Greenhill Community / Greenhill Farming

Greenhill Community

In 1870, freedman Hardy Green purchased 30 acres of land along

Mathis Ferry Road. The area was called Spark Hill, but was later named Greenhill by the Moultrie School

District. Children walked several miles to Laing School, then ...

Oriental Lodge #12, I.O.O.F.

The origins of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows can be traced to the creation of beneficial trade societies in England. Composed of craftsmen who practiced a variety of different or "odd" occupations, the purpose of these organizations was to ...

The Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, 1880

This is the only remaining original redwood frame Southern Pacific R.R. Station in Arizona. It is also the only known, original, on site, passenger depot still extant on the Southern – Trans – Continental Railroad route, between Los Angeles and ...

Fifth New York Light Artillery

Artillery Reserve - Second Volunter Brigade

Army of the Potomac

Artillery Reserve

Second Volunteer Brigade

Fifth New York Light Artillery

Six 20 pounder Parrotts

Captain Elijah D. Taft Commanding

July 2 Arrived and halted in park about 10.30 a.m. Moved ...

Percy French

1854 - 1920

This memorial is erected on the site

of the birthplace of

William Percy French

Born 1st May 1854

and commemorates his life as

engineer, song-writer, entertainer,

artist and journalist.

“Remember me is all I ask,

and yet if the remembrance

prove a task - forget!” W.P.F.

Erected by ...

Confederate Troops and Casualties at Fort Donelson

C.S.A.

Buckner's Division strength 3425, killed 51*, wounded 314*, missing 41 - Aggregate 406*

• Brown's Brigade strength 2825, killed 38, wounded 247, missing 41 - Aggregate 326

• Hanson's Regiment strength 600, killed 13*, wounded 67* - Aggregate 80

Johnson's Division strength 4309*, ...

Fort Seneca

In the 1820s a general store and a grist mill were established near this site, where the famous Scioto-Sandusky Indian Trail neared the Sandusky River. The settlement was first known as McNutt's, later as Swope's Corners. The village of Fort ...

Federal Troops and Casualties at Fort Donelson

U.S.A.

McClearnand's Division strength 8000, killed 311, wounded 1058, missing 183 - Aggregate 1552

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Oglesby's Brigade killed 184, wounded 603, missing 66 - Aggregate 853

• Wallace's Brigade killed 99, wounded 350, missing 98 - Aggregate 547

• Morrison's Brigade killed 28, wounded ...

Asa Chatfield Farm

The farmhouse which stood near here was used as an American observation post. Between the engagements, Patriot pickets held the near side of the Middle Ravine; British pickets, the far side.

Marker is on Park Tour Road, on the right ...

Fort Donelson

Here the Union won its first major victory of the Civil War. The surrender of Fort Donelson, along with the capture of Forts Henry and Heiman, forced the Confederacy to abandon Nashville and give up southern Kentucky and much of ...