Cherokee County Confederate Monument

Our Confederate Soldiers

[North Inscription]

"Lest we Forget"

[South Inscription]

Though men deserve

they may not win success.

The brave will honor

the brave vanquished

none the less.

[Footstone]

This tablet in memoriam

Moses Wood

Erected by Moses Wood Chapter U.D.C.

1932

Marker is on South Limestone Street (Route 150) near East Buford Street, ...

History of Fort Magruder

On May 4th, 1862 Union Division’s of Generals Hooker, Hancock, and “Baldy” Smith encountered units of the Southern Army east of Williamsburg.

When the Confederate Army Commander General Joseph E. Johnston became aware of the engagement, he sent Colonel John B. ...

Freedmen's Schooling

In 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands began assistance to former slaves. While efforts at educating freed slaves were strongest in Georgia's larger cities and towns, State Superintendent of Freedmen's Schools G.L. Eberhardt recognized the need to ...

Tanforan Assembly Center Commemorative Garden

This garden memorializes a time when this site, then the Tanforan Park Racetrack, was transformed into a temporary assembly center for persons of Japanese ancestry. On February 19, 1942, in the absence of charges or due process of law, President ...

The Rivers’ Flow

West Sacramento River Walk

Prior to European settlement in the mid-1800s, river flows in the valley changed with the seasons: spring torrents followed by low water during the summer. Construction of dams and other flood control measures during the mid-to late ...

First Permanent Colony in Door County

Near

this spot

a Moravian

Congregation,

Reverend

A.M. Iverson, Pastor

landed May, 1853,

forming the first

permanent colony

in Door County

———

Erected 1923

Marker is on Water Street (State Highway 42) north of Cherry Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Brink of Lower Falls

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River

Sculpting Lower Falls

Reaching the Brink of Lower Falls overlook requires hiking a steep trail that winds down the canyon wall…a wall of hardened rhyolite lava…a wall exposed by the Yel1owstone River while excavating the canyon.

Below ...

First Battle of Winchester

Here Stonewall Jackson, in the early morning of May 25, 1862, halted his advance guard and observed the union position.

Marker is on Valley Avenue (U.S. 11).

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Great Buffalo Lick

This site is described in the treaty signed by the Creek and Cherokee Indians at Augusta, Georgia, in 1773. Here began the survey of the ceded lands.

Marker is at the intersection of Union Point Highway (U.S. 278) and Buffalo Lick ...

Brink of Upper Falls

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

From the Brink of Upper Falls viewpoint you can witness the power of the Yellowstone River as you watch millions of gallons (liters) of water plunging 109 feet (33 ...