Four Mile Creek Baptist Church

The Baptist Church of Christ on Four Mile Creek was constituted at Clayton Springs on the 5th of August, 1781. In 1828, church members moved the meeting house four miles west to its present location. In the fall of 1864, ...

4th Maine Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Corps

(Front):4th Maine

Infantry

Colonel Elijah Walker

(Left Front Facing):3d Corps. 1st Division.

2d Brigade.

(Left Rear Facing):

22 killed and died

38 wounded

56 missing

(Right Rear Facing):Erected by the

State of Maine

(Right Front Facing):In remembrance

of our casualties

July 2d, 1863

Marker is at the intersection ...

Fort Washington

1789 - 1808

This monument stands at the site of

the fort that served as a major military base

for the Northwest Territory.

This stone replica of a blockhouse was

originally dedicated June 14, 1901

Rededicated at present site

November ...

Escape of Caroline, 1847

Side one:

Caroline and her four children escaped Kentucky slave owner October 31, 1847; they crossed Ohio River near Madison. After passing near here, Fugit Township black and white residents hid family close to Clarksburg. While hidden, family seized by a ...

Birthplace of Alexander Hamilton Stephens

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"Little Alec,” Vice-President of the Confederacy, was born nearby in a log cabin Feb. 11, 1812, son of Andrew B. & Margaret Grier Stephens, a poor farm family. At his parents’ death he was educated by an uncle, Gen. A. ...

The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives

Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995), pioneering historian of the American Jew, founded the American Jewish Archives (AJA) in Cincinnati in 1947. In the aftermath of World War II and the brutal destruction of European Jewry, Marcus anticipated the need ...

Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion

Hebrew Union College (HUC), founded in Cincinnati in 1875, is the oldest institution of higher Jewish learning in the United States. Its founder, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900), was a leading proponent of Reform Judaism in America. In 1950, ...

Boyhood Home of Dr. Winthrop Smith Sterling

Dr. Winthrop Smith Sterling (1859-1943) founded Mu Phi Epsilon International Professional Music Fraternity on November 13, 1903, at the Metropolitan School of Music in Cincinnati, where he served as dean. The Victorian frame house was built by his parents, ...

Battlefield

Site of Only Land Engagement

at Tampa between Confederate &

Union Forces, Oct. 17, 1863

A Federal detachment of 124 men from U. S. gunboat Tahoma & Steamer Adela after firing 2 blockade-runners moored upriver fell back under Confederate assault without entering the ...

Battle of Averasboro

Battle

of

Averasboro

March 16,

1865

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[ Right of Monument: ]

In

memory

of our

Confederate

Dead

who fell upon

that day.

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[ Back of Monument: ]

The hearts

that were

true

to their

country

and

God

shall report

at the

Grand Reveillre.

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[ Left of Monument: ]

Dulce et Decorum

est pro

Patria Mori.

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Marker is on McLellon Road (North Carolina Route 82), on the left when ...