Home of Lucy Holcombe Pickens

The "Queen of the Confederacy" was born here January 11, 1832. In 1858 she married Francis Pickens, United States Ambassador to Russia and later Governor of South Carolina. During the Civil War, Lucy was the only woman honored by having ...

Site of Mount Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery

Post Marker:

Known as

Old Swack Church

Erected 1844

Builder Jacob Swackhammer

In use until 1896

Small marker on concrete post:

Mount Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church

(Commonly known as the Swack Church)

Built in 1844 - In use until about 1900

Plaque prepared by

Watchung Area Council, B. S. A.

Marker is ...

Battle of Moscow

"The river seemed like running blood"

By late in 1863, the Union army occupying West Tennessee strongly defended the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, which ran eastward from Memphis through Moscow. Federal infantry, including the U.S. Colored Troops of the 2nd West ...

St. Thomas' African Episcopal Church

Organized in 1792 as an outgrowth of the Free African Society, formed 1787. The original church edifice stood here. Under the ministry of the Rev. Absalom Jones (1746-1818), a former slave, this became the nation's first Black Episcopal church.

Marker ...

St. Augustine Confederate Memorial

(Front):Our Dead.

In Memoriam

our

Loved Ones

Who gave up Their Lives

in the service

of

The Confederate States

Peter Masters.

John M. Llambias.

Michael G. Llambias.

Antonio Mickler.

George Mickler.

Jacob Mickler.

Joseph Noda.

Eusebio Pagetti.

Frank Papy.

Edward ...

364th Fighter Group

383rd, 384th, 385th Fighter Sqdns & Support Units

A Memorial to Those Who Served

in the 364th Fighter Group

Missions 342

Enemy A/c destroyed 455

Honington, England, 8th Air Force

1944-1945

Activated - 25 May 1943,

Deactivated - 10 Nov 1945

Dedicated - 19 September 1986

Courtesy hmdb.org

Saint Mary of the Springs Academy / Anne O'Hare McCormick 1880-1

Side A:

Saint Mary of the Springs Academy

On this site stood St. Mary of the Springs Academy, a school for girls first founded by the Dominican Sisters in 1830 in Somerset, Ohio, to respond to the educational needs of frontier Catholics. ...

Carl Frederick Zeidler

January 4, 1908 – November 7, 1942

Milwaukee born and educated, lawyer Carl F. Zeidler became Milwaukee’s 33rd mayor in April, 1940, when he defeated Daniel W. Hoan, Socialist mayor since 1916. In April, 1942, Zeidler left office to enter ...

Battle of Collierville

An Unexpected Guest

Collierville's location on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad made it strategically important throughout the Civil War. Frequently occupied by Union forces, the town found itself in the gun sights of Confederate cavalrymen intent on severing Federal lines of ...

Sunken Fleet

Fall 1758 British/Americans sank Radeau Land Tortoise, Sloop Halifax, 260 bateaux to avoid plunder by French raiding parties

Marker is on Lower Amherst Street near U.S. 9, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org