Robert Sengstacke Abbott Boyhood Home

Founder of the Chicago Defender

From 1878 to 1889, Robert Sengstacke Abbott lived in the parsonage of Pilgrim Congregational Church, once located on this site. His stepfather John H. H. Sengstacke, minister of the church, published the Woodville Times. Abbott learned ...

Battle of Nashville

Peach Orchard Hill

On Dec. 16, 1864, Gen. S.D. Lee's Corps, Army of Tennessee, held this right flank of Hood's defense line which ran south along the crest of this ridge. Violent artillery fire and infantry attacks by the corps of ...

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden

1866 - 1932

A pioneer in the field of radio communication, Fessenden was born in East Bolton Township. He left Canada in 1884 and, while a school principal in Bermuda, became a self-taught expert on telecommunication theory. This expertise led to ...

Original Site of First Baptist Church of Austin

The Rev. R.H. Taliaferro of Kentucky organized the First Baptist Church in July 1847. Worship services were first held in the Capitol and later moved to a frame building at 12th and Lavaca. The congregation met in the 700 block ...

Biscuit Basin

This thermal basin is particularly volatile, unpredictable. On August 17, 1959, an earthquake recorded at 7.5 on the Richter scale had its epicenter just a few miles to the northwest.

Four days later, Sapphire Pool began to erupt violently, blowing away ...

Lincoln And Cumberland Gap

Passage to the West

Cumberland Gap became the principal passage between the eastern and western theaters of operation in the Upper South during the war. Whichever side held the high ground here held the Gap.

In 1861, Confederate Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer's ...

The Campbell Kids

Beloved Icons of Campbell Soup Company

When the campbell Kids were created in 1904 for a Campbell Soup Company ad campaign, little did anyone realize what enduring icons the fresh-faced, roly-poly characters would become.

The Campbell Kids first appeared with cans of ...

James Butler Hickok

Alias "Wild Bill"

Born - May 27, 1837

Troy Grove, Illinois

Died - August 2, 1876

Deadwood, Dakota Territory

Victim of the

Assassin Jack McCall

Marker can be reached from Mount Moriah Drive.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Brigadier General Enoch Poor

Born in Andover, Mass. June 21, 1736, Enoch Poor settled in Exeter, becoming a successful merchant and ship-builder. In 1775 he was appointed colonel in the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment. Poor was at Stillwater, Saratoga and Monmouth, and served under ...

Governor Thomas E. Kilby

1865-1943

Outstanding local industrialist as President, Kilby Steel Company; Chairman, Board of Directors, Alabama Pipe Company; President, City National and Anniston National Banks. Served as Mayor of Anniston (1905-09); State Senator (1911-15); Lieutenant Governor (1915-19); Governor of Alabama (1919-23).

His administration as ...