A Whirl on the Ferris Wheel

A Self Reliant People

To your right it is the former Merritt Educational Center which operated from 1943 to 2008. However, if you were standing here in the 1920s or '30s, in its place you would have seen exuberant crowds ...

Unknown Confederate Dead

Forty ~ five unknown Confederate soldiers, “known but to God,” are buried in this cemetery. These men died of wounds or disease in the Confederate hospitals in Greensboro, 1863 ~ 1865. These hospitals were the Dawson, Bell, Polk, Court House, ...

David Goff House

Edward Hart, son of John Hart who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, purchased the house standing here in 1795. Col. David Goff, a prominent Beverly lawyer, purchased it in 1830, and added the larger front portion of ...

John F Black School House

This simple schoolhouse, built in 1898, is typical of small schools built in the turn of the century. Was built on land belonging to John F. Black and served until 1912 when a larger school replaced it.

Marker can be reached ...

Site of the Oregon Trail

1830 - 1876

Over 300,000 persons passed along this trail in the years of its use to build an empire beyond our western frontier.

Marker is on East Bertrand Street (U.S. 24) west of Grand Avenue, on the right when traveling west. ...

Inner Defenses 1864

A line of shallow entrenchments extended from near this point along the crest of the hill to the east. These works were occupied by the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute, who had marched here with General Breckinridge after the ...

Franklin J. Fischer Addition

Opened in September, 1999

This fifteen-acre addition to the Valley View Cemetery was purchased in 1998 from Robert Bailey.

The addition is named for Franklin J. Fischer because of his dedication, commitment, and service to the Valley View Cemetery for fifty years ...

First Commissioner of Agriculture

In 1874, the Georgia Department of Agriculture was established by Act of the Legislature with Thomas P. Janes serving as its first Commissioner, 1874-79.

Commissioner Janes, born 1823 in present Taliaferro County, (formerly the eastern part of Greene County), moved to ...

Petersburg Breakthrough Battlefield

Has been designated a

National Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America.

In the predawn darkness of April 2, 1865, the Union Sixth Corps

successfully breached the Confederate defenses southwest of Petersburg.

The breakthrough forced the Confederate ...

Pennsylvania Farm Show

First held in January 1917, the Farm Show took place each year at various Harrisburg locations until 1931, when it moved to the new Main Exhibition Building here. The Large Arena first opened for the 1939 show. From modest beginnings, ...