Battle ...

First MIA Flag

First MIA Flag

On Nov. 10, 1974 the nation’s first MIA banner and flag pole was dedicated under a resolution conceived by Commander Thomas C. Bushing.

Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street and Grove Street when traveling ...

Home of Governor James Duane Doty

(1799-1865)

The home of James Duane Doty, oldest residence in Fond du Lac County, was built in 1839. Doty served as Federal Judge, Congressman, Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. He was Governor of Utah when ...

Thomas F. Wood

1841-1892

Organizer & Sec.-Treas. of State Board of Health, 1877-1892. Founded N.C. Medical Journal in 1878. Home was 1 block west.

Marker is on North 3rd Street (U.S. 74) 0.1 miles north of Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

Grave of George C. Yount

George Calvert Yount (1794-1865) was the first United States citizen to be ceded a Spanish land grant in Napa Valley (1836). Skilled hunter, frontiersman, craftsman and farmer, he was the true embodiment of all the finest qualities of an advancing ...

29th Illinois Infantry

Raith's Brigade - McClernand's Division

U.S.

29th Illinois Infantry,

Raith's (3d) Brig., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment was engaged here at 4.30 p.m. April 6, 1862 and assisted in repelling a cavalry charge and an attack by Pond's brigade. It then ...

City of Lufkin

Founded 1882. Soon became a thriving sawmill community. Named for E.P. Lufkin, chief of crew that surveyed railroad through town. Has been county seat of Angelina County since 1892. Now a regional manufacturing and commerce center. Products include paper and ...