Joseph William Burke

1835-1900

Lawyer, Industrialist, Patriot

Brigadier General, U.S.A.

Gen. Burke helped rebuild

Alabama’s mining & manufacturing

interests after the Civil War.

He helped establish the Catholic

Church at Jacksonville.

His home, “Bellevue,”

occupied the present site of

Jacksonville State College.

Marker is on University Circle west of ...

Denuded Ouachita Rock Belt

Denuded Ouachita Rock Belt In highway cuts toward the east are excellent exposures of almost vertical rocks layers--part of the Ouachita Fold Belt, a northeasterly trending folded and faulted mountainous range which was uplifted about 275 to 290 million years ...

Poinsett Bridge

This bridge

on the

state road

from

Greenville to Asheville

was built

in

1820

by

Abram Landing,

Acting Commissioner,

Board of Public Works.

Joel R. Poinsett, President.

Marker is on Callahan Mountain Road (State Highway S23-42).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Brick House Village

This central hamlet for Montague, a township created in 1759, was named for the Brick House Hotel - a colonial tavern, hostelry and stage coach stop built in the 1700's. It sat at the convergence of two turnpikes with Old ...

George S. Bowers

Erected 1914 by

E. B. Tantum

To commemorate the devoted service

to his country of

George S. Bowers

Company F 8th Regiment

N. J. Volunteer Infantry

And all other loyal soldiers and sailors

who suffered untold misery starvation and

death, while confined as prisoners of war

in Andersonville and other ...

200th Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington

By his faith in God and man he built our nation

Erected in 1932 by the

New York State Commission

for the celebration of the

two hundredth anniversary of the birth of

George Washington

Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor

Hon. Herbert H. Lehman, ...

Wilcox’s Brigade, CSA

“A private by the name of Jones….seized the colors, his right arm was soon broken, he then held it with his left hand, and he was soon shot through both legs no broken bones, and then his left arm was ...

Pearl Harbor Square

Memorialized By

Bayanihan Club of Union

“Lest We Forget”

December 7, 1941

To honor our service men and women

who sacrificed so much

“The Day Of Infamy”

when 360 Japanese planes descended on Americans

at Pearl Harbor killing 2400 and wounding 1200.

Local Survivors:

John Adams * Edward ...

The Westbrook - Bell House

Johannes Westbrook, who was among the earliest permanent settlers of the Minisink region, built this homestead around the year 1701. It was subsequently fortified when incidents of hostility increased between the residents of New York and New Jersey during the ...

Billy Lee Riley

Billy Lee Riley began picking cotton at age 7 on the Jacksonville plantation in Osceola. Influenced by local bluesmen, Riley became a 1950s rockabilly star, recording his first hit, Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll, at Sun Studios. Retiring from music ...