Burial site of "Elsie"

The Borden Cow

Elsie, a purebred Jersey cow with enormous

brown eyes was chosen to be the

advertising symbol for the Borden Company.

This became one of the best known and most successful

icons in the history of American marketing.

Elsie was featured at the Borden ...

The Cornfield

Perryville

During the Battle of Perryville, a field of ten-foot high cornstalks, brown and dry from a severe drought, covered this valley. Obscured among the corn, 800 members of the 21st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment waited. In the army for less than ...

Defense of Parsons’ Ridge

Perryville

As Maney’s Confederates reached the top of this hill they watched the fleeing Union soldiers retreat into the valley in front of you. The Southerners had lost hundreds of men killed and wounded during the fight to take this ridge, ...

Defense of Parsons’ Ridge

Perryville

Union Brigadier General William Terrill was nearly panic-stricken. To his surprise, thousands of Confederates swarmed over the fields in front of you, moving toward the Federal lines. The shouts of attacking Southern troops and the crescendo of gunfire echoed among ...

Wisconsin’s First Iron Smelter

Mayville was founded in 1845 by Alvin and William Foster and Chester and S.P. May. Iron ore was discovered by these men approximately four miles south of Mayville. A quantity of the ore was taken to the nearest iron smelter ...

Moorefield Memorial Highway, (Southern Terminus)

(U.S. Route 178)

In Memory Of

Charles Henry Moorefield

State Highway Engineer

of South Carolina

1920 — 1935

Marker is on East Main Street / Moorefield Memorial Highway (U.S. 178) near U.S. 78, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hollenstein Wagon and Carriage Factory

The building occupied by the Mayville Historical Society Museum was built by John J. Hollenstein, Sr., as his home, wagon and carriage factory. Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in 1842; he married Dominica Zuest and emigrated to the United States ...

Prince George Winyah Parish / Prince Frederick’s Parish

(1721) / (1834)

Prince George Winyah Parish (1721). Early settlement in this area near the Black River, based primarily on the Indian trade and the production of naval stores, prompted the creation of Prince George Winyah Parish in 1721. When the ...

Confederate Gun Shop

When the states of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee grew short of arms in 1863, Governor Shorter of Alabama and President Jefferson Davis persuaded Major O. O. Nelson of Tuscumbia, Alabama, to organize a company to erect a Gun Shop. ...

Confederate Cemetery

3,000 Confederate dead from every southern state are buried in this cemetery. First established for [CS] soldiers killed in a railroad collision in 1863, it became the resting place for dead from nearby battlefields. In 1866, under the direction of ...