Bethesda Presbyterian Church

A Church Divided

Bethesda Presbyterian Church, completed 1835, is a powerful reminder of the effect of the Civil War on the Tennessee home front. As the war clouds gathered, conflicting sympathies divided the congregation, and the church closed its doors. After ...

Phillips Mills Baptist Church

On June 10th, 1785, 16 members met in a mill on this site owned by Joel Phillips, a Revolutionary soldier, and organized Phillips Mills Baptist Church. The Rev. Silas Mercer, leader of the group, became the first pastor of the ...

Type Cemetery

The earliest anglo settlers of this area came to the vicinity in the 1840s. They called their community Post Oak Island for an isolated oak grove between Bastrop and Circleville. Many of these pioneers had moved on by the time ...

Whittemore Park

“Uncle Sam”

The birthplace of Samuel Wilson once stood near the main crossroad of the Northwest parish of Cambridge, the center of the district known as Menotomy. Wilson, born on September 13, 1766, was only eight when Paul Revere passed ...

Civil War Parrott Rifle

10 Pounder Rifle

From Watervliet Arsenal Designed

By Robert P. Parrott and Cast at

The West Point Foundry.

Used by the Union Forces These

Guns were Mounted on Carriages

Made at Watervliet Arsenal Where

Ammunition was also Made. This Is

One of Four Parrott Rifles Excavated

At the Site ...

Emmanuel Episcopal Church

Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.

Marker is at the intersection of US 301 James Madison Parkway and Walsingham Road, on the right when traveling south on US 301 ...

Birthplace of Madison

At this place, Port Conway, James Madison, fourth President of the United States and Father of the Constitution, was born, March 16, 1751. His mother was staying at her paternal home, Belle Grove, 400 yards east when her son was ...

Yankee Stadium September 11 Memorial

We remember

On September 11, 2001, despicable acts of terrorism were perepetrated on our country. In tribute to the eternal spirit of the innocent victims of these crimes and to the selfless courage shown by both public servants and private citizens ...

A Tradition of Remembering, A Legacy of Preservation

Eleven years after the battle of Rivers Bridge,

a group of local young men formed the Rivers

Bridge Confederate Memorial Association and

reburied the Confederate dead here, about a

mile from the battlefield. The Memorial

Association began to meet at the site ...

Pea Ridge

Confederate Monument

(Front):The Brave

Confederate

dead

who fell on

this field

Mar., 6,7, & 8

1862.The graves of our dead with the grass evergreen

May yet form the footstool of Liberty's throne;

And each single rock in the war-path of Alight.

Small yet be a rock in the Temple of ...