Liberty County Confederate Monument

1861-1865

War Between The States

"Lord God of hosts

defend us yet

Lest we forget.

lest we forget."

Marker is on Court Street near South Commerce Street, in the median.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Bear Pit

Merriam Historic Plaza

The Bear Pit Bronze sculpture by artist Kwan Wu. Dedicated and installed 2006.

This sculpture by artist Kwan Wu represents the City of Merriam's first public sculpture installation. The mother bear and cubs celebrate one of the most popular ...

Curles Neck and Bremo

Curles Neck may take its name from the curls of the river or a family of that name. Richard Cocke, the Immigrant, patented land along the James River on the eastern side of the neck in 1636. There he built ...

Nathaniel Bacon

Bacon was born in 1647 in Suffolk, England, and was educated at Cambridge University. He came to Virginia in 1673 and settled near here on the north bank of the James River at Curles Neck. In 1676 Bacon led a ...

Petersburg Defenses

Batteries 35-38

You are facing Battery 37 in the 10-mile-long Confederate defensive line constructed between 1862 and 1864 east and south of Petersburg. Named the Dimmock Line for supervising engineer Capt. Charles H. Dimmock, it consisted of trenches linking 55 earthen ...

Sunbury Cemetery

In this cemetery are buried men and women whose lives contributed much to the early history of Georgia.

Among these were the Rev. Wm. McWhir, D.D., and his wife. the Rev. Mr. McWhir was for 30 years the Principal of the ...

Battle of Eltham’s Landing

A vast array of equipment and thousands of troops

By May 4, 1862, Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s army was retreating west toward Richmond from Yorktown as Union Gen. George B. McClellan’s army followed. McClellan, to accelerate the Federal advance on ...

The Sunbury Cemetery

( Left Text )

The plan of Sunbury consisted of three community-owned squares: King's Square, Meeting Square, and Church Square. You are standing in the area that was once

Church Square. This 350 by 350-foot area held the church to the ...

Strokestown Brewery

Brewery here in

early 18th century

Marker is on Bawn Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battery 31

Confederate Defense Line

Part of the original Confederate defense line constructed in 1862 – 1863. On April 2, 1865, the battery located in this position took part in stopping a heavy Union attack at Fort Mahone, one third of a mile ...