Richardson's Battery

Battery D, 1st Missouri Light Artillery - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

Richardson's Battery,

"D" 1st MO. Lt. Art., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery, of two 10 pdr. and two 20 pdr. Parrott guns, was in action here from 9 a.m. ...

Henry Weidner Robinson

Commemorating the memory of Henry Weidner Robinson

This marks the town of Hickory Tavern as incorporated December 12, 1863. The city of Hickory Commemorates Henry Weidner Robinson who in 1859 gave this site as a public common. The citizens of Hickory ...

Wabash and Erie Canal Completed 1853

The approximately 460 mile canal from Toledo, Ohio, to Evansville, Indiana, was the longest canal built in the United States. Here a section constructed above the natural land surface to prevent flooding and erosion, remains intact.

Marker is on Indiana Route ...

Banking Institutions

Prior to the development of the modern financial institutions, many enterprises and ventures were funded through the sale of subscriptions or shares (e.g. railroad, newspapers). Bank startups also followed this pattern and, by 1870, Madison had at least two local ...

The Bell at Augusta State University

The Bell, donated to the College by the

Georgia Railroad Bank, came from the

last steam locomotive of the Georgia

Railroad. In 1957, the bank also funded

the building of the tower to house the bell,

which at one time ...

Sandy River Bridge

On October 30, 1792 off the point in the Columbia River where the Sandy empties its waters, the boat crew from the H.M.S. Chatham (Vancouver's Voyages) were the first white men to sight the snowclad peak which Lt. Wm. R. ...

Mendenhall's Battery

Batteries H & M, 4th United States Artillery - Crittenden's Division

U.S.

Army of the Ohio.

Mendenhall's Batteries,

"H" & "M" 4th United States Artillery,

Crittenden's (5th) Division

These batteries, with four guns, were engaged here

from about noon to 2 p.m. April 7, 1862.

Marker is on ...

Jane Fishburne Hipp Plaza

Named in honor of a beloved member of the extended Furman University Family, generous benefactor, and wife of Herman N. Hipp, Class of 1935.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Wabash and Erie Canal

( At Top - - Canal Map & Points of Interest )

Here is a section of the Wabash & Erie Canal still visible in Gibson County. Construction of the approx. 460 mi. canal. The longest in North America. ...

Byram's Ford Historic District

Text of the Marker:

Byram's Ford Historic District

has been placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Site of the

Battle of the Big Blue

October 22 and 23, 1864

and ...