Niagara National Historic Sites

Brock's Monument and

Queenston Heights:

This striking commemoration and final resting place of Major General Brock marks the site of the Battle of Queenston Heights. Visitors can climb the 235 stairs to take in spectacular views, or set off on a self-guided ...

Nathan S.S. Beman at Mt. Zion

(Nov. 26, 1785 - Aug. 6, 1871)

Nathan Sidney Beman, Presbyterian minister, educator, editor, college president, after graduating from Middlebury College, Vermont, taught and preached in New England until 1812, when he came with his wife to Georgia to regain his ...

Bell Station

A toll road was built over Pacheco Pass in 1857 by Andrew D. Firebaugh. Later in that same year he built a tavern near this site, which became a Butterfield transcontinental stage stop. In 1859 the Pacific and Atlantic Company ...

William Patrick Lay

(1853-1940)

William Patrick Lay (1853-1940), founder of Alabama Power Company, built his first hydroelectric plant on Big Wills Creek about 2 miles east on Simmons Lane.

Lay purchased the Old Wesson Mill in 1902 and built a small hydroelectric generating plant which ...

Petrus Stuyvesant’s Great House

Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York

PETRUS STUYVESANT'S GREAT HOUSE

Location: Whitehall Street between Pearl & State Streets

Dutch Name: Opt Waeter

Near this site stood the “Great House” of Petrus Stuyvesant (c. 1612-1672), Nieuw Nederland’s last director. A colonial ...

Croatan Indian Community

In 1870 a group of Croatan Indians migrated from their homes in Robeson County North Carolina, following the turpentine industry to southeast Georgia. Eventually many of the Croatans became tenant farmers for the Adabelle Trading Company, growing cotton and tobacco. ...

Battle of Wytheville

Into the Valley of Death

On July 13, 1863, Union Col. John T. Toland led 872 officers and men of

the 34th Regiment Mounted Ohio Volunteer Infantry from Camp Piatt,

West Virginia, into Southwest Virginia to attack the railroads, telegraphs,

and salt and lead ...

Pea Patch Island Heronry

Pea Patch Island Heronry is the largest Atlantic Coast nesting ground north of Florida for wading birds. Originally a dredge disposal site, this vegetated high ground has been a nesting habitat for nine species of wading birds since the 1970s. ...

Gov. William Jonathan Northen

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William Jonathan Northen, Governor of Georgia from 1890 to 1894, lived in this house. Born in Jones County, July 9, 1835 of Scotch ancestry, Governor Northen graduated from Mercer University. He taught for many years at Mt. Zion School in ...

Locating, Moving, and Restoration of the Anthony Shane Log House

A tiny dot on old maps pinpoints a double-log (two story) dwelling on the property owned by Anthony Shane and located at the turn of Shane Road. What was once a thriving pathway from Piqua to Ft. Wayne, running near ...