Tom Thumb

Charles S. Stratton

This monument is a memorial to Charles S. Stratton, a native of Bridgeport, who gained worldwide fame as Tom Thumb in the exhibitions of P.T. Barnum. The lifesize statue was erected before Tom Thumb's death on July ...

Ledbetter Salt Works CSA

Located 8 miles southwest on Salt Prong, Hubbard Creek. Discovered 1861 by trail drives. W. H. Ledbetter began extensive development of deposits in 1862 with increased Civil War demand for salt. A large furnace was built, kettles and materials for ...

J. Scott Garbry

J. Scott Garbry, a 1986 inductee into the Ohio Conservation Hall of Fame, had a lifelong commitment and passion for conservation, historic preservation, and education. His gift of land and artifacts to the Upper Valley JVS led to the creation ...

Big Gun at Howison Hill

Two weeks of Union delay before the Battle of Fredericksburg gave the Confederates time to bring up large cannons rarely seen on other battlefields in Virginia. The sturdy gun emplacements above you protected a huge siege gun, capable of firing ...

Captain Adam Bettin

In memory of

Captain Adam Bettin

Shot in the Mutiny

Jan.1, 1781.

Erected by the

Morristown Chapter

D.A.R.

Marker is on Jockey Hollow Road, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hickory Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery

(Front text)

This church, founded by 1869 with Rev. G.D. Kinard as its first pastor and 22 charter members, was admitted to the Barnwell Association that year. The congregation first met in a brush arbor, then built a log church ...

Drewry’s Bluff

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

John Smith recalled visiting the Arrohateck Indian capital during a May 1607 expedition led by Christopher Newport. The town was located on the northern shore of the James River opposite of here and was ...

Captain L.D. Bradley

(1831 - 1886)

Came to Texas from Alabama in 1855. Civil War commanded Co.B, 2nd Battalion, Waul's Texas Legion. On May 22, 1863, was a leader of one of most daring defensive actions in the Siege of Vicksburg. Volunteered, along with ...

Court Street Baptist Church

The congregation was organized in 1843,

when Lynchburg’s African American Baptists

were separated from First Baptist Church.

The new African Baptist Church of Lynchburg met in a converted theater. It was demolished in 1879, after the deaths of eight people during a panic ...

Leduc-Woodbend Oil Field

Le Site Pétrolifière Leduc-Woodbend

The development of this field in 1947 marked a turning point in the history of the Alberta petroleum industry. After the drilling of Leduc No. 1, the geographical focus of the industry shifted from Turner Valley northward ...