Felix K. Zollicoffer, "Zollie Tree"

Felix K. Zollicoffer: Brig. Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer, CSA, died here, Jan. 19, 1862, in Battle of Logan's Crossroads (Mill Springs). This Tenn. native was veteran of Seminole War, editor of Nashville Banner, and 3-term U.S. congressman. In heavy rain ...

Medal of Honor Fight, 1875

In the 1870s, the U.S. Army relied on Black Seminole (Seminole-Negro) Indian scouts in campaigns against raiding Native Americans along the Texas-Mexico border. In April 1875, Lt. John L. Bullis and three scouts -- Sergeant John Ward, Private Pompey Factor ...

Make Way for the Railroad

Riverfrontiers

By 1851 the railroad had arrived at Rochester. Rail transit had been developed in the year before and had finally spread through Pittsburgh and surrounding western Pennsylvania towns.

Railroads were built on flat surfaces - one commonly flat location was along ...

Colonel Thomas W. Ferebee

Family Homesite

Colonel Thomas W. Ferebee

Bombardier, Enola Gay

Dropped Atomic Bomb on

Hiroshima, Japan

August 6, 1945

Marker is on Wilkesboro Street (U.S. 64), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Cooleemee

Fine example of "Anglo-Grecian Villa." Built on 4,000 acre plantation by Peter W. Hairston in 1855. House stands 1 mi. south.

Marker is on U.S. 64, on the right when traveling west.

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Elberton Granite Bicentennial Memorial Fountain

[Column - East/West Inscription]:

Elberton

Granite

Bicentennial

Memorial

Fountain

***

Commemorating

The

200th

Anniversary

of

American

Independence

***

1776 — 1976

[Column - North/South Inscription]:

Erected

During

1976

As A

Gift

to

Elberton

and

Albert County

by

Member-Firms

of the

Elberton Granite

Association, Inc

***

May this fountain serve

as an everyday reminder

of the Elberton Granite

Industry's interest in

this community and con-

tributions to this area's

economic and civic life.

[First Panel]:

1776 - 1976

Two Centuries of Advancement

From ...

Colorado Volunteers at the Battles of Glorieta Pass

March 26-28, 1862

On this site and several miles to the west along the Santa Fe Trail, Colorado Volunteers and Regular U.S. Troops fought a Confederate force from Texas in the Battle of Glorieta Pass. Although no clear victory emerged after ...

Glorieta Pass Battlefield

National Historic Landmark, 1961

The Civil War battle fought in this pass is often referred to as the "Gettysburg of the West." Union forces dashed Confederate strategy to seize the southwest's major supply base at Fort Union; Colorado and California were ...

Solomon Blatt Highway

Named In Honor

Of

"Mr. Speaker"

who has traveled this road

between Barnwell and Columbia

thousands of times

as

member, House of Representatives

since 1933

Speaker of the House

1937 — 47 1951 —73

A record unequalled in U.S.

Speaker ...

Affra Harleston Coming

In

Memory Of

Affra Harleston Coming

Who epitomizes the courage of the woman who

   pioneered the settling of this state.

Coming by herself from England in 1670 as a

   bonded servent and serving a two year

indenture to pay for ...