The First Provincial Congress

The First Provincial Congress

of delegates from the towns of

Massachusetts

was called by conventions of

the people to meet at Concord on the

eleventh day of October 1774.

The delegates assembled here

in the Meeting-House on that day

and organized

with John Hancock as President

and Benjamin Lincoln ...

Camp Polk Heritage Families

We will not forget our heritage families for they are unsung heroes who surrendered their homes and way of life for the sake of this nation.

Marker can be reached from Louisiana Avenue east of Colorado Avenue, on the right when ...

The Samuel House Plantation

The large brick residence built in 1857 by Samuel House (1798-1873) was a prominent landmark during military operations by Federal forces on the Atlanta front in July, 1864.

Cox’s division of Schofield's 23rd A.C. reached this vicinity July 18; Schofield, in ...

Father Peter Whelan

Father Peter Whelan, an Irish-born Catholic priest from Savannah, arrived at Andersonville on June 16, 1864, to minister to the sick and dying. While other priests visited for brief periods, Whelan remained for nearly four months during the hottest season ...

Union Supply Base

One of first Kentucky positions, Fort Jefferson, occupied by Union troops after Confederate seizure of Columbus, Sept. 1861. From this base, Gen. U.S. Grant directed demonstration against Columbus, Jan. 1862. Troops from here joined in capturing Ft. Henry, Feb. 1862. ...

Ponce de Leon Ball Park

1908 – 1966

Here on these grounds at Ponce de Leon Ball Park, The Atlanta Crackers and the Atlanta Black Crackers began a tradition of baseball championship and athletic excellence which set the high standard for the baseball we enjoy in ...

Pee Dee Church

Duncan McIntire, a licensed minister who preached in Gaelic for those who could speak no other language, organized this Presbyterian congregation shortly before 1829. The present vernacular Gothic Revival structure was completed by 1851. A number of other congregations had ...

Tuscumbia Big Spring

Tuscumbia Big Spring

Big Spring (average daily flow 35,000,000 gallons) provided water for town founded on its banks.

Michael Dickson of Tennessee was first settler (about 1817). Town laid out in 1819 and incorporated as Ococoposo (Cold Water, 1820).

Name changed to ...

Old Pioneer Cemetery

This was the first established cemetery of Fort Gaines. The earliest death date on a stone marker is 1830. The tombs of Georgia Militia General John Dill and his family are found in an enclosed lot. Reverend John E. Brown, ...

Powell's Battery

Battery F, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery - Unassigned

(front)

Illinois

Battery "F"

2nd Regiment Lt. Artillery

Unassigned

Army of the Tennessee

(back)

Powell's Battery, "F"

Capt. J.W. Powell, wounded.

Reached this position about 10:00 a.m., April 6, 1862, and until 4 p.m. was in action on this line. Casualties in ...