Carnegie Library

This Classical Revival building, built in 1913-14 and designed by Arthur W. Hamby, was one of 14 public libraries built in S.C. between 1903 and 1916 with funding from Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Foundation. A 1938 addition compatible to ...

The Beartooth Plateau

The Beartooth Plateau contains some of the oldest exposed rocks on Earth and provides a unique window into the history of our planet. About 55 million years ago, this massive block of metamorphic basement rock pushed its way upward nearly ...

City of Salisbury

Settled by Scotch-Irish in 1747,

coming from Pennsylvania along the

“Great Wagon Road”. Established as the

county seat in 1753. Named after the

cathedral town (New Sarum) in England.

Largest city in western North Carolina

in the 18th and 19th centuries. Also

served as major center for ...

Little Union Baptist Church

In Memory of

John and Mary Thomas

Sept. 1901

Little Union Baptist Church

[Original Cornerstone]:

Little Union

Baptist Church

Estb. 1903

Marker is on Mine Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Vulnerable in Victory

March 7, 1862 - Mid-Night

It was the fiery end of the best day of Earl Van Dorn's 20 years as a professional soldier. Bone-tired from the jarring of a week-long ambulance ride and still feverish from pneumonia, the Confederate commander ...

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 ...

Seven Days' Battles

New Bridge

Leading up to and during the Seven Days' Battles from 25 June to 1 July 1862, bridges and roads played an important role in the movement of the Union and Confederate armies. New Bridge on the Chickahominy River was ...

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 ...

George H. Carroll Lion Habitat

The lion habitat is named in honor of George H. Carroll (1926-1998), a long-standing friend and supporter of the University of North Alabama (UNA). Mr. Carroll was the loving husband of Virginia Sego Carroll and father of Steven, Judy, and ...

This monument, until 1983 located on the Belle Grove Lawn

200 yards to the west, identified the unmarked graves of

John Hipkins, died 1804; his wife Elisabeth Pratt 1754-1829; their only child Fanny Bernard 1774-1801; and her youngest children; Eliza 1794-1803 and William Bernard, Jr. 1796-1822; also five infant children of ...