3rd Massachusetts Battery

5th Corps Artillery

3rd Mass. Battery

5th Corps Art'y.

July 2, 1863.

Marker is at the intersection of Wheatfield Road and Crawford Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Wheatfield Road.

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Smith - Joseph - Stratton House

Only surviving residence of former Mayor E.B. Joseph. the Italianate cottage was built c. 1855 by Pickett Chauncey Smith, a merchant in antebellum Montgomery, and father-in-law of E.B. Joseph, who occupied the house from 1880 to 1885. Joseph served on ...

St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church

St. Peter's Church has occupied this site since a small wooden church, begun in 1833, was built on land donated by Mr. Edward Hanrick. Rt. Rev. Michael Portier, D.D., first Catholic Bishop of Mobile, dedicated the first church on April ...

Home of James Edward Wheat

Located on a 2,952.2-acre tract of Republic of Texas land awarded in 1838 to Dr. Josiah Wheat, an early settler of Tyler County, and donor in 1847 of 200 acres for county seat, soon named Woodville.

Site for this residence ...

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige

front left panel

Leroy Robert

(picture of Satchel)

July 7, 1906

June 8, 1982

front right panel

Lahoma Jean

(picture of Lahoma)

April 7, 1922

Sept. 22, 1986

center front panel

Paige

He began work carrying suitcases at Mobile ...

Daniel Bowman Mill at Silver Lake

Shenandoah Valley Mills

During the Civil War, the Daniel Bowman Mill occupied this site, grinding wheat brought here by Rockingham County farmers. The county was part of the prosperous agricultural region known as the “breadbasket of the Confederacy.” It was no ...

A County Older Than the State

Limestone County

created Feb. 6, 1818 by Alabama Territorial Legislature from lands ceded by Cherokee Nation 1806 and by Chickasaw Nation in 1816. Named for creek (and its limestone bed), which runs through county.

Few settlers here until Indian treaties.

Athens ...

2nd Battery New Jersey Light Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Third Corps

Army of the Potomac

Third Corps

Artillery Brigade

New Jersey Light Artillery

2nd Battery

Six 10 pounder Parrotts

Captain A. Judson Clark Commanding

July 2 Engaged in the action in a field near the Peach Orchard retired to the rear about 6.30 p.m. ...

The Montgomery Theater

On a wall in this building,

"The Montgomery Theater"

Dan Emmett

first inscribed the score of Dixie

for his minstrel orchestra.

H.F. Arnold

arranged it for band music and used it at

the inauguration of

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederacy.

February 18, 1861

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1371

Seashore State Park at Cape Henry, now known as First Landing State Park, was built by an all African American regiment of the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal-era relief program that employed young men ages 17 to 25. The ...