Hood's Retreat

Dec. 16, 1864

In this neighborhood, late in the evening of his decisive defeat at Nashville, Hood reorganized his army for withdrawal southward. Lt. Gen. Stephen D. Lee's Corps, supported by Chalmers' Cavalry Division, covered the withdrawal, fighting continuously until the ...

Forge Seat

Forge Seat was built in 1808 by Samuel Crockett III, one of a large family of Crocketts who settled on extensive tracts of land in this area during the late 1700's. The house took its name from an iron forge ...

Battle of Dunlawton Plantation

During the 2nd Seminole War, 1836, the Mosquito Roarers, a company of Florida militia under Major Benjamin Putnam, engaged a large band of Seminoles pillaging Dunlawton, a sugar plantation on the Halifax River. Heavy fighting ensued, but the militiamen were ...

Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

Side A:

Among the first in America, Cincinnati's public library dates from March 14, 1853. A public reading room opened in 1856, but funding remained a problem until 1867, when local school board president Rufus King II secured legislation ...

Cincinnati Fire Fighters

In Memory

of the

Cincinnati Fire Fighters

who died in the line of duty

serving in the first paid

professional fire department

in the United States

Marker is at the intersection of 5th Street (U.S. 27) and Central Avenue, ...

Oconee County Confederate Monument

[East Side]:

This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Confederate Soldiers by the women of Oconee County. These gallant soldiers gave their lives for the principle of states rights, for the protection of their homes, and in defence of ...

The Alloway Creek Watershed

Wetland Restoration Site

The Alloway Creek Watershed

Wetland Restoration SiteThe Alloway Creek Watershed Site encompasses approximately 3,096 acres of wetland and upland edge in Elsinboro and Lower Alloway Creek Township, Salem County. This site follows the north side of the Alloway Creek ...

Railroads Eclipse a National Road

“Thus will scientific power conquer space.”

For several decades in the early 1800s, thousands of Conestoga Wagons, “ships of inland commerce,” ruled the National Road. With their sloping bodies, wheels taller than a man and six-horse teams

skillfully maneuvered with a single ...

War Between the States

1861-1865

Dedicated to the brave and gallant Confederate soldiers and their families of Western Pickens District (Oconee County) who despite great hardships gave their blood and earthly possessions in defense of states rights and their beloved south land.

May we never forget ...

The National Road

The Road that Built the Nation

“. . . so many happy people, restless in the midst of abundance.” —Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840.

Americans are an adventurous people. From

past to present, they have used feet, horses,

wagons, stagecoaches, canals, ...