Third Brigade

First Division - Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps First Division

Third Brigade

Brig. Gen. David A. Russell

6th. Maine, 49th. (4 Cos.) 119th. Pennsylvania

5th. Wisconsin Infantry

July 2 Arrived about 4 p.m. from Manchester MD and moved to the east slope of the ...

Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor was born Spangler Arlington Brugh in Filley on August 5, 1911 and was raised in Beatrice. He appeared in 80 films from the 1930’s to the 1960’s and hosted the television series “Death Valley Days” in the 1960’s. ...

Grave Of General Tristram Thomas / Saw Mill Baptist Church

Grave of General Tristram Thomas

In Saw Mill Church cemetery is the grave of Tristram Thomas, major of militia during the Revolution. At Hunt's Bluff, ten miles south, a band of Patriots under his command seized a British flotilla in ...

Pride of Delaware Lodge #349 IBPOEW

The Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World was formally organized in 1898. Designed to promote civic improvements, the IBPOEW is one of the largest fraternal organizations of its type in the world. Responding to the request of ...

Battle of Jonesboro The Second Day

Sept. 1, 1864. The area bounded by the McPeak house (N), the Warren house (S), the R. R. (E), & U.S. 41 (W), was the scene of the final pitched battle of the Atlanta Campaign (begun May 7, '64).

Hardee’s ...

Benjamin R. Tillman House

[Front] Benjamin Ryan “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman (1847-1918), governor of S.C. 1890-94 and U.S. senator 1894-1918, bought this farm just before he left the governor’s office in 1894. He lived here until his death. Tillman, a farmer himself, grew deeply concerned ...

Bennettsville Methodist Church

The first Methodist house of worship in Marlboro County was at Beauty Spot, two miles north of here, where, in 1788, Bishop Asbury attended a meeting. By 1834, the first church in town had been built here on 1 ½ ...

Albert M. Shipp

In Gillespie Cemetery, west of here, is buried Albert M. Shipp, Methodist minister, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina 1849-59, second President of Wofford College 1859-75, Vanderbilt University Professor and Dean 1875-85, and author of "Methodism in ...

The Johnson-Blalock House

Ante-Bellum home of James F. Johnson, attorney, planter, merchant, Confederate officer and noted political figure in mid-nineteenth century Georgia. Johnson introduced the legislation which created Clayton County in 1858 and the bill which incorporated the town of Jonesboro in 1859. ...

Robinson House

Here stood the Robinson

House, where Benedict

Arnold, his treason disclosed,

fled from his wife and baby

to the British ship Vulture.

Marker is on Bear Mountain Beacon Hwy (New York Route 9D) north of Lawes Lane, on the left ...