J.W. and Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Interpretive Trail

Native plants played a significant role in the daily life of the Creek Indian civilization that inhabited the Chattahoochee Valley until relocation to Oklahoma in the 19th century. During the Woodland Period, the local inhabitants were skilled hunters and gatherers ...

UPS - Celebrating 100 years of Service

August 28, 2007

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of UPS, employees gathered here at the company’s birthplace to honor, celebrate and reaffirm UPS’s commitment to serving communities around the world.

Marker is on 2nd Avenue near South Main Street.

Courtesy ...

Irvine Park Drive Bridge

The Irvine Park Drive Bridge was an example of a Pratt bridge construction, which was a design used in Wisconsin from 1895-1910. The Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Company fabricated the bridge in 1907. The structure originally crossed Duncan Creek on ...

Southland Paper Mills, Inc

First plant to turn southern pines into newsprint. Mill here revolutionized paper industry in the southern United States. Seeking local paper rather than foreign supplies, Southland was incorporated in 1938 and began operations, 1940. Its mills made possible use of ...

Sappony Church

Hampton’s Cavalry: "Too strong to be overcome"

In June 1864, to deny Gen. Robert E. Lee the use of the South Side R.R. and the Richmond and Danville R.R., Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sent Gen. James H. Wilson and Gen. August ...

Ford's Depot

The Destruction Begins

In June 1864, to deny Gen. Robert E. Lee the use of the South Side R.R. and the Richmond and Danville R.R., Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sent Gen. James H. Wilson and Gen. August V Kautz south of ...

Alpha Delta Pi

Memorial Headquarters

Alpha Delta Pi Sorority was founded May 15, 1851 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, as the first secret society in the world for college women, and thus became the mother of the social sorority system. Wesleyan Collage was ...

Ethel Davis Plaza

In Memory of

1896-1968

Ethel Davis' vision and determination to enhance the quality of life in the Shoals through support and encouragement of the arts led to the foundation of the Tennessee Valley Art Association in 1963.

The following year the City of ...

Ewell Crosses the Appomattox

Racing West

(preface)

After Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant broke through Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s lines at Petersburg on April 2, 1865, Lee ordered the evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond. The Army of Northern Virginia retreated west on several roads, with ...

Spanish American War Memorial

Crawfordsville - Montgomery County Indiana

[Left Side - Entry]

(Small Stone)

April 26, 1898

(Large Stone)

Remember the Maine Destroyed Feb. 15, 1898

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[Right Side - Entry]

(Small Stone)

July 4, 1902

(Large Stone)

To All Montgomery County Veterans of the War with ...