Confederate Works

Remains of breast-

works on this hill

mark a line of works

built by the Confed-

erates to protect Mill

Creek Bridge.

Marker is on Devil's Racetrack Road (Local Route 1009), on the right when traveling north.

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Forest City Confederate Memorial

To the memory of

Capt. H.D. Lee

and Company D 16th Regiment,

who were the first to leave from

Rutherford County for the

War Between The States

June 3rd, 1861, and

Capt. J.B. Eaves

and Company I 50th Regiment,

who left in April 1862.

Both companies departed ...

U.S. Air Force Atlas Missile Site

The Atlas-F ICBM (operational 1961-65) was an important component of national defense during the Cold War. Twelve Atlas sites, one located half a mile west, were manned by the 551st Strategic Missile Squadron, Lincoln Air Force Base.

On November 22, 1964, ...

Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery

Capt. Joseph B. Campbell, U.S.A. Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Early in the morning this battery advanced from its bivouac north of Jos. Poffenberger's, passing through the North Woods to the ploughed field immediately south of them. One section, ...

Seven Days' Battles Begin

By the final week of June 1862, the Union army lay sprawled east of Richmond, on both sides of the flooded Chickahominy River. General George B. McClellan planned to move that army within artillery range of Richmond; Confederate leader Robert ...

Danish Dairy Cooperative

On March 28, 1885 one of Wisconsin's first incorporated creameries was organized as the Luck Creamery Company. The "Organization Artikler" were published in Danish in the Polk County Press on November 18, 1885, and printed in English about a month ...

Mower’s Attack

Advancing toward Mill

Creek Bridge, Johnston’s

only line of retreat,

Maj. Gen. J. A. Mower’s

Union Division broke

the Confederate line

near this point, March

21. Mower’s Division

reached a point 200

yards from Johnston’s

headquarters before it

was driven back by

Confederate infantry

and cavalry.

Marker is on Scout Road (Local Route 1199), ...

1941 * Naval Air Station Atlanta * 1959

Anticipating America´s involvement in a second world war, the government returned to the site of Camp Gordon in October 1940 and over the next seven

months constructed a 400-acre Naval Reserve Aviation Base at the DeKalb County Airport.

Commissioned in March 1941, ...

Confederate Oak

Please ! Do Not Climb On Tree

This great tree is called the Confederate Oak because according to legend, Confederate Soldiers frequently camped under it.

Marker can be reached from Old Sugar Mill Road, on the left when traveling east.

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First Battle of Petersburg

Kautz’s Effort Stopped Here

In May 1864, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched attacks on Confederate armies across the South. He accompanied Gen. George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac as it fought Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia from ...