Prosper Rocher Brewery

In 1856 Prosper Rocher constructed Columbia's second brewery located one-half mile east of town on the north side of Yankee Hill Road. Rocher, a French physician, was first partners with Anton Bixel in the Columbia Brewery on Italian Bar Road. ...

Bake Oven and Upper Level Structures

With the exception of the Bake Oven, which produced bread for camp, the identity and locations of numerous other buildings on the upper level is uncertain. We know that the Bake Oven was located in this ravine. It needed water ...

Union Artillery 10 Pound Parrotts

Several days before the battle the Union brought two 10 pound Parrotts to Fort Pillow. These pieces were placed outside the fort at the beginning of the battle, but were soon moved inside the fort where wooden platforms were hastily ...

Mississippi State College for Women

The oldest state supported woman's college (1884) in the United States. It pioneered in adding vocational subjects to standard arts-science program.

Marker is at the intersection of College Street and 11th Street South, on the right when traveling east on College ...

A Captured Trench

On the morning of June 1, 1864, Confederate soldiers of Thomas Clingman’s North Carolina brigade frantically dug this trench. They anticipated a Union assault later in the day. Around 6:00 p.m. Federal troops of the VI Corps moved into position ...

The Broughton Sheboygan Marsh Park & Wildlife Area

A Brief History

The Mission: Promote the Increased Use and Appreciation of the Unique Beauty of the Broughton Sheboygan Marsh Through Education and Recreation

The Marsh

The Broughton Sheboygan Marsh Park and Wildlife Area is the prominent feature in a ...

Keep Digging

These trenches represent a dramatic change in battlefield tactics. When the two armies met on this ground in 1862, soldiers fought shoulder to shoulder; victory was often dependent upon the success or failure of a dramatic charge.

By 1864 field fortifications ...

Philips Cave

Local legend says a shallow cave in this rock outcrop was used by one Mr. Philips. Philips was a soldier who returned after the war to live in this cave.

He led the life of a lonely hermit, including liberating ...

Keep Your Head Down

This shallow, winding depression is all that remains of a “zigzag” constructed by Union troops in June 1864. In trench warfare, soldiers dug ditches, called zigzags or covered-ways, to provide protection from sharpshooters as they moved from one line 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. ...