Fred Morgan Kirby

(1861-1940)

Pioneer of the 5 & 10 cent store sales concept. He opened his first store in Wilkes-Barre in 1884. In 1912, he merged his 96 retail stores with F. W. Woolworth to form the vast international retail chain. A philanthropist, ...

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

The National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established by Congressional legislation and approved by President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1865. Its purpose was "...to care for him who shall have borne the battle..." as stated in President ...

Growth of Fort Fisher, 1861-1862

In April 1861 Capt. Charles P. Bolles began building individual gun batteries at Confederate Point.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lava Flows

Imagine standing here millions of years ago on the edge of a huge plain fringed by distant mountains. Cypress trees grow in the swamps. Maple, sycamore, ginkgo, sequoia, and fir cover the nearby hills and mountains. Ancestors of rhinoceroses and ...

Town Pond Reservoir Cridersville's Great Fire of 1918

Side A:

The Village of Cridersville was founded in 1856. With the discovery of oil in 1885 the village prospered and grew quickly. Its business district developed along Main Street in the first block east of the railroad. The Town Pond ...

Moorefield Presbyterian Church

Confederate Sanctuary

When the Civil War began, the Greek Revival-style Moorefield Presbyterian Church consisted of the main sanctuary that fronts on Main Street and the small chapel behind it. The chapel was constructed about 1847, and the sanctuary was completed in ...

Battle of Pilot Knob

Pilot Knob Mountain

Battle of Pilot Knob

Pilot Knob Mountain

September 27, 1864

1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.Prior to the Confederate attack on Ft. Davidson a detachment of 3rd M.S.M. Cavalry was forced off Pilot Knob Mountain by Slemons' and McCray's Rebel Brigades. The ...

Chief Vann House

Built of locally made brick in 1804, this house, the finest in the Cherokee Nation, was the home a Town Chief, James Vann, son of a Scotch trader, Clement Vann, and his wife, a Cherokee chieftain's daughter. Around his home ...

The Battle of Pilot Knob

September 27, 1864

In September of 1864 Major General Sterling Price and a 12,000 man army re-entered Missouri in a forlorn effort to regain the state for the Confederacy. On September 27th they laid siege to Fort Davidson. The defenders, though ...

Battle of Pilot Knob

Pilot Knob Mountain

Battle of Pilot Knob

Pilot Knob Mountain

September 27, 1864

1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.Prior to the Confederate attack on Ft. Davidson a detachment of 3rd M.S.M. Cavalry was forced off Pilot Knob Mountain by Slemons' and McCray's Rebel Brigades. The ...