Battle Branch

September 2, 1864

The only battle fought in Coffee County during The War Between the States

Just east of this spot, at the branch head, a battle occurred between the Coffee County Home Guards and Ward’s Raiders, a group of Confederate deserters ...

KCBQ “Top 40” Personalities

1958 to 1978

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In 1958, here at 9416 Mission Gorge Road, then owner Lee Bartell built the KCBQ AM 1170 radio broadcast facility with its 50,000 watt transmitter and six two-hundred foot towers. For many years, KCBQ AM ...

Robert J Crawford

In memory of our brother Robert J Crawford April 1, 1939 - Sept. 11, 2001 and all our brother knights who perished on September 11 at the World Trade Center

Marker is at the intersection of Flatlands Avenue and E. 40th ...

The Neighborhood

Prominent places in the colonial landscape

Accotink Village:

The town of Accotink was started as a 17th century meeting place. During the colonial period a gristmill and racetrack were located here.

Pohick Church:

Truro Parish was established in 1732 for Virginians north of the ...

Whitesbog Village

Historic Whitesbog Village has its origins in 1857 when James A. Fenwick began cultivating cranberry bogs at this location. His son-in-law Joseph Josiah White took over management of the farm upon Fenwick's death in 1882, and not long after the ...

A Swashbuckling Merchant

Irish-born adventurer John O’Donnell (1749–1805) was a native of Limerick who made his way to India as a youth. He sailed into Baltimore on a late summer day in 1785 aboard a ship laden with Chinese goods, thus opening Baltimore’s ...

Mt. Pleasant Misionary Baptist Church

1874

Founded near Double Bridges Creek (LeCompte Place) three miles southwest of the present location. First Pastor: J. W. Bullard. Charter members: Mr. & Mrs. Jack Nichols, Mr. & Mrs. Joe Jones, Mr. Bob Howell, Miss Lizzie Gilbert, and Mr. Lige ...

The McDonoghs of Baltimore

Baltimoreans associated the name McDonogh with a well-known private school founded in 1873. Buried here are the parents of the school's founder, Irish natives John (1734-1809) and Elizabeth McDonogh (1747-1808).

John McDonogh, a brickmaker, took part in two events that shaped ...

Dauphin Deposit Bank Building

The structure across the street is the oldest bank building in the Harrisburg Metropolitan Area and stands as an icon to the financial institution that helped to fuel the City's growth since the 1830's. Survivor of several Economic Panics, the ...

Benning's Brigade

Hood's Division - Longstreet's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Longstreet's Corps Hood's Division

Benning's Brigade

2d. 15th. 17th. 20th. Georgia InfantryJuly 2 Formed in line about 4 p.m. in rear of Law's and Robertson's Brigades and moving forward in support took active part in ...