“Fightin’ Joe” Wheeler

Near this spot, May 9, 1865, Major General Joseph Wheeler, C.S.A., and part of his staff were captured by Federal troops who were pursuing President Jefferson Davis. Gen. Wheeler was released at Athens but, later, was again arrested and sent ...

E.J. Lavino & Company #3

The American Locomotive Company built this 0-6-0T saddle tank industrial switch locomotive in 1927. E.J. Lavino and Company put the #3 to work at its Sheridan, Pennsylvania, yards.

E.J. Lavino and Company operated a ferro-manganese blast furnace in Sheridan. Manganese, ...

In Memory of J. Wilson Parker

In Memory of J. Wilson Parker

June 26, 1895 ------ July 27, 1966

Grand Master 1940

Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Masonic Home of

Georgia, 1946-1966

Raised in Fairburn Lodge No. 180, F. & A. M., 1920; Worshipful Master 1923 and 1943; ...

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

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Exponent of

Constitutional Principals

Defender of

the Rights of States

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Crescit occulto velut

arbor aevo fama

Right of Pedestal:

With constancy and courage unsurpassed, he sustained the heavy burden laid upon him by his people.

When their cause was lost, ...

St. John's Episcopal Church

St. John's Episcopal Church parish was founded in 1890, but the church was not built until 1897. The first services were held Feb. 20, 1898. The design of the church is copied from one in Como, Canada, where the Hodgson ...

Japanese Internment

On April 22, 1942, 273 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry were exiled from their homes in the Greater Victoria area. None of the survivors of this event ever returned to Victoria to re-establish a home.

On August 4, 1992, ...

The Majestic Theatre

Built c1860

This building first housed Moore’s Music Hall (Victoria’s earliest existing theatre) upstairs, above Nathanial Moore’s dry goods store.

In 1885, a new facade was constructed to match the new building next door, with identical cast iron columns.

Various commercial uses followed, ...

Blue Jacket Town

Here lived the famous Shawnee chief who led the "Seven Nations" in their defeat at Fallen Timbers.

He later was prominent in the making of the famous Treaty of Greeneville.

Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street (U.S. 68) and ...

Edward James McGanney

Born Oct. 31, 1891.

Killed in action in the

Argonne, France

Oct. 5th, 1918

He died that others

might live

Marker can be reached from Smartville Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

S.J. Pitts, Importer

Built 1882

This is one of the earlier brick warehouse in the area, replacing previous wooden construction.

Sidney Pitts, like other businessmen on Yates Street, operated a wholesale grocery, provision and produce business.

Stuccoed for may years, the building was restored in 1990 ...