The Weir-Pittsburg Coal Field in Cherokee County

The 1st Deep Mine, Scammonville, KS

In 1874 four brothers from Illinois, the Scammon brothers, pioneered new methods of mining coal in southeastern Kansas, digging the first mine shaft in Cherokee County. Although many doubted that their room-and-pillar system would work ...

Hood's Division, Longstreet's Command

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Hood's Division, Longstreet's Command,

Brig. Gen. John B. Hood, Commanding.

September 15-16, 1862.

Hood's Division withdrew from its position on South Mountain and marched to Sharpsburg during the night of September 14, acting as rear guard to the Army of Northern Virginia.

It reached ...

Confederate Hospital

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During the War Between the States, 1861-1865, 155 Confederate soldiers, wounded in the Battle of Atlanta and evacuated, died in several improvised hospitals in Barnesville. This marks the site of the main hospital. A marble headstone marks each soldier’s grave ...

Reserve Artillery, Longstreet's Command

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Reserve Artillery, Longstreet's Command,

Col. Stephen D. Lee, C.S.A., Commanding.

Organization.

Ashland Artillery Va.,

Bedford Artillery Va.,

Brooks Artillery S.C.,

Madison Light Artillery La.,

Eubank's Battery Va.,

Parker's Battery Va.

September 15-16, 1862.

The Reserve Artillery crossed the Antietam about 8 a.m. of the 15th and took position on the ...

Longstreet's Command

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Longstreet's Command.

Maj. Gen. James Longstreet, Commanding.

September 17, 1862.

Early in the day several brigades of this command were sent to the vicinity of the Dunkard Church in support of Jackson's Command.

At about 9:15 a.m. French's Division, and shortly thereafter Richardson's Division ...

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway

"Father of the Interstate Highway System"

In August 1973, the U.S. Congress designated a cross-country stretch of Interstate as the “Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway,” in tribute to President Eisenhower’s early recognition of the need for a national network of highways to ...

Longstreet's Command

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Longstreet's Command,

Major General James Longstreet, Commanding.

(September 14-16, 1862.)

Longstreet's command, consisting of D.R. Jones' and Hood's Divisions and Evans' Brigade, with D.H. Hill's Division of Jackson's Command, withdrew from its position on the South Mountain during the night of September 14, ...

The President's Mansion

In 1838 The University of Alabama Board of Trustees appropriated funds for a more suitable residence for the University's new president Basil Manly. The mansion on this site was built between 1839 and 1841 from plans provided by Michael Barry ...

Lutheran Church Site and Cemetery

Lutheran Van Buskirk

Church Cemetery

1704

Designated Historic Site

1994

Teaneck Historic Preservation Commission

Marker is at the intersection of River Road and Maitland Ave, on the right when traveling south on River Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Summit–Selby Neighborhood

This area has long been a meeting place of people and ideas. In the 1850s two major overland routes converged just a few blocks from here. By the 1880s the district was a bustling residential area for both the wealthy ...