First Aluminum Observatory Dome

On the hill just west of here, the first known astronomical observatory with an aluminum dome was erected in 1930. Designed & built by Pittsburgh amateur astronomers led by Leo J. Scanlon, the Valley View Observatory stood beside his Van ...

Moment of Mercy

By Sculptor Terry Jones

The Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December of 1862, was one of the bloodier engagements of the American Civil War. On December 13th, Federal troops made repeated assaults against Confederate positions behind the stone walls along the ...

Rivers Bridge Confederate Dead

( Front face )

In Memory

of our

Confederate Dead

who fell in battle at

River's Bridges

Feb. 4, 1865.

(Reverse face )

Soldier's rest, your welfare o'er,

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,

Dream of battlefields no more,

Days of ...

Gaffney

Michael Gaffney

[Southeast Face]

Born Sept. 29,1775 in Granard,

County Longford, Ireland.

Came to Charleston S.C.

Feb. 3, 1800.

Married Miss. Polly Smith

of Smith's Ford Union County

July 21, 1803.

He established the present

site of Gaffney in 1804.

Was Captain in the war of 1812.

Died Sept. 6, 1854.

Interred in

Gaffney ...

Sandfly

Established by African Americans in the nineteenth century, Sandfly is centered around the intersection of Mongomery Crossroad and Skidaway Road. Many families in this community trace their ancestry to former slaves from nearby Wormsloe Plantation, bought land as free persons, ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

On Jan. 21, 1933 President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed an immense crowd a this crossing from his railroad car and promised "to put Muscle Shoals back on the map." He then toured the idle U.S,. Nitrate Plant No. 2 and ...

Our Confederate Dead

Rivers Bridge State Park

Most of the Confederates killed here were Georgians,

and most were unknown when they were reburied. But

the local community remembered them as " our

Confederate dead, " the fallen heroes of a common cause. The monument placed over ...

Captain Henry V. Fuller

Captain Henry V. Fuller

Co. F. 64th New York Infantry

Killed July 2, 1863.

Marker can be reached from DeTrobriand Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Jones' Run For Life

In July 1878, a band of Nez Perce Indians returning south from Canada after eluding U.S. Cavalry, crossed what is now Granite County. While passing through they attacked a small mining camp located on a tributary of Rock Creek at ...

First Baptist Church of Trussville

Organized as Cahawba Baptist Church, 1821 Elder Sion Blythe, pastor Anderson Robertson, Sherwood Holley, deacons John Stovall, Jordan Williams, trustees.

Member of Canaan (now Birmingham) Baptist Association since its beginning in 1833.

This marker dedicated at the church’s 141st Anniversary, July 14, ...