Georgia's State Capital

Augusta served as the capital of Georgia

from 1785 until 1795 when the seat of

government was moved to the new capital,

Louisville. The Georgia General Assembly

met at this site in a two-story building on

the corner of Elbert (Fourth) and Bay

Streets. The building ...

Hon. George W. P. Hunt

1859 – 1934

Globe, Gila County, Arizona

Apache Warrior Stronghold

and Pioneer Home of

Hon. George W. P. Hunt

1859 – 1934

Member various Territorial Legislatures, President Arizona Constitutional Convention, Arizona's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th and 10th Governor. Elected Governor more times than any ...

Monticello Wine Company

The Monticello Wine Company’s four-story brick building was located on the middle of Perry Drive on the north side. Founded in 1873 using grapes from local vineyards, it operated until about the time Prohibition began in Virginia in Nov. 1916. ...

The First Successful Flight of an Airplane

was made from this spot by

Orville Wright

December 17, 1903, in a machine designed and built by

Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright

This tablet was erected by the

National Aeronautic Association

of the U.S.A. December 17, 1928

to commemmorate the twenty-fifth

anniversary of this event

Marker can be ...

First Baptist Church Of Springville

Organized March 22, 1817

Originally chartered as Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

Charter member and first pastor was Sion Blythe

who served for 17 years.

The oldest church in St. Clair County.

Presbyterian and Methodist denominations used

the church building before turn of century.

Name of ...

El Capitan Pass

This pass was used by Kearny's Army of the West in a march to California in 1846. Guided by Kit Carson it was described in a journal of the trip as "Carson's Old Trail”. The pass led around the impassable ...

Pivot Point

600 yards west, intersection of the baseline and the second principal meridian, the lines fixed in 1805 by Ebenezer Buckingham, to govern land survey in Indiana under the Ordinance of 1785.

Marker is at the intersection of Indiana Route 37 and ...

Opening Shots

"Look Out for Your Left!"

Confederates were spread out along this ridge - 1100 men commanded by Col. Nathan "Shanks" Evans. At first light, Federals east of Stone Bridge sent a cannon shell screaming overhead. Skirmishers from both sides opened a ...

Pinson, Alabama

Pinson, one of Alabama’s oldest communities, was settled by General Andrew Jackson’s soldiers in the early 1800s, after victory at Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812. The community was originally known as Hagood’s Crossroads for settler Zachariah Hagood and ...

Hard Duty on the Plains

Military records, diaries and letters of those who survived life at the post reveal a

saga of fraud and corruption, bravery and daring-do...triumph and tragedy...where conditions were considered unlivable, pleasures were few and the nearest bath was the South Platte River." ...