Quarters for the Troops

On the hillside before you, inside the fort walls, stood some 100 log huts, part of 400 built in the area to house the Confederate garrison. The activity of hundreds of men probably created acres of mud during the winter ...

Smyrna Railroad Depot

A combined freight and passenger house, the Smyrna Railroad Depot was erected in 1851, and replaced in 1873. It was a direct result of the charter granted by the State of Tennessee on Dec. 11, 1845, to the Nashville & ...

Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed

Chapman

Benefactor

1774 - 1845

First Nursery

1811 - 1828

Marker is on East River Drive (Ohio Route 424) 0.2 miles west of East High Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Port Chester World War I Monument

In Everlasting

Memory Of The

Living And The

Dead Who Served

Their Country

In The World War

[ Five benches surround the monument. A total of 1,021 names ares listed on the bronze plaques. The following 25 names have a ...

Mary Kate Patterson Davis Hill Kyle

(1844-1931)

Heroine of the South, worked with Coleman's Scouts and Sam Davis to spy in the LaVergne-Nolensville-Nashville area. When a teenager, she smuggled vital information and supplies through Union lines. Mrs. Kyle was buried in the Confederate Circle in Mt. Olivet ...

Santa Rita Copper Mines

Copper has been mined here since 1804. For five years, development by Francisco Manuel Elguea resulted in some 6,000,000 pounds of copper being transported annually to Mexico City by mule train. Brief periods of activity were halted by Apache opposition ...

1862 Antietam Campaign

Lee Invades Maryland

Fresh from victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 4–6, 1862, to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic ...

Port Chester World War II Memorial

In Memoriam

To The Eight Willow St. Boys of Port Chester

Who Gave Their Lives In World War II

Lt. Alphonse Guardino • S/Sgt. John P. Ribuffo • Sgt. Daniel J. Liberati • Cpl. Joseph Carlucci • Pfc. Orlando Gabriele ...

Unity Presbyterian Church

Front

This church, founded in 1788, predates the present town of Fort Mill and has occupied four sites in the vicinity. The first church, a log building, stood about 2 mi. NE in a community known as “Little York.” It burned ...

St. John's Episcopal Church

This congregation was organized in the 1830's, with services being held in private homes and the Methodist meeting house. The present building was first used in October 1852 and completed the following year. During the Civil War, Union troops occupied ...