Campaign for Atlanta: Johnston's Review

On April 19, 1864, General Joseph E. Johnston reviewed the Confederate Army of Tennessee on this ridge. After his appointment in December 1863, Johnston rebuilt a defeated and demoralized army following Confederate General Braxton Bragg's defeat at the Battle of ...

Hopkins Farm

[Marker Front]:

This farm has been owned by the Hopkins family since 1834, when John Hopkins (1793-1837) purchased it from William Toney. The Greek Revival main house was built ca. 1840, with later additions ca. 1890 and ca. 1925. Hopkins' widow, ...

Moapa Valley

Rich in prehistoric, pueblo-type culture, and noted by the explorer Jedediah Smith in 1826, Moapa Valley is crossed by the Old Spanish Trail.

In 1865 Brigham Young sent 75 families to settle the area, to grow cotton for the people of ...

Memorial to Arizona Confederate Troops

Memorial to

Arizona Confederate Troops

1861 - 1865

United Daughters of the Confederacy

1961

"A Nation That Forgets its Past has no Future"

Marker can be reached from Adams Street 0.1 miles west of 15th Avenue and Adams.

Courtesy hmdb.org

S.C.L.C. and the Voter Education Program 1962-1970

Dorchester Academy

Citizenship Schools

Dorchester Cooperative Center played a key role in the struggle for civil rights and the vote.

In 1954, Septima Clarke, a school teacher from Charleston, SC and Esau Jenkins, a farmer and school bus driver from Johns Island, SC, ...

The Military Order of The Purple Heart

The Purple Heart was established by General George Washington in 1782. At that time it was called Badge of Military Merit. In 1932 it became known as the Purple Heart and is awarded only for combat wounded veterans.

Some Gave All ...

1910 Post Office Building

Established in 1884, the original Marble Falls Post Office was built south of the Colorado River. William P. Cochran, appointed postmaster in 1901, built this structure in 1910 and leased it to the U. S. Government for use as a ...

Pauline Bray Fletcher

1878 - 1970

In Tribute to

Pauline Bray Fletcher

1878 - 1970

The First Black Registered Nurse of Alabama

Through self-sacrifice, perseverance founded in 1926 Camp Pauline Bray Fletcher.

Renewing the faith and the good health of all black children.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Center Point, Alabama

A Great New City Springs Forth

In 1700s, Native Americans occupied the Springs property. Robert Reed's family arrived in the area from North Carolina in 1816. They obtained a land grant; soon others moved to the area. In 1871, Dave Franklin ...

Piper

The town of Piper was established in 1901 a half mile of northeast of here by the Little Cahaba Coal Company, named for Oliver Hazzard Perry Piper, a partner of industrialist Henry F. DeBardeleben. Two coal mines were opened in ...