Fenn's Bridge

On Nov. 27, 1864, the Left Wing (14th and 20th Corps) of Gen. Sherman’s army [US] moved from Sandersville toward Louisville on its destructive March to the Sea. The 20th Corps (Williams) and Carlin’s division, 14th Corps (Davis), moved to ...

LT John Philip Sousa Bandstand

This replica of the 1910 bandstand

upon which LT John Philip Sousa, USN

directed the Naval Training Center Band

was built from original plans in observance

of the Naval Training Center's

75th Anniversary.

Dedicated by NTC Commander

RADM Roberta Hazard, USN

July 2, 1985

Marker is on Decatur Avenue, ...

Alabama Cattlemen’s Association

In This Building The

Alabama Cattlemen’s

Association

was organized on January 4, 1944

The Association has grown to be

the largest state Cattlemen’s

Association in the Nation.

Marker is at the intersection of West Washington Street and North Main Avenue, on the right when traveling east on ...

Blackwater Line - Joyner's Ford

Confederate forces guarded this Blackwater River crossing from 1862 to the end of the Civil War. On 12 Dec. 1862, Capt. J. H. Sikes and soldiers of Company D, 7th Confederate Cavalry, were captured during a dismounted skirmish with elements ...

Civil War Torpedo Boatmen Memorial

In Memory of

The Supreme Devotion of Those Heroic Men

Of the Confederate Army and Navy

First in Marine Warfare

To Employ Torpedo Board

1863 - 1865

Moved by

The Lofty Faith That With Them Died

Crew After Crew

Volunteered

For Enterprises of Extremest Peril

In the Defenses of Charleston Harbor

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Of ...

Building Five

Great Lakes History Trail Stop 4

The Mess Hall and Galley were designed to serve one thousand two hundred eighty men, but during WWI, over five thousand sailors were fed at each meal. The ornamentation on the outside walls of the ...

"Bow and Arrow"

The rock outline you see on the distant bluff is an archeological curiosity. Jacob V. Brower, a Minnesota archeologist, observed this formation in 1902 and interpreted it as a bow and arrow. In 1903 he wrote, "Some of the stones ...

Ridge Spring Cemetery / W.H. Scarborough

[Front]

This cemetery, dating to the early 19th century, was originally the Watson and Boatwright family cemetery before it was enlarged to become the town cemetery. Many descendants of Capt. Michael Watson (1726-1782) are buried in the walled section, built ca. ...

Blackwater Line - Blackwater Bridge

During the Civil War, Confederate forces guarded this Blackwater River crossing as a part of the Blackwater defensive line. On 14 Nov. 1862, Col. Charles C. Dodge, 1st Battalion New York Mounted Rifles, led his troops in a skirmish against ...

C. B. & Q. 5614 Steam Locomotive

• Built July, 1937 in West Burlington,

Iowa by C.B.&Q. at a cost of $99,285.00

• Weight 288 Tons or 576,000 lbs.

• Class 0-5-B Northern Type

• Used in Passenger and Freight Service

• Later Improvements Totaled $107,525.00