Battle of Great Cane Break

Here along the south side of the creek to Reedy River was fought, Dec. 22, 1775, the Battle of Great Cane Break, between a force of South Carolinians under Colonel William Thompson and a band of Tories under Patrick Cuningham. ...

The Village of Huntersville

The roots of Huntersville began when John and Elizabeth Hilliard purchased this former Shawnee tribal land in 1797 from Ohio's largest land speculator Judge John Symmes. When Symmes defaulted on his payments, the Hilliards found themselves repurchasing their own land ...

Defenders' Monument

Here July 5, 1779 citizens of New Haven with cannon prevented an invading British Army from crossing West River and thereby saved the town from destruction

Marker is at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and Davenport Avenue, in the median on ...

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

1958 - 1975

The flagship of the Oglesbay-Norton fleet sailed for 6857 days on the Great Lakes carrying iron ore to feed the steel mills of Michigan and Ohio. She was built at the Great Lakes Engineering Works at River ...

Victims of the Yellow Fever

In Memory of the

Victims of the Yellow

Fever Epidemics of

1853, 1858, 1867, 1871

and 1887 - 88 who are

Buried in Oaklawn

Marker can be reached from East Harrison Street near North Morgan Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

U.S. Post Office

Prior to the construction of this building in 1915, Sparta's post office was housed in a variety of buildings such as the nearby Masonic Temple. Although the initial federal appropriation for the post office was secured by Congressman John Esch ...

Bellevue, Home of Sen. Benjamin Harvey Hill

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Benjamin Harvey Hill, one of the first to proclaim the New South industrial rather than agricultural, was born at Hillsborough, Jasper County, Sept. 14, 1823. Reared on a farm at Long Lane, Troup County, graduated with first honors at the ...

Birthplace of John Milton Hay

Birthplace of

John Milton Hay

A man of Letters, a Statesman

and a World Renowned Diplomat

of our Country

Marker is on South College Avenue south of East Market Street (a.k.a.: Old State Rd. 160), on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

The Lackawanna Cutoff

The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad started construction on an eleven million dollar connection between Port Morris and Columbia, NJ in 1910. Completed within less than two years, it was an engineering marvel of its time, given that it was ...

Battle of the Blankets

In 1702 a decisive battle took place along the nearby Flint River. Nine hundred Apalachees, in league with the Spanish, fought here against English traders and five hundred of their Creek allies. Forewarned of an impending attack, the Creeks arranged ...