Hood’s Middle Tennessee Campaign and The Battle for Decatur

“A Hard Nut To Crack”

Following the fall of Atlanta on September 2, 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood, Commander of the Army of Tennessee, began a series of maneuvers against the Union line of supply running from Atlanta through Northwest ...

First Town Hall

1931 – 1944

Joseph Scudder House c. 1779

Marker is on Lawrenceville Road (Main Street) (U.S. 206) 0.2 miles north of Gordon Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

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Presbyterian Home For Children

Synod Of Alabama

Originally conceived 1864 as a home for children of Confederate dead by Synod in session at Selma.

Opened at Tuskegee 1868 - relocated in Talladega 1891.

A haven for dependent youth of Alabama providing training, education, and worship in a ...

Battle Of Talladega

Nov. 9, 1813

Here Andrew Jackson led Tennessee Volunteers and friendly Indians to victory over hostile “Red Sticks.”

This action rescued friendly Creeks besieged in Fort Leslie.

Creek Indian War 1813 - 1814.

Marker is at the intersection of East Battle Street and Court ...

Rio Vista Farm

English Translation:

El Paso County's second poor farm, known as the El Paso Poor Farm, was established here in 1915. John O'Shea, a wealthy farmer and businessman whose farm was nearby, assumed operation of the farm. His wife, Agnes O'Shea, was ...

Western Terminus of the Lincoln Highway

You are standing at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first direct coast-to-coast highway from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. It was conceived in 1912 by Carl Fisher (founder of the ...

Franklin

Incorporated as a town in 1876, Franklin began as a Southampton County village in the 1830s. In October, 1862, during the Civil War, Union gunboats on the Blackwater River shelled the town and the railroad station. Several skirmishes occurred nearby ...

Seven - Inch Banded Brooks Rifle

This gun was employed in the bombardment of federal troops at Fort Sumter from Fort Johnson on April 12 and 13, 1861.

Marker is on Murray Boulevard.

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17th Infantry Regiment

[Front Side of Marker]:

The 17th Infantry, created by Congress in 1812 and formed with personnel from western states, was the only Regular Army regiment in General James Winchester's column of the Army of the Northwest's campaign to regain Detroit. During ...

The Battle at Chalk Bluff

A State Divided

The Battle at Chalk BluffDown the hill from this marker is the place where four brigades of Confederates, led by Brig. Gen. John Sappington Marmaduke, crossed the St. Francis into the safety of Arkansas on May 1-2, 1863. ...