Fort Augusta ~ Fort Cornwallis / St. Paul's Episcopal Church

This site selected by fur traders Kennedy O`Brien and Roger de Lacy as a trading post to be nearer the Indians than Savannah Town, (in present Beech Island). To protect them and others, General Oglethorpe in 1735 built here Fort ...

Franklin Loomis Crane

Born Jan. 10, 1808,

Died Nov. 21, 1884.

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Founder of the Topeka Cemetery

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old State Fair Grounds

This square is part of the tract where state fairs were held 1856-61, 1869-1903. The buildings, used 1861-65 for Confederate barracks and hospital, as well as nitre and mining bureau in charge of Joseph LeConte and James Woodrow, were burned ...

Original Site of Winthrop College

In 1886, chiefly through the efforts of D. B. Johnson, first superintendent of Columbia public schools, Winthrop Training School, later Winthrop College, was started here in a small brick building which had been the chapel of Columbia Theological Seminary. In ...

Battle of Corydon

On July 9, 1863, along this wooded ridge - - - from the “Laconta” Road extending across the “Mauckport” Pike to the old “New Amsterdam” Road - - - occurred the only Civil War battle in Indiana. It was between ...

Confederate Armory

1861-1864

Erected on land donated to the state

by Vardry McBee for the manufacture

of arms for the South Carolina troops

in the Confederate service.

George W. Morse, superintendent

of the works, invented and manufactured

a breech-loading carbine pronounced

by General Wade Hampton the best

that he had seen.

Marker ...

Franklinton

Franklinton

Founded by Lucas Sullivant

Site of War of 1812 Encampment

General William Henry Harrison, Commander

Land Office and "Harrison House"

NSUS Daughters of 1812 - Ohio

1983-1987

Marker is at the intersection of West Broad Street (U.S. 40) and North Gift Street, on the right when ...

Colorado's Wildlife Story

From the eastern prairie to the Rocky Mountains and the western plateau country beyond, Colorado enjoys a rich abundance of wildlife. Protecting this heritage has been a challenge, and Colorado's success is due to the efforts and cooperation of people ...

Fertile Political Ground

Martin Van Buren Nat’l Hist Site

Van Buren’s 1839 purchase of the fine eighteenth-century house and farm he renamed “Lindenwald” represented his drastic rise from tavern-keeper’s son to prominent gentleman. While the fields and orchards of Lindenwald proved to be ...

Fort Morgan

Junction Station, the first settlement at this site, suffered numerous Indian attacks similar to those that raged all along the South Platte during the mid 1860s. To protect the crucial crossroads, which joined the South Platte River Trail with its ...