National Historic Landmark-Hamilton Grange (A. Hamilton House)

National Historic Landmark - Hamilton Grange (Alexander Hamilton House)

This is the only home ever owned by Alexander Hamilton, who was among the important proponents of the Constitution and provided brilliant leadership as the first Secretary of the Treasury.

It ...

La Grange

Settled in 1819 on the site of an Indian trading post, it was named for General La Fayette's ancestral home in France. He visited La Grange in 1824 and called it the "Beautiful Village." Its location on a bluff made ...

LaGrange College – 1831

LaGrange College is the oldest non-tax supported institution of higher education in Georgia. It was chartered in 1831 as LaGrange Female Academy. The charter has been changed three times as the trustees altered the name to LaGrange Female Institute in ...

La Grange Gold Dredge Co. Camp

In this stand of eucalyptus trees lie the remains of the La Grange Gold Dredge Co. Camp. Here unmarried miners lived in a small community while they operated huge dredging machines near and on the Tuolumne River. The camp was ...

LaGrange College

This is the site of

LaGrange College

Chartered in 1830 by act of

the Legislature of Alabama

An Institution of High Order for men

attending chiefly by students

from the southern states.

The college was burned April 28, 1863

by ...

The Lagrange Phalanx

The Fourier System of communal living was attempted here between 1843 and 1848. Approximately thirty families lived by rules established in councils of industry, commerce, justice and education. Their "new social order" was a failure.

Marker is on U.S. 20 ½ ...

Mt. La Grange – Barn Bluff

This bold bluff was a landmark for French explorers who named it Mt. La Grange for its resemblance to a large barn.

Some 10,000 years ago meltwater from the glaciers carved a deep channel in this area. Barn Bluff became an ...

LaGrange County Civil War Memorial

LaGrange Co.

To its Defenders

of the Flag.

Marker is on North Detroit Street south of Michigan Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

LaGrange County Spanish American War Memorial

U. S. S. Maine

Destroyed in Havana Harbor

February 15th, 1898

This tablet is cast from material

recovered from the U. S. S. Maine

Marker is on North Detroit Street south of Michigan Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

LaGrange County Honor Rolls - W. W. I, Korea, and Other Service

This four sided structure has four plaques. (The extreme foggy day prevented getting photos showing the names clearly. Could you help by up-loading clear photographs?? Thank You !)

[ Plaque One ]

Roll of Honor

Citizens of LaGrange County

who served our Country ...