Historic Freedom Plains Church

Town of La Grange

Historic

Freedom Plains Church

- ( Presbyterian ) –

Built 1828 – Restored 1970

Chapel 1914 – Community Hall

Education Building 1956

1973 – Women's

Republican Club

Marker is at the intersection of Freedom Plains Road ...

Watauga Purchase

Here, March 19, 1775, at the Sycamore Shoals, the Watauga Association, Charles Robertson, Trustee, bought from the Cherokee, with Oconostota as chief, lands along the Watauga, Holston and Great Canaway (now New) Rivers. The consideration for the purchase was 2000 ...

200th Anniversary of Washington’s Inspection

This commemorative tablet

erected and dedicated in observance of

the 200th anniversary of

General George Washington’s inspection

to Fort Ticonderoga and the Champlain Valley.

July 1783                            July ...

Poughkeepsie Civil War Memorial

[ west side ]

Memorial

To the Patriotism of the Men of

Dutchess and Columbia Counties

Who served in the 128th Regiment

in the Civil War 1861 – 1865

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Till the fame of our fathers

Has melted away,

The Union Pacific Railroad / The Union Pacific Railroad

Part 1 (1867 - 1890) / Part 2 (1869 - 1890)

Part i

The story of the Union Pacific Railroad is also a story of Wyoming and particularly Cheyenne. One cannot be told without the telling of the other. It is no ...

Military Post / Potter's Raid

Military Post

After the Civil War ended in 1865, a Federal military occupation garrison was located for sometime in this area of Sumter. Known locally as "Yankee Camp," the post contained officers' quarters, barracks, and a guard house. Here sentinels ...

Parson Capen House

Parson Capen House

has been designated a

National Historc Landmark

This site possesses national signficance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America

Marker is on Howlett Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Stonewall’s Surprise

Banks’s Fort

In the spring of 1862, U.S. Army Capt. Edward Hunt, an engineer, constructed a fortification on the hill where the Strasburg water tower now stands. Hunt selected the hill "because it had an effective command over the roads, the ...

Potter's Headquarters / Federal Order Of Battle

(Front text)

Potter's Headquarters

Federal troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Edward E. Potter, on a raid through this area in the last days of the Civil War, advanced to Sumter after defeating a small Confederate force at Dingle’s Mill on April ...

The Sandy Springs

This community is named for the natural springs bubbling up through clear white sand in the meadow below. The Springs were a Cherokee and Creek Indian campsite which became the property of the orphans of John Medows of Henry County ...