Gettysburg Campaign

Gen. Rodes' Confederate troops marched down this road July 1, 1863, on their way from Carlisle. At this point they turned right along the ridge to Oak Hill, to attack the Union flank.

Marker is at the intersection of Biglerville ...

Peter Skene Ogden House

400 feet south of this marker stood the home of

Peter Skene Ogden

Chief Factor of Hudson's Bay Co. and rescuer of the survivors of the Whitman Massacre.

Marker is on McLoughlin Boulevard (Oregon Route 99) near S. 2nd Street, on the right ...

Panguitch Fort

In March, 1864, about fifty pioneers under the leadership of Jens Nielson settled Panguitch. They built a fort of logs, enclosing their homes and a building used for church, school and recreation. The town was abandoned in 1867, because of ...

John Luke Porter

1813-1893

Wooden ships became helpless shortly before noon on March 8, 1862 when the CSS Virginia, the world's first steam-driven iron-clad vessel to be used in warfare, floated out to do battle against them. The next day the Northern ship USS ...

Chickasawhatchee Primitive Baptist Church

This church, organized September 28, 1858, with two men and five women as charter members, is the oldest church in Terrell County on its original site. Three acres of land were given by Haley Johnson of Dawson. Later, Sharpe and ...

Appeal to Reason

First Girard home

of J. A. Wayland's

Socialist newspaper

the

Appeal to Reason

1897

Marker is on Ozark Street near Prairie Street, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

All Saints Parish (1767) / All Saints, Waccamaw

Anglican services were held on Waccamaw Neck by 1737, with a chapel built on land purchased from Percival Pawley. All Saints Parish, Waccamaw, created out of Prince George Winyah Parish in 1767, was the third Anglican parish created in present-day ...

Point of Beginning

In October, 1786, the General Assembly approved that 45 acres of land belonging to John Lynch be laid off in half-acre lots to establish a town by the name of Lynchburg. The original trustees Charles Brooks, Jesse Burton, John Callaway, ...

Battle of West Point

April 16, 1865

800 yds. Northwest is the site of Fort Tyler ~ last Confederate fort to fall in the War Between the States. A force of Union cavalry captured Fort Tyler after an 8 hour siege.

19 Confederate engines and ...

“For God’s Sake, Save That Battery” The 38th Indiana at Perryvil

Perryville

The 436 members of the 38th Indiana Infantry Regiment deployed here, in a cut cornfield, next to the 10th Wisconsin Infantry. These men supported Captain Peter Simonson’s six cannon, which were located to your right. It was a crucial position; ...