Confederate Futility

The Confederate plan called for dozens of cannon to gather here and on the Poindexter Farm, nearly a mile to the east (your left). Their combined fire, directed at the Union batteries atop Malvern Hill, would clear the way for ...

The McCarty Neighborhood

William Scott and Frances Brown McCarty began laying out a neighborhood here in 1927. By 1950, influential Dalton residents had established one of the city’s earliest subdivisions. McCarty residents pioneered and maintained the Dalton carpet and textile industry whose products ...

Union Labor

Union labor helped build Paducah, including the flood wall on which this mural appears. Unions in construction, business, industry and government helped create a large middle class in Western KY especially after World War II. The region's earliest unions date ...

The Civilian Conservation Corps and Forestry in Texas

Continuing efforts started in the 1920s by the Texas Forest Service (TFS),the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), established through the Emergency Conservation Work Act (1933) during the Great Depression, aided in efforts to preserve Texas forests. CCC enrollees offered fire protection ...

Western Baptist Hospital

On a warm Sunday afternoon in October 1953, Western Baptist Hospital was dedicated as the newest and most modern facility in Kentucky. The foresight of the original seven-member commission, formed in 1945, created a strategically important cornerstone in the Paducah ...

Gap in Federal Line

The 129th, 105th Ill. & 70th Ind., the left of Harrison’s brigade, together with the rest of Ward’s div., 20th A.C. [US] were posted in the low ground 350 yds. N., having just crossed Peachtree Creek. No immediate attack was ...

Mrs. Emmie Fulmer

In Honor or

Mrs. Emmie Fulmer

Age 102 - 1981

Nation's Oldest Active Garden Club Member

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street (South Carolina Route 14) and East Fairview Street on North Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

2nd Regiment South Carolina Infantry

2nd Regiment South Carolina Infantry

Commander

Lt. Col. Franklin Gaillard.

Marker can be reached from Glenn-Kelly Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hotel Brunswick

Constructed in 1909, Hotel Brunswick was built by prominent businessmen, John Mulligan and J. W. Thompson. Kingman's first three story building, constructed of local quarried tufa stone, featured 50 cowboy rooms with shared bath facilities, a dining room with service ...

Maritime Annapolis: An Enduring Legacy

From its earliest history until the 1920s, log canoes, merchant sailing ships, workboats, ferry and steam boats, comprised the majority of vessels in these waters. But after local businessmen developed marinas to accommodate pleasure craft, the landscape of the harbor ...