Raleigh Rutherford Haynes / Simpson Bobo Tanner

1885

are known as the fathers of the textile industry in Rutherford County. Near this site was located the first textile mill.

Marker is on Harris-Henrietta Road 0.1 miles north of Main Street, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Port and Town of Alviso

The Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department and

The Santa Clara Valley Water District dedicated the Alviso Marina

County Park on September 24, 2005.

First known to the Ohlone Indians, the lands of The Alviso Marina County Park reflect the area’s historic ...

Get Up Bell

In the early 1900's when Cliffside Mill was built, a bell tower was erected to house this bell. It towered above the mill and looked out over the town. This bell was named the "Get Up Bell" by the people ...

700 South Peters

Built in 1910-11 for the

Orleans Manufacturing Company.

This historic structure is

architecturally significant to

the Historic Warehouse District,

listed in the National Register

of Historic Places.

Marker is on South Peters Street near Girod Street, on the right when ...

1917 * Camp Gordon * 1919

Constructed during America´s rush to mobilize for World War I, Camp Gordon was one of 16 temporary training camps, the largest in the southern states and

the focus of Atlanta´s wartime patriotic spirit. It served as birthplace and training ground for ...

First Battle of Petersburg

Kautz’s Effort Stopped Here

In May 1864, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched attacks on Confederate armies across the South. He accompanied Gen. George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac as it fought Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia from ...

Forsyth Park

In the 1840s, William Brown Hodgson (1801-1871) conceived the idea of setting aside ten acres of wooded land at this site for development of Savannah's first recreational park. It was named for former Georgia Governor John Forsyth (1780-1841). William Bischoff ...

First Army Corps

Magilton's Brigade, Meade's Division

U.S.A.

First Army Corps.

Magilton's Brigade, Meade's Division.

Col A.L. Magilton, 4th Pennsylvania Reserves,

Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Magilton's Brigade advanced from the North Woods about 6:30 a.m. and, passing a few yards east of D.R. Miller's House, formed line on the left ...

The Widow Tapp House

The Tapp Farm exemplifies the lifestyle of most Wilderness residents. Catharine Tapp, age 55 in 1860, leased her land from the Lacy family who owned nearby Ellwood. The Widow Tapp shared her modest 1-1/2 story log home with five relatives ...

Saint Peter’s Churchyard & Old Van Cortlandtville Cemetery

Saint Peter’s Churchyard

Church built in 1767

and

Old Van Cortlandtville Cemetery

adjoining on the southeast

In this burying-ground are interred

Forty Four known soldiers

in the war of the American Revolution.

There is a monument to

John Paulding

erected ...