13,000 Prisoners

Thirteen thousand dejected Confederate defenders of Fort Donelson huddled here against the cold on February 16, 1862. They had fought long and hard against Grant's forces and did not consider themselves defeated. They had been surrendered against their will and ...

Polk Veterans Monument

Front:

To honor our veterans who have served

POLK

Back:

To those who served and returned ...

To those who served and were lost ...

Your contribution and sacrifice for our freedom is not forgotten.

We are eternally grateful.

All gave some

Some gave all.

Army - Navy - Marine

Air ...

Tulpehocken Path

An Indian path from Shamokin (Sunbury) came over the mts. by way of Klingerstown and Pine Grove to Weiser's place in the Tulpehocken Valley. Chiefs of the Six Nations, carrying "words of wampum" to Brother Onas (Penn) at Philadelphia, traveled ...

Site of First Randolph County Courthouse

The area of this square marks the site of the first and second courthouses of Randolph County. The first, a two-story frame building, was erected in 1836. It was replaced in 1842 by a brick structure with entrances facing in ...

Patton Chapel Church 1866

Just after the War Between the States Robert Berry Patton gave seven acres of land, logs from his sawmill to build a church, school and cemetery. He served as the first pastor. Fire destroyed the church in 1908 and 1938. ...

Landing Place of First Settlers

1630 - 1930

Landing place on River Parker of the men and women who settled in Newbury between 1635 and 1650.

Marker is on High Road (Alternate Massachusetts Route 1), on the left.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Port of Indiana

Mount Vernon

River commerce was central to the livelihood of nineteenth century towns along the Ohio. This is still true in the twenty-first century. The Port of Indiana Mount Vernon is the eighth largest inland port in the country based on ...

First Presbyterian Church

First congregation organized in Columbia (1795). The churchyard, allotted as a public burying ground in 1798, was granted to this church 1813. Here are buried: D.E. Dunlap, first pastor; Chancellor H.W. DeSaussure; Jonathan Maxcy, first President of S.C. College; ...

Frederica - Indian Interpreter

Mary Musgrove Matthews " has always

been in great esteen with the General,... for

being half Indian by extract, she had a very

great influence upon many of them, particulary

the Creek Nation...."

William Stephens

February 22, 1740

In 1743, Mary Musgrove Matthews, General Oglethorpe's ...

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 ...