Esperanza School Building

One of earliest one-room rural schoolhouse in Travis County, this cabin was built on property of Richard McKenzie in 1866. It was known as Esperanza School and served children from Neighboring farms in the period before public education. In 1893 ...

Battle of Rivers' Bridge

Feb. 2-3, 1865

A Running Battle on the River Road

On Feb.2, Union troops moved up the road on the opposite bank of the Salkehatchie, fighting a running battle with the Confederate cavalrymen who tried to slow their advance. Among the casualties ...

Battle of Rivers' Bridge

Feb. 2-3, 1865

Attack!

Gen. Joseph A. Mower's Union division advanced rapidly to Rivers Bridge on the afternoon of Feb. 2 and charged down a narrow causeway. Confederate cannon fire stopped the attack and forced the Yankees to take cover in the ...

Northwest Bastion

The plan of Fort Ward consisted of five bastions with positions for 36 guns. The Northwest Bastion illustrates how the entire stronghold appeared in 1864. This bastion is armed with six reproduction weapons based on Fort Ward's original table of ...

Ivy Ledbetter Lee

Founder of Modern Public Relations

Ivy Ledbetter Lee, public relations expert, author, lecturer, and philanthropist, was born July 16, 1877, near Cedartown. He attended Emory College for two years and then went to Princeton, where he earned his A.B. in 1898, ...

Iarussi Building

In the 1920s Italian shoemaker Ludovico Iarussi (later changed to Jarussi) owned this property containing his shop and several frame commercial buildings. In 1929 Iarussi razed the older shops and constructed the present building. Financially disabled in the stock market ...

Sweetbrush

The Swisher-Scott House

Banker John Milton Swisher (1819-1891) built this residence in 1853 in the 400 block of San Antonio St. Noted architect-builder Abner Cook designed the Greek Revival house. In the 1920s, Dr. and Mrs. Z.T. Scott found the building ...

Battle of Rivers' Bridge

Feb. 2-3, 1865

"This Indescribably Ugly Salkehatchie "

At Rivers Bridge the Salkehatchie flowed though a swamp a

half mile wide. The only road through it was a narrow earthen causeway with multiple wooden bridges. The Confederates hoped the thick swamp and ...

Northeast Bastion

Near here was

Northeast Bastion

part of outworks

Fort Edward

1755

Marker is on Lakes to Locks Passage (U.S. 4), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Shelby's Fort

General Evan Shelby erected a fort here in 1771 that sheltered and protected pioneers and sent victorious forces to the battles of Point Pleasant, Long Island Flats and Chicamauga Towns

Here was conceived by Shelby, Campbell and Sevier, an expedition to ...