Tom Brooks Park

Herbert Thomas Brooks served in community leadership roles for over 50 years. His leadership and vision affected almost every facet of the community and can be seen in the physical beauty of Collierville's landscape as well as the design of ...

Bay View's Rolling Mill

Near this site in Bay View stood the Milwaukee Iron Company rolling mill, the first major heavy industry in the region and an important producer of iron and steel for the Midwest. The mill, which opened in 1868, transformed ore ...

Bamberg County

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Ehrhardt Hall

This restored 19th century mansion located in

the town of Ehrhardt is a bed and breakfast

and features six guest rooms with amenities

including fireplaces.

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Olar Sinclair Station

In 1929, Rubye Morris opened this Sinclair Gas

Station ...

Henry Roddenberry

Memorial to Henry Roddenberry

Born 1803 – Died 1861

Son of George Roddenberry (1758 – 1850)

A Soldier in the American Revolution

Settled near Traders Hill about 1835

Indian War Mounted Soldier 1838 – 1839

A first citizen of Charlton County, he was its first Tax ...

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 ...

Wiawaka Bateaux

7 French and Indian War bateaux sunk here in 1758. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Marker can be reached from County Route 9L 1.5 miles north of U.S. 9.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Riceborough

Near the old North Newport Bridge, a short distance East of here, the Court House Square for Liberty County was laid out by Act of February 1, 1797. Riceborough was then the Seat of justice for Liberty County, and a ...

Shelby County / Memphis

Shelby County

Established 1819; named in honor of ISAAC SHELBY who, along with Andrew Jackson, as appointed United States Commissioner; together they arranged the purchase of the Western District from the Chickasaw Indian Nation in 1818.

Memphis

Founded 1819, by Andrew Jackson, John ...

Kilbourntown

In this vicinity, Kilbourntown, one of the three original Milwaukee settlements, was founded by surveyor and land speculator Byron Kilbourn in 1835. Kilbourntown’s first residents were entrepreneurs from the East. In 1839, a small group of German immigrants from Pomerania ...

The Burnet Bulletin

Established in the early 1870s, this weekly newspaper has been in continuous operation for more than one hundred years. The first editor on record was George Whitaker, who served in that position until 1874. In 1898, the paper was sold ...