Altamont – Confederate Railroad Raid

On April 26, 1863, a detachment of Confederate Capt. John H. McNeill’s partisan rangers attacked the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad facilities here at Altamont. They were part of a larger group that entered Oakland that Sunday as Confederate Gen. William ...

Campaign of 1781

The British cavalryman Tarleton, returning to Cornwallis from a raid to Bedford, passed near here, July, 1781.

Marker is at the intersection of Boydton Plank Road (U.S. 1) and Gatewood Road, on the right when traveling north on Boydton Plank Road. ...

Birthplace of Famed Song

It was in the spring of 1911 that two freshmen at Albion College, Byron D. Stokes and F. Dudleigh Vernor, wrote the words and music for a song they called "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi." The song made a hit ...

The Rosario Defense Line

Presidio San Agustín

The Rosario Defense LineThis earthen embankment re-creates a section of the defense wall that protected Spanish St. Augustine against attack in the 1700s. After crossing the natural moat on the outside of the wall formed by Maria ...

Federal Wire Road

This highway, created by an act of Congress in 1810, entered the state at Augusta passing through Warrenton, Sparta, Milledgeville, Macon and Knoxville to Coweta Town (Columbus). It was formerly known as the Stage Coach Road. A telegraph line, the ...

107th Field Artillery

53rd Brigade - 28th Division

(First Plaque):107th United States Field Artillery

53rd Brigade 28th Division

American Expeditionary ForcesThis monument was erected by the Veterans Association of the 107th Field Artillery in memory of the faithful sons of Pennsylvania who served in this regiment ...

Comfort Road

Named in memory of

Captain Willis E. Comfort, D.S.C.

F Co. 16th Infantry

Killed in action in France

July 18, 1918

Marker is at the intersection of Comfort Road and Clayton Road, on the left when traveling west on Comfort ...

Sumter District Confederate Dead

(East face)

Decr 20

1860

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The

Women

of

Sumter District

to their

Confederate

Dead

— • —

Erected 1876

by

The Ladies Monumental Assoc.

of Sumter District

Deeded to Dick Anderson

Chapter no. 75, Inc.,

United Daughters ...

Battle of Mount Elon

Three miles south of Mount Elon on the night of Feb. 27, 1865, a mounted Union detachment led by Captain William Duncan encountered a superior force of Confederate cavalry commanded by Colonel Hugh K. Aiken. After a sharp hand to ...

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wolf

Jacob Wolf (1812-1874) and wife Adeline Faulkner Wolf (1814-1870) came from Tennessee to Texas about 1850. Obtaining land grant in Burnet County, they settled at Dobyville, and were pioneers, supplying their own provisions, buildings, medicines, and school. Menaced by Indian ...