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[ Front of Monument ]

Loyalists American Regiments 1775-84

This monument has been erected by a grateful province to commemorate the services of His Majesty's Forces in North America, 1775-84 In particular the following which were disbanded as units and settled along ...

Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn and the Civil Rights Act

On the night of July 11, 1964 three African-American World War II veterans returning home following training at Ft. Benning, Georgia were noticed in Athens by local members of the Ku Klux Klan. The officers were followed to the nearby ...

W.C. Trout and the Counter-Balanced Pumping Unit

The son of an early industrial engineer, W.C. Trout (1874-1947) came to Lufkin in 1905 and joined Lufkin Foundry & Machine Co. as a shareholder and company secretary. Already a successful inventor, Trout led the diversification of the shop from ...

The James W. Rossetter House

James Wadsworth Rossetter, Sr., came to Eau Gallie in 1902. He purchased this property in 1903. The house was built before the War Between the States and is on the former site of the Houston family's slave quarters. One member ...

The Dilbone Massacre

In memory of

Henry and Barbara Dilbone

who were killed by the Indians

on their farm to the north

August 18th, 1813

Buried at this place

Marker is on U.S. 36, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Memorial to Our Sons and Daughters Who Served Their Country in t

Memorial to Our Sons and

Daughters Who Served Their Country

in the World War 1914-1918

Dedicated in grateful recognition by the

People of Watertown May 30th 1921

[Names on the northwest face:]

Earl D Anderson • J H Haydn Bryan • John J Egan • Nelson ...

The Stoneman Raid

Closing in on Atlanta in July, 1864, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman found it "too strong to assault and too extensive to invest". To force its evacuation, he sent Maj. Gen. Geo. Stoneman’s cavalry [US] to cut the Macon railway by ...

The Iron Titans Tame the Marsh?

The Waterways

The Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Gains Steam

By 1850, larger steam driven commercial carriers needed a faster, deeper and wider passage to market than the hand dug Dismal Swamp Canal, a few miles west of here. Digging the Dismal Swamp ...

The Peacemaker

“Let them surrender and go home, they will not take up arms again. Let them all go, officers and all, let them have their horses to plow with, and, if you like, their guns to shoot crows. Treat them liberally ...

The G.A. Carlson Lime Kiln

The G.A. Carlson Lime Kiln, built in 1882 on the northeast end of Barn Bluff (Mt. LaGrange), is typical of approximately thirty such kilns in use in the Red Wing area during the period from 1870 to 1908. Gustavus Adolphus ...