Site of New Bern Church, School, and Cemetery

Swiss and German immigrants who settled here in the early 1890s named their settlement for Bern, Switzerland. In 1892 the newly organized St. John Lutheran Church built a sanctuary which also housed the New Bern school here on 2.5 acres ...

The Weir-Pittsburg Coal Field in Cherokee County

The 1st Deep Mine, Scammonville, KS

In 1874 four brothers from Illinois, the Scammon brothers, pioneered new methods of mining coal in southeastern Kansas, digging the first mine shaft in Cherokee County. Although many doubted that their room-and-pillar system would work ...

Fishing Creek Baptist Church

Fishing Creek Baptist Church, the second of this denomination to be constituted in the upcountry of Georgia, was organized in 1782, under the leadership of the Rev. Sanders Walker, who became its first pastor. It was one of five churches ...

The Battle of Ox Hill

(Kiosk Panel): Sequel to Second Manassas

The Battle of Ox Hill, September 1, 1862

The Confederate victory at Second Manassas (August 28-30, 1862) forced Union General John Pope’s Army of Virginia to retreat to the heights of Centreville. To dislodge ...

Lexington Public Library 1905 - 1989 / A Carnegie Library

Lexington Public Library

First library west of the Alleghenies was est. in Lex. in 1795 as a subscription library. The Women's Club of Central Ky. worked for a free public library, and, in 1902, Andrew Carnegie gave $60,000 to build Lex. ...

War Between the States

1861-1865

The following Penna. Commands

were organized and recruited

entirely or in part in Franklin County.

2nd Regt. Inf. – Co’s. A. B. C. • 35th Regt. Inf. – 6th Reserves Co. D. • 41st Regt. Inf. – 12th Reserves Co. K. • 43rd ...

Alabama Governor's Mansion

Built 1907

For almost the first century of statehood, Alabama's governors lived in private homes or hotels while in office. In 1911 the state acquired the Moses Sable home on South Perry Street for the governor's residence. Lined with fine houses, ...

Summit–Selby Neighborhood

This area has long been a meeting place of people and ideas. In the 1850s two major overland routes converged just a few blocks from here. By the 1880s the district was a bustling residential area for both the wealthy ...

Bourbon Whiskey / Jacob Spears

Bourbon Whiskey

Named after Bourbon Co. because of quantity and quality of whiskey produced within its borders. Made from a fermented mash of at least 51% corn, with less wheat, rye, or barley, yeast and limestone water. Distilled at no more ...

French Burying Ground

French Burying Ground

First used 1677

Placed by

David Demarest Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

1955

Marker is on Patrolman Ray Woods Lane, on the right when traveling west.

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