The Arsenal Crisis

The Civil War could have begun at this U.S. arsenal. As other states seceded, rumors that reinforcements were heading for the arsenal led around 1,000 militia from south and west Arkansas to demand the surrender of the garrison.

On February 12, ...

Finley-Cartwright Home

Finley Cartwright bought this 1918 Tudor Revival Style house from the Cowan Family in 1920. His father formed one of Oceola's earliest stores in 1879, offering sporting goods, household items, and plantation supplies.

By World War II, N.G. Cartwright and Sons ...

Wagon Road

Around these gumbo buttes and across these ridges and valleys, an old road winded its way between Fort Abraham Lincoln on the Missouri River in Dakota Territory and Fort Keogh on the Yellowstone River in Montana.

Although the Indians blazed ...

Lee's Retreat

Near here General Robert E. Lee, moving south toward Danville, in the afternoon of April 5, 1865 found the road blocked by General Phillip Henry Sheridan.

He then turned westward by way of Amelia Springs, hoping to reach the South ...

Richlands

This fertile region was known as Richlands from an early period. In 1782, and later, Richlands was a militia station for frontier defense.

The town was laid off in 1890, with the coming of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, and ...

Tazewell

The town was laid off as the county seat, in 1800, when Tazewell County was formed, on land given by William Peery and Samuel Ferguson.

First known as Jeffersonville, the name was changed to Tazewell, for Senator Henry Tazewell. Averell ...

DEAD TOWN OF HARDWICKE

On May 10, 1754, GEORGE TOWN was established at the Elbow of Great Ogeechee River, eight miles east. In February, 1755, Gov. Reynolds, dissatisfied with Savannah as a capital and as a port, chose this new site because it "has ...

Americus Colored Hospital

One of the earliest hospitals in southwest Georgia devoted to the care of African Americans, the Americus Colored Hospital opened in 1923.

The majority of the funds needed to build the hospital were provided by Dr. W.S. Prather. Practice in ...

The Only Advantage of the Day

June 27, 1864.

While 8 Federal brigades at Kennesaw Mountain and at Cheatham Hill, made futile attempts to break Johnston's Confederate lines, Schofield's 23rd Union Regiment moved South from Powder Springs road.

This flanking move was opposed by Hood's A. ...

Allatoona Pass

Allatoona was in pioneer days a travel hub, because ridges from east and south met here where it was fairly easy to cross the Allatoona Mountain range by winding over a low ridge, or pass.

The Sandtown or Tennessee Road from ...