Pioneer Hickstown Baptist Church

The first Baptist church of Madison

Begun here for God's glory in 1835, the church was named Madison Baptist Church in 1854 and received its present name in 1922. Founders were Abraham Moseley and R.J. Mays. Early pastors were B. ...

Artillery Protects the Supply Line

From this ideal position, Loomis' Battery (1st Michigan Light Artilery - six 2.9" Parrott rifles and Guenther's Battery Co. H, 5th U.S. Artillery - six 12 pdr. Napoleons) smashed Confederate attempts to capture the Nashville Pike, the only supply line ...

1849 Plank Road

Route of a toll road from

Amsterdam to Fish House. It

linked the rural economy of

the Sacandaga Vly to rail

& canal access in Amsterdam

Marker is on South 2nd Ave 0.1 miles south of West Main Street ...

Bradwell Park

1974

In Memory of Samuel Dowse Bradwell

Founder of Bradwell Institute

on this site in 1871

Built by City of Hinesville

with assistance from HUD and

Liberty County Garden Garden Clubs

( Mayor and List of Councilmen )

Marker is on South Commerce Street near Midway Street, on ...

Central Presbyterian Church

This church which had its origins in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was first mentioned at a meeting of the Presbytery on April 7, 1812. It became known as First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Huntsville, Alabama. In 1828 the first building ...

Stafford's Point

One of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300," William J. Stafford (1764-1840), founded the settlement of Stafford's Point on the 6819.7-acre land grant he received in the winter of 1824. Bringing his family and slaves from his Louisiana sugar plantation, he ...

John Speer Farmstead

Murphy-Bromelsick House

Abolitionist John Speer established a farmstead on this site shortly after his arrival in Kansas Territory in September 1854. A newspaper publisher from Pennsylvania, Speer became a part of the struggle to bring Kansas into the Union as a ...

St. Joseph's Valley Camp

"I did not see it multiplied, but saw it there!"

About 80,000 Union troops settled here in Saint Joseph's Valley as June 1863 drew to a close, "until the grounds around were actually covered with Soldiers." Emmitsburg was placed under martial ...

River Pumps

In 1895 pumps were installed at the confluence of the Yuba and Feather Rivers to protect the City of Marysville from the danger of flooding.

These pumps with a capacity to pump 18,265 gallons per minute, helped to keep Marysville dry ...

Martha Washington's Birthplace

About two miles northeast stood Chestnut Grove, the plantation home of John and Frances Jones Dandridge, where Martha Dandridge, the eldest of eight children, was born on 2 June 1731. She lived there until 15 May 1750, when she married ...