Forrest and Capron

Nov. 24 1864

Forrest's cavalry, screening the advance of Stewart's Corps on Columbia met Capron's Cavalry Brigade in this locality and chased it back to Columbia, where the presence of Stanley's XXIII Corps behind entrenchments gave them protection and prevented Forrest ...

Piney Grove

The Front Line and the Home Front

In Virginia, the “Home Front” and the “Front Line”

were often just miles apart during the Civil War. In places such as Charles City County families provided their men for troops and also lost the ...

Masonic Temple -- 1889

This is the second Masonic Temple to occupy this location. After its organization in 1848, Hiram Lodge No. 68 met in the second story of a store building on the east side of the square for several years. The first ...

Piney Grove and Southalls

During the 18th century this property was established as a Southall family seat. Notable family members include James Barrett Southall, owner of Williamsburg's Raleigh Tavern, Turner Southall, member of the committee to build Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Capitol, and historian Douglas ...

Technical Sergeant Frank D. Peregory

Born at Esmont on 10 April 1915, Frank D. Peregory enlisted in May 1931 in Charlottesville’s Co. K (Monticello Guard), 116th Inf. Regt., 29th Inf. Div. On D-Day, 6 June 1944, T. Sgt. Peregory landed in the assault on Omaha ...

The Savannah And Memphis Railroad 1874

The transformation of Youngsville from a country hamlet to a market town can be traced from the arrival of the railroad. The Savannah and Memphis Railroad was completed from Opelika to the east side of the Tallapoosa River at Sturdivant ...

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

has been designated a

National Historic Landmark

This site is a premier example of the Prairie style of landscape architecture. Alfred Caldwell, a landscape designer, architect, teacher and poet, transformed an old Victorian lily pool in Lincoln Park into a “sanctuary of ...

George Washington Paused Here

George Washington

Paused here on the Post Road near this church, on October 16, 1789 and afterward wrote in his diary, "the superb landscape which is to be seen from the meeting house is a rich regalia".

In Commemoration ...

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

Alfred Caldwell, landscape architect

Chicago Landmark

One of the most important historic landscapes in Chicago, this “hidden garden” in Lincoln Park was designed by note landscape architect Alfred Caldwell in the Prairie style. Inspired by his mentor Jens Jensen and the work ...

Darke County Chapter No. 57 D.A.V. Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to those

who served and

sacrificed for their

country in all wars

and conflicts.

May 1987

Courtesy hmdb.org