The Bluff: Witness to History

This piece of land has always been called the Bluff, meaning a hill with a broad, steep face. This site’s history suggests another meaning for bluff – to hoodwink.

It was here that a delaying tactic permitted an escape, that a ...

Davis's Brigade

Heth's Division - Hill's Corps

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

Hill's Corps Heth's Division

Davis's Brigade

2nd. 11th. 42nd. Mississippi

55th. North Carolina Infantry

July 1 Formed west of Herr's Tavern crossed Willoughby Run about 10 a.m. Advanced in line ...

The Naegel Building

In 1893 Robert Naegel built this two-story structure featuring an elaborate metal facade that reflects a combination of Italianate and Queen Anne architecture. The Capital Finance Corporation was located here for nearly 40 years, beginning in the late 20's. The ...

Smokey Bear

This is the resting place of the first living Smokey Bear. In 1950 when Smokey was a tiny cub, wildfire burned his forest home in the nearby Capitan Mountains of the Lincoln National Forest. Firefighters found the badly burned cub ...

The Cahaba Heart River of Alabama

On Cahaba Mountain to the NW, springs form a fragile stream that grows as it carves through the steep, rocky terrain of Birmingham suburbs, flowing south on the Gulf Coastal Plain to the Alabama River, at the site of Alabama's ...

San Juan Bautista Historic District

San Juan Bautista Historic District

has been designated a

REGISTERED NATIONAL

HISTORIC LANDMARK

Under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

This site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating or illustrating

the history of the United States

Marker is on Second Street, on the right when ...

Barn Theatre

The Barn Theatre, originally constructed in 1943 by Robert M. Cook as a dairy barn, is the home of Michigan's oldest resident summer stock theatre. Such theatres use a group of actors who perform consecutive productions of different shows. Founded ...

Battle of Connecticut Farms

7 June 1780

In honor of the American soldiers who lost their lives

in defense of our newly formed nation at the

Battle of Connecticut Farms

7 June 1780

We dedicate this flagpole to all American Servicemen and Women

who served their country during the last ...

The First Presbyterian Church

Organized as the Presbyterian Church of Macon on June 18, 1826, by the Rev. Benjamin Gildersleeve and the Rev. Joseph C. Stiles, the church dedicated this house of worship, its third, on September 19, 1858, at the close of the ...

Castro - Breen Adobe

This adobe building erected about 1838 on a grant of 1500 Spanish varas from the Mexican Government to Don Jose Maria Castro, interim Comandante General 1845-1846 and interim Governor of Alta California 1835-1836. Deeded by him February 7, 1849 to ...