Blanket Hill

HERE

Colonel John Armstrong

With about 800 Frontiersmen from

Cumberland County

Stopped September 7, 1756, while on his

Way to attack the Indian town of

Kittanning

He left 18 of his men, commanded by

Lieutanant James Hogg

To watch a band of Indians seek at a

Nearby campfire.

The next morning ...

Brewery Gulch

In the early 1900's the rough edges of Bisbee's mining camps could be found here in notorious Brewery Gulch with its dozens of saloons, gambling halls and crib houses. The street got its name from a common activity in Bisbee's ...

The Francis and Mary Usina Bridge

Named in honor of the St. Augustine and North Beach civic leaders, Francis E. and Mary Borum Usina.

Just as the bridge spans the North River to connect the St. Augustine mainland with Vilano and North Beach, so too the Usinas ...

Thorning Boulder

This site, called “Minute Man Boulder,” is associated with Lincoln Minute Man William Thorning’s heroic action on April 19th, 1775.

According to local tradition, Thorning, who lived along this stretch of the Battle Road, joined in the pursuit of the British ...

Attempted Ambush

On March 5, 1865, near the point where the Ebenezer Road crossed the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad, the 29th Missouri Mounted Infantry of Col. Reuben Williams's command, deployed on either side of the tracks to capture a Confederate train approaching ...

Samuel Bacot 1745-1795

Early land records indicate that Samuel Bacot settled in the back country of S.C. about 1770. He served in the State Militia during the Revolution, was taken prisoner by the British in 1780, but with his companions made his escape, ...

Bennettsville

In 1819 the court house of Marlborough District was transferred from Carlisle, a village on the Pee Dee River, to this more central location. Bennettsville developed around the new court house in the heart of a rich farm land area. ...

Bleckley County

This County, created by an act of the Georgia Legislature

July 30, 1912, is named for Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley, of

the Georgia Supreme Court, one of the greatest jurists in the

history of this State. Born in Rabun County in 1827, ...

General Matthew B. Ridgway

(1895-1993)

U.S. Army officer; he rose to the rank of general, 1951. In World War II, commanded 82nd Airborne Division (famed for its invasion of Sicily), 1942-44; and 18th Airborne Corps, 1944-45. Supreme commander, United Nations forces in Korea, 1951-52, and ...

Phelps Dodge General Office Building

This building was the general office for the Bisbee operations of Phelps Dodge Corporation from 1895 to 1961.

In 1971 it was given to the City of Bisbee by Phelps Dodge and was designated as a National Historic Site by the ...