Temple of Music and Art

This cultural center was built through the efforts of the Saturday Morning Music Club. The grand opening October 28, 1927, starred violinist Jascha Heifetz. Many world-renowned artists followed upon the stage and in the galleries while local talent also gave ...

Farthest West, 1750

Near here, in 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker, on his first journey southwest, assisted Samuel Stalnaker in building his cabin. At that time his was the farthest west settlement.

Marker is on West Lee Highway (U.S. 11) just west of Whitetop Road ...

Carter County / Washington County

[Front]

Established 1796 named in honor of

Landon Carter

Treasurer of Washington and Hamilton Districts. Speaker of the first State of Franklin Senate, later its Secretary of State, also Lieutenant Colonel of the Washington District Militia.

[Reverse]

Established 1777 named in honor

George Washington

Colonel in the ...

General Arthur M. Manigault

Volunteer aide-de-camp to Gen. Beauregard in April 1861, mustered into Confederate service at White’s Bridge near here on July 19, 1861, as Colonel of the 10th Regiment, S.C. Infantry, promoted Brigadier General on April 26, 1863, wounded at the Battle ...

Martin Delany

(1812 - 1885)

Delany was an influential abolitionist, civil rights activist, Army officer, and prominent physician. The son of an enslaved father and free mother received his education in Chambersburg. He went on to publish and anti-slavery newspaper, "The Mystery." He ...

Battery B, 1st New York Light Artillery

Artillery Brigade

(Front):Battery B

1st New York

Light

Artillery,

Artillery

Brigade,

2d Corps.

(Back):Position held

afternoon of

July 3d 1863.

Casualties;

Killed 10,

Wounded 16.

(Left):Mustered

into service

Aug. 31, 1861.

participated

in 78 days

of battle.

Mustered out

of service

June 16, 1865.

(Right):Organized at

Baldwinsville

Onondaga Co.

New York.

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Nancy Harts

In 1863, a company of women soldiers was formed in LaGrange by Mrs. J. Brown Morgan. They called themselves the “Nancy Harts” in honor of Georgia’s Revolutionary War heroine. Organized to defend LaGrange in the absence of its men, the ...

Battery C, Fifth U.S. Artillery

First Regular Brigade - Artillery Reserve

Army of the Potomac

Artillery Reserve

First Regular Brigade

Battery C Fifth U.S. Artillery

Lieut. Gulian V. Weir commanding

July 2 Arrived at Gettysburg from near Taneytown and in the afternoon was ordered to the front and by direction of ...

Sacred Heart Catholic Church

The first Catholic mass was celebrated at Milledgeville in April, 1845, at the Hugh Treanor apartment in the Newell Hotel. Bishop Ignatius Reynolds of the diocese of Charleston, accompanied by Father J. F. O’Neill, visited here in 1847. In 1850 ...

Rebecca Kilgore Stuart Red

1827 - 1886

Rebecca Jane Kilgore Stuart became principal of Live Oak Female Seminary in Washington County, Texas, in 1853. In 1854 she married Dr. George Clark Red and continued teaching. The Reds moved to Austin in 1876, and opened Stuart ...