Blackwater Line - Joyner's Ford

Confederate forces guarded this Blackwater River crossing from 1862 to the end of the Civil War. On 12 Dec. 1862, Capt. J. H. Sikes and soldiers of Company D, 7th Confederate Cavalry, were captured during a dismounted skirmish with elements ...

Building Five

Great Lakes History Trail Stop 4

The Mess Hall and Galley were designed to serve one thousand two hundred eighty men, but during WWI, over five thousand sailors were fed at each meal. The ornamentation on the outside walls of the ...

The First Pony Express

This monument erected by the

Daughters of the American Revolution

and

The City of St. Joseph

marks the place where the first

Pony Express started on April 3, 1860

Marker is on Penn Street near South 10th Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Cattle (Beefsteak) Raid

One mile southwest, on September 16, 1864, General Wade Hampton's Confederate Cavalry herded about 2500 head of captured cattle across the Nottoway River, while two miles northwest, at Belsches' Mill, Federal troops sent to recapture the cattle were intercepted and ...

White Bluff

Composed of limestone or “Selma

chalk” which abounds in fossils.

Called “Ecor Blanc” by

eighteenth-century French explorers

and cartographers.

Named “Chickasaw Gallery” because

early Indian inhabitants harassed

boats from here.

Landing site of Bonapartist exiles

who established the

“Vine and Olive Colony” in 1817.

Marker is on West Monroe Street.

Courtesy ...

Battery I First U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Second Corps

Army of the Potomac

Second Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery I First U.S. Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Lieut. George A. Woodruff Commanding

Lieut. Tully McCrea Commanding

July 2 & 3 Arrived and took position in Ziegler's Grove on the left of Evergreen Cemetery. Actively ...

Village of Merton

Early Potawatomi Indians had a camp trail on ridge south of Bark River, which became part of Military Trail. Wm. O'Dell, about 1840, built first settler cabin near Bark. In 1848 the Township was called "Warren". Local people wanted a ...

Bluff Hall

Situated on historic White Bluff

overlooking the Tombigbee River,

Bluff Hall was built in 1832 by

slaves of Allen Glover for his

daughter, Sarah Serena, and her

husband, Francis Strother Lyon.

Lawyer and planter, F. S. Lyon, served in both the

Confederate and the United States congresses.

Frequent ...

Lamar Electric Membership Corporation Incorporating Board of Dir

REA Project 75 was chartered in February 1937 and was energized August 11, 1938, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It became Lamar Electric Membership Corporation. This day, January 23, 2005, as we change the name to Southern Rivers Energy, the ...

The TVA System of Multipurpose Dams

Nickajack Dam

The Tennessee River has its headwaters in the mountains of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. The main stream forms at Knoxville, where the Houston and the French Broad Rivers join.

The valley, 41,000 square miles in area, receives an ...