This Fraternity House

This fraternity house, built in 1930, has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. Mu Chapter of Sigma Chi. Chartered March 2, 1868.

Marker is on Fraternity Row north of Sunset ...

Lunenburg County Confederate Monument

In memory of the

Confederate Soldiers

of Lunenburg County,

and the cause for which

they fought from

1861 to 1865

(side)

The fame and deeds

of heroes wil live

(rear)

We fought for

the sovereignty

of the states

(side)

Our patriotic

womanhood

was an inspiration

Marker is at the intersection of Courthouse Road and Hardy road, on ...

Hulihe‘e Palace

Hulihe‘e Palace was built in 1838 by

Governor John Adams Kuakini, a companion of

Kamehahena I and one of the first Chiefs

to take up western ways.

Built of coral lava rock and a native woods,

it was handsomely furnished. ...

Hardee’s March Turned N.E. on Fayetteville Road

July 21, 1864. Theses troops and Wheeler’s Cav. (CS) were sent from Atlanta on a 15-mile night march to gain the rear of McPherson’s Army of the Tenn. (US) in E. Atlanta. Hardee moved out of the city via McDonough ...

St Mary's Catholic Church

With the founding of the Greenville

Missions in 1852 this parish,

dedicated to Our Lady of the Sacred

Heart of Jesus, became the Mother

Church of Catholicism in the twelve

counties of Upstate South Carolina

which comprise the Piedmont Deanery

of the Diocese of Charleston.

Marker is on ...

Pipeline History

On November 16, 1973, through Presidential approval of pipeline legilation, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company received

permission to begin construction of the 800-mile trans Alaska pipeline, its pump stations and the Marine Terminal at

Valdez. The 360-mile road from the Yukon ...

Parker Drayton House

circa 1800

Isacc Parker built the original house about 1800 when the waterside of the Ashley River lay along the garden. Colonel William Drayton greatly enlarged the house after 1816, and decorated in the Adam style from 1837 to 1899. ...

Seamless Tube Industry

A block away was the plant in which Ralph C. Stiefel, the Swiss-born engineer, invented the rotary piercing process for making steel tubing, 1895. He helped found Ellwood Weldless Tube Co., which became a nucleus for the National Tube Div. ...

Fort Walker

Southeastern salient of Atlanta’s inner line of (CS) fortifications erected during the Summer & Fall of 1863. The line consisted of a cordon of redoubts on hills connected by rifle pits encircling the city, aggregating some 10.5 miles of earthworks ...

Joshua Meeks

(1731-1818)

A militia captain during the American Revolution and civic leader in the early republic, Meeks was a petitioner to create Allegheny County in 1787. While making his living as a farmer, he took up arms to defend western Pa. during ...