Seven Days Battles

Gaines's Mill

Stonewall Jackson reached this point in the afternoon of June 27, 1862, after a circuit of Gaines's Mill. When he learned that A. P. Hill and Longstreet to the west were hard pressed, he moved south to join in ...

Seven Days' Battles

Jackson's March to the Battefields

Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and his troops passed through this intersection on 27 June 1862, having arrived from the Shenandoah Valley. Jackson's troops united with Gen. Robert E. Lee's forces just south of here ...

South Carolina State University

(Marker Front):

S.C. State University was founded in 1896

as the Colored Normal, Industrial,

Agricultural & Mechanical College of S.C. with its

origins in the Morrill Land Grants Acts of

1862 and 1890 providing for land-grant

colleges. Intended "for the best education

of the hand, head, ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The Laboratory opened September 2, 1952 at this site, initially as a branch of the University of California Radiation Laboratory. Prior to the Lab's opening, this 630-acre parcel was the site of Livermore Naval Air Station, a World War II ...

Doctor Jonathan Potts

On this site was the house occupied by Dr. Jonathan Potts; Deputy Director General, 1777-1780, of Northern and Middle Departments of the Continental Army.

Marker is on Penn Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ventilation Shaft

“Regular Army wiseacres said it was not feasible – that I could not carry the ventilation that distance without digging a hole to the surface… But I have succeeded.”

- Lt. Col. Henry Pleasants, 48th Pennsylvania July 23, 1864

The most ...

Battle of Griswoldville

On Nov. 22, 1864, the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of Gen. Sherman’s army [US] moved SE from Clinton (near Gray) towards Gordon and Irwinton on its destructive March to the Sea. Walcutt’s brigade, with two guns of Arndt’s ...

Columbia Triumphant Park and Statue

Liberty Triumphant

Monmouth County Historical Site

Columbia Triumphant Park

This granite carving of Columbia Triumphant–also known as Liberty Triumphant–was part of the original statue placed atop the monument located on nearby Court Street commemorating the June 28, 1778 Battle of Monmouth, a major ...

The Great Pine

This huge log was cut from a mighty white pine which grew southwest of the armory on 2nd Avenue South in Wisconsin Rapids and escaped the axe of the lumberjacks for many decades. The tree was 181 years of age. ...

Confederate Monument

(Front face):To the Confederate soldiers of Colleton County, SC

To those who fought and lived

To those who fought and died

To those who gave much

And to those who gave all

(Rear face):

To the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of Colleton County Who fought ...