Browning's Courthouse

At or near this crossroads stood the J.P. office of Browning’s Militia District No. 572; cited in reports of Federal military operations July, 1864, as Browning’s Court House.

July 18. Logan’s 15th A.C., enroute from Roswell to Decatur, detoured via Browning’s ...

Decatur and The Civil War in North Alabama

“A Hard Nut To Crack”

Decatur had close to 800 residents in 1860, not many more than the 606 persons counted in the 1850 census. Included in the 1860 census were 267 white males, 206 white females, three free blacks including ...

Glidden State Bank

Glidden State Bank

Circa 1905

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Nominated by

Jerry Hellenbrand - 2006

Marker is on East First Street (County Highway N) east of North Grant Street, on the left when traveling east. ...

War Comes to the Blackwater

During the first three years of the War Between the States, the Franklin railhead was the terminus of the Blackwater - Chowan corridor. The Confederate commissary used this route to deliver the millions of pounds of goods from eastern North ...

Garrard's & Lightburn's to Stone Mountain

The principal object of the wide swing of Federal forces S.E. from Roswell, where they crossed the Chattahoochee, was to cut the Ga. R.R. at & near Stone Mountain, thereby isolating Atlanta from the east.

Pursuant to plan, Logan’s 15th ...

Hood’s Middle Tennessee Campaign and The Battle for Decatur

“A Hard Nut To Crack”

Following the fall of Atlanta on September 2, 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood, Commander of the Army of Tennessee, began a series of maneuvers against the Union line of supply running from Atlanta through Northwest ...

Presbyterian Home For Children

Synod Of Alabama

Originally conceived 1864 as a home for children of Confederate dead by Synod in session at Selma.

Opened at Tuskegee 1868 - relocated in Talladega 1891.

A haven for dependent youth of Alabama providing training, education, and worship in a ...

Battle Of Talladega

Nov. 9, 1813

Here Andrew Jackson led Tennessee Volunteers and friendly Indians to victory over hostile “Red Sticks.”

This action rescued friendly Creeks besieged in Fort Leslie.

Creek Indian War 1813 - 1814.

Marker is at the intersection of East Battle Street and Court ...

Bustling Shipyards

When the first settlers arrived in the Sheboygan area early in the 1830s, they were awed by the seemingly endless verdant pine forests and stands of hardwood that covered the county. With lake transportation the very lifeblood of the early ...

Christ Church- Cambridge

Oldest church building

in Cambridge.

Built in 1760

occupied by

Continental troops

in 1775.

Marker is on Garden Street north of Mason Street, on the left when traveling north.

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