Calaveras County Hospital Cemetery

In this cemetery lie the remains of 600 Calaveras pioneers. All died in the once adjacent county hospital and were interred here between 1890 and the 1910’s. Mostly older men, they lacked the means to be buried in a church ...

Pioneer Settler / Founder of Reamstown

Pioneer Settler

Johann Eberhard Ream, born in Leimen, Germany on October 6, 1687 came to America with his family in 1717. They were the first white people in this area, having arrived here in 1723 or 4. He received two grants ...

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial

“Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war,

and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace,”

General Ulysses S. Grant.

Hiram Ulysses Grant, mistakenly listed as Ulysses Simpson ...

Savannah in the American Revolution

When political dissent evolved into armed

revolution in America, Oglethorpe's colony

had only been in existence for four decades.

Georgians confronted the same political and

economic issues associated with British

taxation as the more established colonies. A

general deterioration of Royal authority

intensified when news of ...

Reamstown

1760 - 2010

Settled around 1724 by Everhard Ream and founded as a town by his son Tobias Ream in 1760, originally called Zoar. In 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a field hospital was set up here for wounded soldiers from ...

Ancient Buried Forest

Two Creeks Buried Forest State Natural Area

Located on a high, eroding bluff along Lake Michigan, Two Creeks is an ancient forest of pine, hemlock, and spruce that established about 12,000 years ago. During various glacial advances and retreats water, silt, ...

Laurens County Veterans Monument

In honor

of our armed forces

past and present

dedicated to the

preservation of

freedom under God

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street (State Highway 76) and North Carolina Street, in the median on West Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Kilpatrick on Bryan Neck

On Dec. 12, 1864, the 3rd Cavalry Division [US], Brig. Gen. J. L. Kilpatrick, USA, covering the right rear of Gen. Sherman`s army which was then closing in on Savannah, crossed the Great Ogeechee River near Fort Argyle and the ...

The Oriental Saloon

1880

The Oriental Saloon was opened in 1880 by Milton Joyce with the gaming concessions run by Lou Rickenbaugh. The Epitaph News described it as "the most elegantly furnished saloon this side of the Golden Gate". Wyatt Earp bought a share ...

The Xzanders G. McFarland House and McFarland Gap

Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail

Mr. Xzanders Gordon McFarland of Walker County(Rossville Georgia) was a slave holder. So when the Civil War took his two oldest sons into the army, he gathered his slaves, his four teenage daughters and his stock and ...