Civil War Battle of Mesilla & Major Lynde's Retreat

July 24-27, 1861

On July 24, 1861, Lt. Col. John Robert Baylor led 300 men consisting of two companies of the Second Texas Mounted Rifles, a Texas light-artillery company without its howitzers, an El Paso County scout company, and some ...

Texas Prison System Central State Farm Main Building

Central State Farm's roots trace to the late 1870s, when the original 5235 acres of the sugar plantation here were worked by convict labor. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, public sentiment largely supported a self-sustaining prison system, with ...

Rufus B. Atwood

March 15, 1897 - March 18, 1983

Noted as one of Kentucky's most famous African American citizens, Hickman's Atwood served as the president of Kentucky State College from 1929 to 1962.

During his tenure at the school, Atwood led the battle for ...

Half Way Brook

Fort Amherst

So called because midway between Forts Edward and

William Henry. From 1755 to 1780 it was the scene of many bloody skirmishes, surprises, and ambushes. Here the French and Indians inflicted two horrible massacres upon the English and ...

Riverside Beach / White's Paridise

Riverside Beach

Riverside Beach, developed by the Cooper River Bridge Company, opened in 1930 as the first black beach in the area. It was sold to the County in 1941. The site featured a dance pavilion, boardwalk, bath house, playground ...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

In a log cabin which stood here, Frances Eliza Hodgson, newly from England with her family, spent the winter of 1865. She helped support her family with music lessons, also opened a "Select Seminary for Young People." Here she met ...

Blind Rock

Legendary place of Native American

rendezvous and ambushes

English-French frontier boundry

colonial landmark and crossroads.

Marker is at the intersection of Lake George Road (U.S. 9) and Montray Road, on the right when traveling north on Lake George Road.

Courtesy ...

The River Batteries

C.S.A.

The River Batteries

Captain Joseph Dixon (Killed)

Captain Jacob Culbertson

CommanderThe lower water battery established at this point mounted eight 32-pounder guns and one 10-inch columbiad. Company A, 50th Tennessee, under Captain T.W. Beaumont, manned the four guns on the right, and Company ...

John Wilkes Booth's Escape

Civil War to Civil Rights

“My brother saw Booth as he came down the alley and turned into F Street.” Henry Davis, 1901.

Twelve-year-old Henry Davis and his brother often looked out the back window of their Ninth Street home ...

John Bullen

In memory of

John Bullen

who located Kenosha June 12, 1835

and was one of its founders

Courtesy hmdb.org