Mystery Shrouds Fort Mountain

The trail to the north of this site leads to the mysterious and prehistoric wall of loose rocks from which Fort Mountain takes its name. Many generations of explorers, archaeologists, geologists, historians and sight-seers have wondered about the identity of ...

Officers Quarters

The chimney remains mark the site of a company officer’s hut. The hut was a replica built in 1890 on the original site.

The company-level officer’s huts were located behind the enlisted hut line. There are several other firebacks of ...

Friendship Cemetery

This site was donated by Arnold Milner, owner of a farm on the Etowah River, to be used for a church and cemetery for his family and friends. Friendship Presbyterian Church held its first services here on February 26, 1843. ...

Franklin Academy

State's oldest free school. Has functioned since 1821. Worthy trustees, using 16th section income & employing able teachers, early made Columbus a cultural center in northeast Mississippi.

Marker is on 3rd Avenue North near N. 5th Street (U.S. 45).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Union Artillery 6 Pound James Rifles

At the right of the Battery of Fort Pillow these two middle embrasures or openings in the parapet were fortified with two 6 pounder rifles. These were manned by members of Battery D, 2nd U.S. Light Artillery (colored). During the ...

Company Street (Fireback Row)

The enlisted men’s encampment consisted of 116 log huts set in a double row for almost a quarter mile down the company street. The only above ground remains of those huts today are the piles of collapsed stone chimneys. Each ...

Buffalo Lick Plantation

Patented in 1742 by John Bolling, Jr., the 2,735-acre Buffalo Lick Plantation tract along the James

River includes three notable historic sites. One

mile southeast stand the ruins of Mount Athos, the

home of William J. Lewis, an officer in the

American Revolution and ...

Lord Fairfax

At sometime prior to the incorporation of Winchester, Thomas Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, and at one time a Justice of the County of Frederick, dedicated to the public uses of the square which is bounded by Court House Avenue ...

Lynchburg Defenses

During the Civil War, a line of trenches and

fortified artillery positions extending past

here were built late in 1863 to defend Lynchburg against attack from the north. Brig.

Gen. Francis T. Nicholls was responsible for

ensuring that the local militia, invalids, and

convalescents properly ...

Bolling Air Force Base

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Old Bolling Field

1917 - Survey for the site of a military flying field to be used for defense of Washington and for proficiency flying. Captain William "Billy" Mitchell, commander of Army Signal Corps Aeronautics Division urges purchase ...