Marina Isle

Marina Isle was designated by the City of Sanford in 1964 to improve the boat basin created by Memorial Park and the Palmetto Avenue Jetty. The 13 acre, $2 million dollar island was built with fill pumped from the bottom ...

Site of First Baptist Church

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, two black preachers, first Moses, then Gowan Pamphlet, began holding religious services out of doors for free blacks and slaves in the Williamsburg area. Although identified as an organized Baptist church by ...

Hot Shot and Wooden Ships

It was the end of an era: the advent of the ironclad made traditional wooden-hulled warships obsolete. Despite this, the Confederates used a centuries-old device here: the hot-shot furnace. Inside the furnace, solid shot were heated red-hot. Clay wads of ...

A Perfect Gibraltar

After the repulse of the Union Navy on May 15, 1862, Drewry’s Bluff became famous as a tangible symbol of Confederate resistance. Work crews made up of impressed slave labor continued construction of the fort, eventually completing a four-sided, enclosed ...

Camp Beall

“Drewry’s Bluff, at least for the present, is the headquarters of the Corps, and I may consequently reasonably expect to stay here for some time at least.”

Henry Lea Graves, 1862

From 1862 to 1865, the training of Confederate Marines took place ...

Harmony Hill Camp Meeting

1846

A two-week camp meeting was organized here as early as 1846 by North Iredell Protestants.

It continues today on the second Sunday in October as a one-day event.

Harmony School is built on the original site.

Marker is at the intersection of Little ...

Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church

Established in 1837; present church built in 1849-50. The first Presbyterian church in Wilkes County.

Marker is on East Main Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Windsor's Crossroads

Stoneman's Raiders Pass By

(Preface):

On March 24, 1865, Union Gen. George Stoneman led 6,000 cavalrymen from Tennessee into southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina to disrupt the Confederate supply line by destroying sections of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, the North ...

Lincolnville War of 1812 Cannon

This cannon

was stationed at

Lincolnville beach for the

protection of this village

during the War of 1812

Restored to

this original location

on May 18, 1957

by Edwin W. Kibbe

who gave it to the people

of the Town of Lincolnville

Marker is on Atlantic Highway (U.S. 1) 0.1 miles ...

Titan I Missile

This is the site of Confederate Air Force Pad No. 1

Holding 98', this giant missile was dismantled in California and flown to Warner Robins Air Force Base. The missile was then transported along I-75 to Cordele.

The Rotory Club of Cordele ...