Putnam Memorial State Park

Putnam Memorial State Park

This park commemorates the three winter encampments in 1778 – 79 of Major General Isreal Putnam’s division of Continental Army troops during the Revolutionary War. The memorial park was created on the actual site of ...

George Washington's Political Career Began on this Site

On July 24, 1758, at the first Frederick County Court House on this site, Colonel George Washington, age 26, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. This was the first elective office of the young commander of Virginia's forces ...

Fifth New York Independent Battery

(Taft's)

(Front):Fifth New York

Independent Battery,

(Taft's)

2d Brigade, Artillery Reserve.

(Back):This battery

held this position from

5 p.m. July 2d to

5th, 1863.

—————

Casualties.

1 killed, 2 wounded.

Marker can be reached from Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Original site of St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church

The first Episcopal service in Lufkin was held in 1893 by the Rev. George L. Crocket for the W.G. Barron and R.B. Shearer families. St. Mary's Mission was established in 1895 by the Rev. C.M. Beckwith, but the congregation did ...

Stephens County High School

Eastanolle, Georgia

Organized officially in 1917 as Eastanollee High School, taking its name from the old Eastanollee School -– a name of Indian origin meaning “a ledge of rocks across a stream.” In 1926 it became the county high school, and ...

History of Rocheport

1804...

Land Before the Town

Prior to its settlement, American Indians used the area we now call Rocheport. The closeness to the river, fertile soils, both salt and freshwater springs, and the protection given by the huge bluffs, rock overhangs and caves ...

Stephens Family Cemetery

Buried here are eight members of the Innis, Mazeen, and Stephens families, including the most famous of them all: Martha Stephens.

Local children knew Martha Stephens as "Granny." They also remembered her ever-present apron, the pipe often clenched in her teeth, ...

Hilltop Enclosure

Hopewell Indians constructed this hilltop enclosure and probably used it for social gatherings and religious observances. No evidence of Hopewell occupation is present within the 100+ acre enclosure. Hopewell domestic areas abound on the plateau outside the enclosure itself.

Once constructed, ...

Cannon Street Hospital / McClennan Banks Memorial Hospital

Cannon Street Hospital

Cannon Street Hospital, established here in 1897, served the African-American community of Charleston until 1959. Officially the Hospital and Training School for Nurses, it occupied a three-story brick building constructed ca. 1800. Dr. Alonzo C. McClennan (1855-1912), ...

Fort Ancient Prehistoric Indian Earthworks

You are standing inside an earthworks built by prehistoric Hopewell Indians nearly 2000 years ago. Early settlers in this area thought these walls were constructed as a fort. Today, archaeologists believe the site was used primarily as a religious and ...