Battle of Griswoldville The Deployment and Assaults

About 1:30 P.M. Nov. 22, 1864, after halting in Griswoldville to reform his column and report his progress, Brig. Gen. P.J. Phillips began moving his command (1st Division, Georgia Militia and attached units) east to clear the town, intending to ...

Appomattox Court House

Here, amidst the once-quiet streets and lanes of Appomattox Court House, Lee, Grant, and their tired armies enacted one of the great dramas in American history.

“General, this is deeply humiliating; but I console myself with the thought that the whole ...

Walker River Reservation

Although the area around Walker Lake in the Utah Territory was set aside for “Indian purposes” in 1859, it was not until 15 years later that President Grant signed the executive order formally establishing the Walker River Indian Reservation, on ...

The Ready Boat Pillar

Sculpted by Seán O'Dwyer

Seeing the meaning

When viewing a piece of sculpture one can see many different layers of meaning. The clues given here are only the first layer of meaning and are meant only as a gateway through which you ...

Battle of Monmouth Monument

There is no plaque on this monument. There are titles under the brass reliefs of historic events that surround the column.

Marker is at the intersection of Monument Street and Court Street and Schanck Street on Monument Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Second Line of the Confederate Defenses

This cannon

marks the location of

the Second Line of the

Confederate Defenses of Richmond

Placed in 1938 by the City of Richmond

at the request of the

Confederate Memorial Literary Society

Marker is on Monument Avenue 0.1 miles west of Roseneath Road, in the median.

Courtesy ...

Salkehatchie Presbyterian Church

This was formerly the site of a

Presbyterian church organized in

1766 by the Reverend Arichibald

Simpson, minister from Scotland.

The church was incorporated on

December 17, 1808. Serving the

church were the Reverends Simpson,

Edward Palmer, and J.B. Van Dyke.

In the cemetery are the ...

The Navy Yard of the Confederate States

On the river shore just below here the Navy Yard of the Confederate States was located and the ships Fredericksburg and Virginia II were launched

This site is dedicated to that spot by the City of Richmond, 1916

Marker is at the ...

Potawatomi "Trail of Death"

Indiana to Kansas, September 4 - November 4, 1838

On September 5, 1838, nearly 850 Potawatomi Indians marched single file through Rochester on the forced removal from Indiana to Western Territory (Kansas). Three chiefs were transported in a jail wagon: ...

First National Bank of Bartlett

Jesse L. Bailey (1848-1926) and his son Charles C. Bailey (1871-1947) opened a private bank in conjunction with a mercantile business in Bartlett in 1898. J. L. Bailey and Son, Bankers, was replaced by the First National Bank of Bartlett ...