Site of Fort Defiance

1794

Rendezvous of followers of General Elijah Clarke in the Trans-Oconee Country.

Marker is at the intersection of South Jefferson Street and East Hancock Street (Georgia Route 22/24), in the median on South Jefferson Street.

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First Baptist Church (Brick-A-Day Church)

Organized in 1866, this pioneering congregation grew out of First Baptist Church, now on Perry Street, where early parishioners had worshipped as slaves. The first building, facing Columbus Street, was erected in 1867. Nathan Ashby served as first pastor (1866-70) ...

City Wharf and Warehouses

The City’s Wharf and Warehouse probably was constructed in the late 1880’s. A south extension likely was added around 1900. The small waterfront facility provided river-craft dockage for a number of small independent operators. As indicated by the rooftop sign ...

Reedy River Falls

The falls of the Reedy River were a power source for industry, but they were also the town's chief price in the early nineteenth century. The subject of a Cherokee myth (a brave was said to have thrown himself ...

Brewster Forge Site

Parts of Great Chain designed to obstruct British navigation of Hudson, 1776-1778, fabricated here during American Revolution.

Mem. Louis San Giacomo 1916-1980

Marker is on Forge Hill Road (County Route 74), on the left when traveling east.

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Two Gallant Gentlemen from South Carolina

To honor the memory of two gallant gentleman

of South Carolina. Thomas Fenwick Drayton;

Brigadier-General, C.S.A. and his brother

Commodore Percival Drayton, U.S.N., Captain

of U.S.S. Hartford, and later the first Chief

of Naval Operations.

The brothers met at the outbreak of hostilities,

shook hands, and each ...

Civil War Medicine / Montgomery's Confederate Hospitals

Side A

During the War Between the States medical knowledge was primitive. As a result, twice as many men died of disease than in battle from wounds. Early in the War, childhood diseases such as measles, mumps and chicken pox decimated ...

University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum

Home of pioneering research on prescribed fire and prairie restoration

The Arboretum consists of 1,200 acres of restored and remnant prairies, savannas, wetlands and woodlands. Each of these plant communities provides a window into the natural heritage of southern Wisconsin before ...

Falls Place

Greenville was a major textile center by the beginning of the twentieth century, and local cotton growers and brokers needed storage places for the harvested cotton. West End banker H.L. Gassaway and Dr. Davis Furman purchased land immediately south of ...

First Commercial Store

1877

Capt. James B. Jordan came to DeLand in 1876. While serving in a North Carolina regiment during the civil war, Capt. Jordan was wounded and taken prisoner in July 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg. Following the war, he came ...