Forest Lodge Belvedere

This Belvedere, meaning "beautiful view" was one of three Forest Lodge towers. Forest Lodge, constructed in the 1880s by Captain John Cussons, was a six-story hotel on 1000 acres in Glen Allen, west of the railroad tracks. Cussons created gardens, ...

2nd Bomb Group (H)

7 Dec. 1941 - 28 Feb. 1946

20th Bomb Sq (H) • 49th Bomb Sq (H)

96th Bomb Sq (H) • 429th Bomb Sq (H)

The 2d Bombardment Group relocated

to Ephrata, Washington, then to Great

Falls, Montana in 1942. Received newer

B-17 aircraft and deployed ...

Battle of Cross Keys

Trimble’s Ravine

On June 8, 1862, Confederate Gen. Isaac R, Trimble led part of the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment through the then-swampy ravine in front of you to attack Union Gen. Louis Blenker’s division. Trimble intended to move around the 54th ...

Cloud's Creek Baptist Church

In 1785, following the Revolutionary War, pioneers from North Carolina--including the Hendons, Hartsfields, Standifers, Johnsons, Lawrences, and Olives--settled near Big Cloud's Creek on the Georgia frontier near the Creek and Cherokee nations. Olive's Fort was soon constructed and Cloud's Creek ...

Battle of Cross Keys

Immigrant Soldiers

Many immigrants fought for the North and the South during the Civil War. Their numbers were especially high in Gen. Louis Blenker’s division of Gen. John C. Fremont’s union army at Cross Keys on June 8, 1862.

Two Germans (Gen. ...

Battle of Blountville

Here on September 22, 1863, Confederate forces commanded by Colonel James E. Carter fought a Union brigade led by John W. Foster. After delaying the Union advance for more than four hours, Carter withdrew toward Zollicoffer, now known as Bluff ...

Clark Gable

The King of Hollywood

William Clarke Gable, stage and motion picture actor, was born at Cadiz, Ohio, on February 1, 1901, in a house that once stood on this site. He was reared in nearby Hopedale. During his film career of ...

27th Fighter Bomber Group

A-36 Invader • P-47 Thunderbolt

Five Presidential Citations • 1941 - 1945

Invasions • 1943 - 1945

Sicily, Italy and Southern France

Battle Stars

Sicily • Naples-Foggia • Anzio

Rome-Arno • Northern Appenines • Southern France

Northern France • Rhineland-Central Europe

Dedicated Oct 1991

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battery Decatur and Disappearing Guns

American coastal defenses were modernized from the 1890s to 1910 with the development of the Endicott System. Emphasis in military tactics shifted the masonry fortifications to more effective weapons based on rifled steel guns, improved breech-loading systems, better propellants (gunpowder), ...

322nd Bomb Group (M)

449th-450th-451st-452nd & HQs. Sqdns.

1942 - 1945

England-France-Belgium-Germany

Distinguished Unit Citation

ETO Medal & Six Battle Stars

To those who flew the B-26

To those who kept them flying

To those we left behind.

“I've trod the high untrespassed

sanctity of space, put out my hand

and touched the face ...