Battle at Stones River

Stones River National Battlefield preserves some key portions of the ground where two great armies of Americans - some 81,000 men - clashed with each other. Their bitter, three-day struggle erupted on New Year's Eve 1862.

To explore their stories, start ...

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

The members of Mount Moriah Baptist Church belong to one of the region's earliest African American congregations, originating in a Sunday school for slaves established in the mid-1800s by Dr. Charles L. Cocke, founder of Hollins College. The group gained ...

The Flowery Branch Depot

Cotton, leather and furniture, as well as manufactured items from the region passed through these walls, as did passengers during its working years (c.1890-1970s) as a Richmond & Danville Railroad and Southern Railway System Depot. Sold to the City of ...

Jefferson Davis Bridge

Jefferson Davis

West Point Graduate

Class of 1828

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Services:

Indian Wars 1829- 1835

Member of Congress 1845-'46

Colonel U.S. Army

Hero of Buena Vista and Monterey

Secretary of War 1853-'57

Senator from Mississippi

1849-'51 1857-'61

President of

Confederate States of America

1861 - 1865

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A tribute from ...

Fort Bowie

National Historic Site

A Regional Legacy

Cochise. Geronimo. Though their reputations were fierce, the Chiricahua Apaches didn't stop explorers, prospectors, settlers, and merchants from Westward immigration. To establish a lifeline between the East and California, the Butterfield Overland Trail was built in ...

Battery M, 1st New York Light Artillery

1st Division, 12th Corps

(Front):Battery M,

1st N.Y. Light Artillery,

1st Division, 12th Corps.

Held this position

July 2d - 3d, 1863.

(Left):Organized

Lockport, N.Y.

Mustered in

Oct. 14, 1861.

Re-enlisted

Dec. 10, 1863.

(Back):Battles:

Winchester, Cedar Mountain, Beverly Ford, ...

Ebenezer Church

According to local tradition, three Methodist meeting houses of the area united c. 1835 to form Ebenezer. An early church building burned in 1855 and was replaced in 1856 by this present building which is listed in the National Register ...

Hottell Insurance Building

Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by The United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on North Capitol Avenue (Indiana Route 337), on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Liar's Bench

1929 - 1986

This original Liar's Bench was located under a shade tree on the corner of Chestnut and Capital from 1929 to 1986. It was a popular and cool place for the men to congregate. Many generations of stories have ...

Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery

(Front):Battery E.

(Knap's)

Penna. Light Artillery

(Front):Mustered in Oct. 1st 1861.

Reenlisted Jan. 1864.

Mustered out June 14th 1865.

At 3:30 p.m. July 2d one gun was placed

on Culp's Hill in the position marked

by a monument, and was joined by two

others at 5 p.m., when the ...