Gettysburg Campaign

Confederate General Albert G. Jenkins and his staff occupied this house, June 28-30, 1863. His brigade, a part of General Ewell's Corps, had entered Mechanicsburg to reconnoiter the approaches to Harrisburg with a view toward a June 30 attack. The ...

Gettysburg Campaign

Farthest advance of a body of Confederate troops toward Harrisburg. Southern units under General A. G. Jenkins of Ewell's Corps reached Oyster Point on June 28, 1863. On the next day defending militia faced them here in a skirmish in ...

Walter Fenner "Buck" Leonard

Baseball Hall Of Famer

Rocky Mount Native

Born near this spot in 1907. Rose to

fame in the Negro Leagues, 1933-50.

Won Negro National League pennant

nine straight years while first baseman

of the Homestead Grays. Ranked

among home run leaders and won

Negro National League ...

Miller-Fish Building

circa 1887

In this block, early settler Charles A Miller owned a hay & grain store, livery stable, and buggy & carriage shop. All fell to the flames of the 1886 fire. Miller was among the first to rebuild, erecting the ...

Cornell Women's Club Tablet

This tablet was erected in 1931

by The Women's Club of

Cornell, Wisconsin

and serves a twofold purpose.

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On the hillside below, unmarked and obliterated, are many Indian graves of days long past. At a later period this plot became the burial ground of ...

Philadelphia Presbyterian Church

(Front):

First Presbyterian Church in Pike County

Organized largely by members of Beaver Creek Presbyterian Church near Camden, South Carolina.

The petitioned Presbytery of South Alabama Oct. 18, 1839 and were officially established as a church April 3, 1840.

Church ...

New Era Missionary Baptist Church

Organized ca. 1886, this African American church is the oldest continuous congregation in Gautier. Twice destroyed by fire, the church was rebuilt at its present site in 1893. The New Era Missionary Baptist Church choir sang at the 1936 inauguration ...

Geary’s Three Bridges

July 19, 1864. Covered by the fire of Geary’s 12 guns [US] on the ridge N. of the cr., together with the musketry of a heavy skirmish line, the division pioneers hastily built a foot bridge with timbers previously prepared.

Ireland’s ...

Reynolds’ Brigade at the Ravine

July 20, 1864. Four regiments of Reynolds’ Arkansas brigade, Walthall’s div., Stewart’s A.C., [CS] having deployed abreast at old Mt. Zion Ch., moved in a right oblique across Howell Mill & Collier rds. into the wooded ravine.

The assault fell upon ...

Salem Baptist Church

Pike County's oldest church

Organized by Dr. C.T. Mahoney

Since 1824 it has enriched

the life of this section

Here were organized:

Salem Baptist Association, 1839

Baptist General Assoc., 1868

Ladies Aid Society, 1891

Salem-Troy Baptist Assoc., 1904

Women's Missionary Society, 1905

First a log structure, the church had occupied ...