America's First Battle of World War II: The Philippines

For America, WWII began of December 7, 1941, with the attack on Pearl Harbor, the first of Japan's day-long assault on locations throughout the Pacific. Major American installations on Luzon, the largest island of the Philippines, were also devastated; so ...

This Flag Pole

Dedicated as the permanent memorial

of the 200th Anniversary of

The Battle of Lexington

April 19, 1775

First armed conflict of

the American Revolution.

Lexington Bicentennial Corporation

1976

Right Marker:

This flag of the

United States of America

is flown on this pole

24 hours a day

by act of Congress

of the United ...

Pyle's Defeat

A body of Tories, going to join Cornwallis' Army at Hillsborough, was destroyed by a Whig force, Feb. 23, 1781. ¾ mile southwest.

Marker is on Maple Avenue near Anthony Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Millbrook Baptist Church

[Front]:

This church, formally organized in 1884, had its origins in a Sunday school class organized in 1874. With 16 charter members and Rev. Arthur Buist as its first minister, Millbrook built its first sanctuary here in 1886. The frame church, ...

The Park Avenue Historical District

51 Structures, 70% residential, built early 20th century to post World War II period.

The 1885 sale of Gardner Hale’s land began the housing development. The 33 acre 1924 Independent Presbyterian Church Children’s Fresh Air Farm, 1923 Bluff Park Elementary School ...

Battle of Campbell's Station

The Federal Gen. Ambrose Burnside, pursued by Gen. James Longstreet from Lenoir's Station via Concord, eluded an attempt by Gen. Lafayette McLaws, C.S.A., coming from Loudon via the Hotchkiss Valley and Kingston Roads, to head him off at the junction ...

Auction Site / First Train Depot

This is a two sided marker

Side A:

Auction Site

At this site on May 15th 1905, the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad auctioned off lots for the creation of the new city of Las Vegas. With 110 degree temperatures ...

Capt. Simon Kenton

The Grave of

Capt. Simon Kenton

1755 - 1836

Revolutionary War Soldier

Clark Illinois Regiment, Virginia State Troops

Brigadier General of the Ohio Militia - 1812

Inscription on Gravestone:

In

Memory

of

Gen. Simon Kenton

Who was born April 3rd,

1755, in Culpepper Co. Va.

& Died, April 29th, 1836

Aged 81 years & ...

Hickman Bluff Stabilization Project

1996 - 2000

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Memphis District

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell

Congressional Sponsor

Mayors of Hickman

Judy C. Powell

John P. Shuff

Richard H. White, M.D.

Project Design: D'Appolonia, Inc.

Prime Contractor: Schunbel Foundation Co.

Subcontractor: Coffey Construction Co.

After a century of instability, erosion of Hickman Bluff caused ...

Edmund Winston Pettus House Site

Edmund Winston Pettus, lawyer, General C.S.A., U.S. Senator, was born Limestone County, Alabama, 1821.

Admitted to bar, 1842.

Moved to Cahaba, 1858.

Major, C.S.A., 1861.

Brigadier General, 1863.

U.S. Senator, 1897-1907.

Resided here from 1866 until death, 1907.

When in Senate, with ...