“…a truly affectionate wife”

Frances "Fanny" H. Peachy, like most women buried here, remains largely anonymous. The daughter of a local minister, Frances H. Andrews (1799-1822) married Baltimore saddlemaker Thomas G. Peachy on February 28, 1821. Less than a year later she was dead.

Life at Belvoir

Belvoir bustled with activities typical of estates during this era. Family members, slaves, and guests were part of daily life at Belvoir. Nearby plantation residents traveled in the same circles, the Fairfaxes, the Washingtons, and the Masons were active in ...

Two Future Presidents In Wartime Retreat

Hanging Rock Battlefield Trail

On June 21, 1864, two future presidents marched with Major General David Hunter’s Army of Western Virginia on its retreat from Lynchburg to West Virginia by way of Hanging Rock and the old New Castle Turnpike.

Colonel ...

McCausland Attacks

Hanging Rock Battlefield Trail

Near the site, on the morning of June 21, 1864, Union Major General David Hunter’s ambulances, artillery, and supply and munitions wagons crossed the ford at Mason’s Creek. The wagon train stalled, and was left unprotected because ...

Battle Branch

September 2, 1864

The only battle fought in Coffee County during The War Between the States

Just east of this spot, at the branch head, a battle occurred between the Coffee County Home Guards and Ward’s Raiders, a group of Confederate deserters ...

Donnell -V.- State, 1852

Side one:

Luther Donnell was convicted in Decatur Circuit Court (1849) of aiding fugitive slaves, Caroline and her four children, to escape to Canada. In Donnell v. State, Indiana Supreme Court reversed the conviction, claiming that under U.S. Supreme Court decision ...

Flat Rock Cemetery Veterans Monument

Serving Country

and

Jesus Christ

Veterans Who Are buried

in Flat Rock Cemetery

[Left Column]

Harry Drake, Daniel Y. Culbertson, J.C. Culbertson, Luther M. Borders, John T Neims, Charles A. Thornton, Berry Faine, Edward Graham, Charles A. Smith, Robert Lee Coker, Russell W. Adams, Fred Walter ...

The Latta Library

In 1911 W. C. Allen led a movement for a public library in Latta and was authorized by the town council to negotiate with Andrew Carnegie for funds. After the town complied with conditions set by Mr. Carnegie, he donated ...

Site of Chivers Plantation and Store

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At this crossroads stood the store and drug shop of Col. Robert Chivers, father of Georgia’s “lost poet,” Dr. Thomas Holley Chivers. Born at his father’s plantation home nearby in 1809, Dr. Chivers graduated in medicine at Transylvania Univ. in ...

Maham Plantation

Burial place of

Col. Hezekiah Maham

A native of St. Stephen's Parish

Berkeley County, South Carolina

Born 1739 Died 1789

He was a distinguished soldier and

patriot of the American Revolution

Marker is at the intersection of Colonel Maham Drive and Westfield Drive, on ...