1893 Columbian Exposition

The World's Columbian Exposition, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's landing in America, was actually held in 1893, a year later than had been planned.

New York City, Washington, D.C., St.Louis, and Chicago had all vied for the honor ...

Air Force Space and Missile Museum

St. Paul's Baptist Church -- 1865

This is the first Negro church established in Anderson County. It was founded immediately after emancipation and incorporated in 1873. The Rev. Philip Morris was its first pastor. The present edifice, built in 1903, replaced two earlier frame sanctuaries and ...

Corsicana Public Library

The women's clubs of Corsicana were instrumental in opening the city's first public library in 1901 at W. 6th and

Main St. The city created a library board in 1904 and secured a construction grant from the Carnegie Corporation the ...

Marshyhope Creek Bridge

Until it was named Federalsburg in 1812,

the community took its name from the bridge

at this crossing. This 215-foot concrete

structure was built in 1910 by the Luten

Bridge Company of York, Pa, a firm noted for

its filled Spanderel Arch design. It was

built ...

"Contraband" Camp

During the Civil War, thousands of enslaved African-Americans escaped from captivity in the South to liberty in the North. The grounds before once sheltered these freedom-seekers, know at that time as “Contraband”.

Conditions in the “Contraband Camp” were appalling. Men, ...

Polk County, C.S.A..

During Civil War, 1861-65, an area of piney woods, farms, thickets, with an Alabama-Coushatta Indian reservation. Had only 600 voters in 1860 but sent 900 soldiers into the Confederate Army.

Furnished 4 units to Hood's Texas Brigade (Co. B, 1st ...

Death at Point Lookout

It is hard to imagine this tranquil site as a place of sickness, suffering and death. Yet during the Civil War, five graveyards marked Point Lookout.

Why so many graves? In 1863, Union forces chose this isolated spot for a ...

Smallpox Epidemic

Near this location during the Civil War was the smallpox hospital where thousands of people were quarantined.

Highly contagious, horrible to behold and often fatal, smallpox was a dreaded disease. When the scourge hit the prison camp, officials built this ...

Point Lookout-Hammond Hospital

This monument is dedicated to the memory of those soldiers, sailors, and hospital attendants from both North and South, who were here at Point Lookout from July 1862 to July 1865.

This monument marks the general location of the Hammond Hospital

Marker ...