Business Boomed at Big Bull Falls

The earliest American settlers were drawn to Big Bull Falls for the timber business, but other businesses soon sprouted. Lumbermen and their families needed supplies and services. Soon after George Stevens built the first sawmill Wausau began to grow.

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Builder of the Nation

This steam locomotive was presented to the City of Jefferson in 1959 by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company as a permanent exhibit in memory of the important service engines of this type gave to the nation. It was one ...

Joshua Simmons Farm

In 1824 Joshua Simmons of Bristol, New York, obtained a patent from the federal government for 160 acres of land in Livonia Township. Simmons and his wife, Hannah, were among the township's earliest white settlers. Their first home was a ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896-1940

Author of The Great Gatsby (1925). Works published while he resided here: Tender is the Night (1934),

Raps At Reveille (1935), and essays (1934-1936)

later collected in

The Crack-Up.

Marker is on Park Avenue, on the right when traveling ...

The Battle of Malvern Hill

Advance of the Excelsior Regiments

“We reached the field; here were wounded men and the dead, but we heeded them not. We relieved the 7th New York Regiment and poured in a hot fire; still they kept the field, men falling ...

Historic Fort Mackinac

Mackinac Island has been called the most historic spot in the Middle West. Fort Mackinac was first built by the British in 1780-81. It was not until 1796, thirteen years after the end of the Revolutionary War, that the British ...

Old Federal Road

The route leading west from this point is the Old Federal Road, an early thoroughfare which linked Georgia and Tennessee across the Cherokee Nation. Rights to open the passage were granted informally by the Indians in 1803 and confirmed by ...

The Union Fishhook

"On the whole this was an admirable position to fight a defensive battle...."

1st Lt. Frank A. Haskell, U.S.A.

Aide to Brig. Gen. John Gibbon

You are standing on Little Round Top looking north and west over the center of the battlefield. Much ...

Home Of Genl Lachlan MacIntosh

1782-1806

First Constitutional Session

of the Georgia Legislature

held in the "Long Room"

Jany 1783

Headquarters

Genl George Washington

May 1791

Marker is on East Oglethorpe Avenue, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Deep Creek Friends Meeting

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Was established by the North Carolina Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends on March 13, 1793. It was the first Monthly Meeting in this area.

[Back:]

Meetings were held as early as 1783. Deep Creek helped establish Hunting Creek, Forbush, ...