Organization of Fayette County

Fayette County was organized the first Monday in December, 1824, in the home of Robert G. Thornton, ten miles S. East on North fork of Wolf River. It was made a part of the district which David Crockett then represented ...

Atomic Bomb Accident at Mars Bluff, March 11, 1958

[Marker Front]

In 1958, in the midst of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped an atomic bomb near here.

The unarmed 7,600-lb., 10'8"-long bomb was aboard a B-47E bomber on a training mission headed for England. Its high-explosive trigger ...

Queen Theater

ca. 1915

Built originally for retail, this building

was redesigned into a theater in 1915

by prominent local architect Erle Stillwell.

The Neo-Classical building served as

the Queen, then the State, then the Fox

until the early 1960s.

Hendersonville Historic Preservation Commission

Marker is on North ...

Battlefield Site Map

Other local historic sites of interest

1. General Warren Inn

(Formerly the Warren Tavern)

2. Waynesborough

Restored home of General Wayne

3. Valley Forge National Historical Park

4. St. Peter’s in the Great Valley

Episcopal Church

5. Great Valley ...

Menominee Reservation

When Nicolet in 1634 stepped ashore not far from the present site of Green Bay, the Menominees were living in peace with their neighbors on both sides of the Menominee River, on the present sites of Menominee, Michigan, and Marinette, ...

To the Dead and Living Confederate Soldiers

To the Memory of those valiant souls who went forth from Old Marion to yield up their lives in Patriotic Devotion to The South and all that the South stood for.

While many of the rest in unknown graves this monument ...

The Land on Which the Battle of Paoli was Fought

The land on which the Battle of Paoli was fought has been farmland and woodland since the mid-18th century. Ezekiel Bowen, a farmer of Welsh descent, purchased this land in 1764. County records note that he sold it to Richard ...

Middle Plantation

600 acres patented in 1664 to Mareen Duval, Esq., great Hugenot and native of France. Appointed Commissioner for Advancement of Trade 1683, he died here 1694. The plantation remained the ancestral seat of a junior branch of the Duvall family ...

Polk Theatre and Office Building

This property has been

placed on the

National

Register of

Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on South Florida Avenue north of West Lemon Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The F - 100D at MBAFB, 1956 - 1970

On 19 November 1956, after more than 10 years of inactive status, the 354 Fighter Group was reactivated at Myrtle Beach AFB. The first maintenance training aircraft was flown in on 7 December 1956 by the Fighter Day Wing Commander, ...