Musketry Breastwork

This defensive breastwork was built on the western edge of the bluff and guarded the road from Burdette’s Ferry to the west (to the Bastion). The parapets of timber filled with soil were built upon a stone base and were ...

Copena Burial Mound

Copena Indians built this mound with baskets of dirt some 2000 years ago. The Copena name was derived from their use of copper and galena (lead ore) found in their burials along with gorgets and celts. The mounds were a ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Bridging the Gaps

Wood to Steel

The Milwaukee Road built temporary wood trestles at all but Kelly Creek and Clear Creek. Fire danger prompted the railroad to immediately begin replacing the wooden structures with earth-filled embankments or building steel bridges inside and over them.

The ...

Barnesville Blues

Co. B – 121st Infantry

Barnesville, Georgia

“Old Gray Bonnet”

This memorial is dedicated to all who served with the Barnesville Blues. This company served actively as a part of Georgia’s National Guard in four wars. They fought numerous long, hard, and decisive ...

Doublehead

Doublehead, (c1744-1807) aka Dsugweladegi or Chuqualatague, was the son of Great Eagle (Willenawah) and grandson of Moytoy. Among his siblings were Pumpkin Boy, Old Tassel and the unnamed grandmother of Sequoyah. After his sister's son John Watts Jr. was elected ...

The 1755 Battle of Lake George

Lake George Battlefield Park

In September 1755, a Colonial army commanded by Major General William Johnson camped on this location in preparation for an advance against the French Fortress of St. Frederic at Crown Point on Lake Champlain. On September 8, ...

Battle At Rivers Bridge / Rivers Bridge Memorials

Battle At Rivers Bridge

On February 2 ~ 3, 1865, as Gen. W.T. Sherman's

Federals advanced toward Columbia, units of

Gen. F.P. Blair's XVII Corps attempted to cross

the Salkehatchie River at Rivers Bridge. The

Confederate defenders there, in Gen. Lafayette

McLaws's division of ...

Strahl's Brigade.

Stewart's Division - Breckinridge's Corps.

Strahl's Brigade

Stewart's Division - Breckinridge's Corps.

Brig. Gen. Otho F. Strahl.

Nov. 25, 1863.

4th and 5th Tennessee - Col. J. J. Lamb.

19th Tennessee - Col. Francis M. Walker.

24th Tennessee - Col. John A. Wilson.

31st Tennessee - Col. Egbert ...

The Columbian House

This property has been

Placed on the

National Register

Of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of North River Road and Farnsworth Road, on the right when traveling south on North River Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of Home of Reuben Hornsby

Site of the home built in 1832 by Reuben Hornsby (1793-1879) and his wife Sarah Morrison Hornsby (1796-1862).

Second built in “Austin’s Little Colony”. First in the present county of Travis.

Famed for Christian hospitality.

Here Josiah Wilbarger recovered after being scalped in ...