South Carolina State Hospital, Mills Building

South Carolina Lunatic Asylum

(Upper Plaque)

Original Building

South Carolina State Hospital

Designed by Robert Mills

150 Years

Healing With Concern

1822 - 1972

South Carolina Department

Of Mental Health

(Lower Left Medallion)

The National Register of Historic Places

South Carolina

Department of History

and Archives

South Carolina State Hospital ...

Powhatan Stone

An old Indian stone removed from and now overlooking “Powhatan Seat” a royal residence of King Powhatan when Captain John Smith and his fellow “Adventurers” made the first permanent English settlement in this country at Jamestown, Virginia 1607.

“Powhatan Seat” was ...

Civilian Conservation Corps

During the 1930’s, across the meadow from this point was the site of CCC Camp NP-2, Company 350, Camp Fechner.

Marker is on Rapidan Road east of Skyline Drive, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Confederate Perspective

"General J.R. Jones was directed to make a demonstration against the enemy's right."

Jackson's official report

Confederate Colonel Edmund Pendleton wrote about the night of September 14, 1862, from his perspective across the road on School House Ridge. Pendleton and his men ...

Battery A, Fourth U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Second Corps

Army of the Potomac

Second Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery A Fourth U.S. Artillery

Six 3 inch Rifles

Lieut. Alonzo H. Cushing and Sergt. Frederick Fuger

commanding

July 2 Arrived and took position with the brigade of Brig. General A.S. Webb Second Division Second ...

Bates Grove and the Area Adjacent to the Cottonwood River Dam

In 1885, one Kansas writer described the area in generous words, "...at the right of the bridge on the south side of the Cottonwood River is an excellent water mill, and the music of the falling waters as they flow ...

Cuming City Cemetery and Nature Preserve

Traditionally known as the Cuming City Cemetery, this eleven-acre tract of land was set aside in 1976 primarily as a preserve for native vegetation. Never plowed, this prairie looks much like it did to the Indians and to the first ...

Sinking of the CSS ''Nashville (Rattlesnake)"

In July, 1862 the CSS "Nashville", Capt. Baker, ran the Union blockade and entered Savannah via Wilmington river with a cargo of arms. Loaded with cotton for Europe, she attempted to escape via Ossabaw Sound. Thwarted by the vigilance of ...

Tennessee State Capitol

Designed by William Strickland, noted Philadelphia architect who also designed the tower of Independence Hall. Construction was commenced in 1845 and completed 1859. Strickland died in 1854 and is entombed in the north portico. His son Francis, supervised construction from ...

Natural Tunnel: Railroading and Recreation

As early as 1852, railroaders, local merchants, and mineral speculators knew Natural Tunnel would be the most economical rail route to the coal fields of Lee County and the western part of present day Wise County, because the Tunnel would ...