Michigan at Perryville

(side 1)

Among the 61,000 Union soldiers who at the Battle of Perryville ended Confederate attempts to gain control of Kentucky were six Michigan units. The most heavily engaged of these were Coldwater’s Loomis Battery (Battery A of the ...

Illinois Soldiers at Perryville

The Fifty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, commanded by Maj. Joshua Winters, here suffered 113 casualties of 325 engaged. The Seventy-fifth Illinois, Lieut. Col. John E. Bennett, lost 225 of 700. Serving with Col. Michael Gooding's Thirteenth Brigade, the regiments came to the ...

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 ...

75th Pennslyvania Volunteers

In memoriam

of our

comrades

75th P.V.

Marker is on Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Camp Guardhouse

Camp Guardhouse

A log hut which was reconstructed about 1890 on the remains of a hut from 1778. The actual purpose of the original structure is in question, although local lore said it was the Guardhouse. The construction and ...

Visitor Center (1893 Pavilion)

Visitor Center

(1893 Pavilion)

This building was originally built in 1893 as the park pavilion. It was used as a shelter for park visitors during inclement weather, for dances and picnics.

The upstairs was used as the original park ...

Rucker’s Chapel

Nearby stood Rucker’s Chapel, one of the first

Anglican (present-day Episcopal) churches in

Amherst County. Also known as Harris Creek

Church and later as St. Matthew’s, the church

was founded by Col. Ambrose Rucker before 1751.

It stood on part of a 5,850-acre tract his ...

Myrtle Beach Pavilions

[Front]

A succession of four beach pavilions stood here or nearby from 1902 to 2006, all built by the Burroughs & Chapin Co. or the Myrtle Beach Farms Co. The first, built in 1902, was a simple oceanfront shelter. The ...