Defending the Cannon

5th Maine Battery

Picture Longstreet's advance - gray lines of Confederates as far as you can see, driving Ohio troops from the rail fence across the field toward this position. Here four gun crews from Maine were trying to load and ...

Death of Major William Montgomery

The death of

Major William Montgomery

while leading the British

attack on the Fort at

this point.

Sept. 6th 1781

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Park Avenue and Monument Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Harkey’s Chapel United Methodist Church Founded Circa 1829-1830

Original log house of worship built St. Clair

Co. near Broken Arrow Creek, six miles from

Coosa River. Named Harkey’s Chapel for first

Minister, the Rev. David Harkey of Cahawba Circuit.

Present church built 1903-04 by A. I. Abels with

Community helpers. Preserved by ...

Trail of Tears

?In May 1838 soldiers, under the command of U.S. Army General Winfield Scott, began rounding up Cherokee Indians in this area who had refused to move to Indian Territory in Oklahoma. About 16,000 Cherokees were placed in stockades in Tennessee ...

Fort Augusta

This stone marks the site

of the

Colonial Fort Augusta,

built by order of General Oglethorpe

and the trustees

in 1736;

and known,

during the Revolution as

Fort Cornwallis.

St. Paul Church was built

in 1750,

under the curtain of ...

First Home of Winthrop College

The South Carolina College for Women

[Left Top]:

This Chapel of the Columbia Theological

Seminary, at Columbia, South Carolina,

was occupied by the Winthrop Training

School as a classroom for one year.

1886-1887.

The Winthrop Training School was organ-

ized in 1886 by D.B. Johnson, superintend-

ent of the ...

El Paso International Airport / The Butterfield Trail / Refinery

[Left:]

El Paso International Airport

One of the nation's finest and busiest major airports and general aviation centers, dedicated in 1928. Elevation is 3,936 feet with a total area of 3,878 acres and tremendous runways measuring up to 12,000 feet. Strict liaison ...

The History of Hough (1799-1979)

Oliver and Eliza Hough settled in the area now known as Hough in 1799. Upon their death in 1866, the land was rendered to the residents of the community has has been heretofore known as the Hough area.

Unknowingly to ...

William Beaumont General Hospital /Biggs Air Force Base / Fort B

[Left:]

William Beaumont General Hospital

This famous army hospital opened in 1921 and was named for Major & Surgeon William Beaumont, who distinguished himself as an army surgeon during the war of 1812. Later his observations of the stomach of Alexis St. ...

Beneath the Surface

This 1893 map shows the system of tunnels that ran under the West Side Milling District–part of the complex waterworks that brought energy from the 50-foot drop of the falls into the mills. Water from the

river above the falls flowed ...