Poygan Paygrounds

In 1836 the Menominee Indians ceded all their lands between the Wolf and Fox Rivers to the United States Government. Payment was made every October, in twenty annual installments, on these grounds. All their remaining lands were ceded in 1848 ...

First Methodist Episcopal Church

The origins of the First United Methodist Church can be traced to 1831 when preacher Elijah Pilcher arrived in “Jacksonburgh” to serve the town's growing Methodist community. Services were held around town until a small church was erected in 1850. ...

Appomattox Campaign (Sutherland Station)

At Sutherland Station, on 2 Apr. 1865, the Confederates made a last attempt to maintain control of the South Side Railroad. Confederate Maj. Gen. Henry Heth organized the defense before returning to the main line in Petersburg. Brig. Gen. John ...

Point of Honor

Spies in Lynchburg

Col. Robert Owen, president of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, owned Point of Honor during the war. This railroad, one of three that served Lynchburg, transported thousands of Confederate troops as well as wounded, supplies, prisoners of war, ...

Peach Monument

[Marker Front]

This monument is erected out of respect for the peach, delectable fruit of a friendly soil and a beneficent sun.

Upon a pedestal we place it as a symbol of God's bounty and man's enterprise.

Spartanburg County has the ...

Hull of the Packet Boat Marshall

Famous canal boat

of the

James River and Kanawha Company,

which conveyed the body of

Stonewall Jackson

from Lynchburg to Lexington,

May 13, 1863

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Riverside Street and Rivermont Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

A Splendid Field of Battle

Union commanders chose an ideal location to fight their last battle of the Seven Days. As many as 40 cannon covered the one-half-mile front, stretching from the slopes of Crew’s Run on your left to a similar drop to Western ...

Stephen D. Ramseur

1837-1864

West Point graduate. A Confederate major general at 27; mortally wounded, Cedar Creek, Va. Grave 2 blocks N.

Marker is on East Main Street (State Highway 27), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Packet Boat Marshall

Bringing Stonewall Jackson Home

After Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson died on May 10, 1863 as a result of wounds suffered a week earlier at the Battle of Chancellorsville, his body was transported first to Richmond for public mourning and then ...

1897 Poe House

Built in 1897 by Fayetteville businessman E. A. Poe and his wife, Josephine, the house is part of the Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex. It is representative of upper-middle-class homes of the period. Tours offer a glimpse of ...