Rising Park Centennial Celebration

July 3, 2009

On this day, July 3, 2009, the City of Lancaster celebrated 100 years of the beginning of Rising Park and the Lancaster Parks and Recreation Department.

Rising Park was originally dedicated July 5, 1909, following the gift of 73 ...

Hendersonville / Arab The Horse

Hendersonville

Settled in 1791 and known as Godfrey Savannah, this area later was the summer home for a colony of Combahee River rice planters. The settlement, known as Hendersonville by 1862, was named for Dr. Edward Rogers Henderson, a local ...

First Secession Meeting Boulder

This stone

marks the spot

where

the

first secession

speeches

were made.

Marker can be reached from Secession Avenue (County Road 01-120) east of Branch Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Batteries C and G, 3d U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Batteries C and G, 3d U.S. Artillery.

Captain Horatio G. Gibson, U.S.A. Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Horse Batteries C and G (Consolidated), 3d U.S. Artillery, crossed the Antietam in the forenoon of September 17, and went into position a short distance south of ...

Battlefield Terrain

The Breakthrough Trail

This bridge spans a small branch of Arthur’s Swamp. The ravine created by this streamlet had important consequences for both the defending Confederates and the attacking Union troops.

The earthen mounds immediately in front of you are the remains ...

Battle of Griswoldville The Advance from East Macon

On Nov. 22, 1864, the 1st Division, Georgia Militia (less the 1st Brigade), with the 1st and 2nd Regiments, Georgia State Line, and Anderson’s Georgia Battery attached, Brig. Gen. Pleasant J. Phillips commanding, marched from East Macon about 8:00 A.M. ...

Battery E, 1st U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Battery E, 1st U.S. Artillery.

Lieut. Alanson M. Randol, U.S.A., Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Early in the afternoon of the 17th, Battery E, 1st U.S. Artillery, crossed the Antietam by the Middle Bridge and relieved Robertson's Battery (B and L, 2nd U.S. Artillery) ...

Battery A, 2d U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Battery A, 2d U.S. Artillery.

Captain John C. Tidball, U.S.A. Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Horse Battery A, 2d U.S. Artillery, moved from its bivouac near Keedysville on the morning of the 17th, crossed the Antietam by the Middle Bridge and, preceded and supported ...

The Civil War in the South Branch Valley

At the time of the Civil War, the South Branch Valley was comprised of many small, independent farms. The mid-19th century was a golden age of agriculture in the eastern United States, and the valley was among the most agriculturally ...

Lieutenant Colonel John C. Black

Lieutenant Colonel John C. Black, 37th Illinois Infantry, ordered the retreat of his regiment and the 26th Indiana to a fence at the foot of the ridge. There, the men faced a Confederate counterattack. Captain William P. Black, brother of ...