Big Spring

May 17, 1864: Butterfield's (3d) div., 20th A.C [US], marched this way from Field’s Mill, Coosawattee River, enroute to Kingston & camped at the Smith farm 2 ½ miles N. of Mosteller’s Mills.

May 18: Schofield's 23d A.C [US], marching from ...

Great Friends Meeting House

In 1639, Helen and Nicholas Easton, John Clarke, William Coddington and others left Portsmouth, the settlement founded in 1638 by Anne Hutchinson and others on the northern end of Aquidneck Island. They came south and founded Newport. Newport’s European settlers ...

McClure’s Ferry

May 16, 1864. Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker (20th A. C.) [US], moving E. from Resaca, with orders to cross at Newtown Fy., elected to usurp the crossing at McClure’s thereby forcing Schofield’s 23d A. C. [US] to proceed E. to ...

Cleyson L. Brown Neighborhood

The Abilene community would have taken a much different shape had it not been for the influence of C. L. Brown. Known as an industrialist, utilities magnate, financier, philanthropist, and organizing genius, Brown was responsible for the formation of the ...

Fruita Schoolhouse

Mormon settlers valued education highly. Therefore it is not surprising that the Fruita residents donated the land, materials, and labor for this schoolhouse and the money for teachers' pay. The building opened in 1896. Eight grades were taught in ...

Victims of the Boston Massacre

The remains of

Samuel Gray

Samuel Maverick

James Caldwell

Crispus Attucks

and

Patrick Carr

Victims of the Boston Massacre,

March 5th, 1770,

were here interred by order of the

Town of Boston.

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Here also lies buried the body of

Christopher Snider

Aged 12 years,

Killed February 22nd, 1770

The innocent victim of the

struggles between the ...

William Chester Ruth

(1882-1971)

African American inventor who opened a blacksmith and machine shop here in 1923. He did metal work and repairs, primarily for Pennsylvania German farmers. Ruth designed and patented many agricultural devices, most notably his 1928 baler feeder. He also applied ...

Home of Captain James Lawrence

This property, the home of

Captain James Lawrence

while attending school in

Woodbury, was presented to

the Gloucester County, N.J.

Historical Society by

George M. Beckett

Edward Tonkin Bradway

Fannie V. Watson Bradway

James Cooper Griscom

Howard Clark Hendrickson

Edgar F. Hurff

Victor E. Kugler

Henry W. Leeds

Mahlon W. Newton

William Richman

Isaac D. Sayre

John ...

Cherokee

(Tsalagi)

The Cherokee referred to themselves as

Tsalagi or Aniywiyai which means the

"Principal People". Cherokee used the

area around Ninety Six as a hunting

ground, where they hunted deer,

turkey and even buffalo.

Marker can be reached from South Cambridge Road (State Highway 248).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Harlan’s Cross Roads

Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield’s Headquarters, May 16, 1864

Hovey’s 1st and Judah’s 2d divs. Of Sheffield’s 23 A.C. [US], enroute from Resaca battlefield crossed the Conasauga river at Fite's Fy. intending to pass the Coosawattee at McClure’s Ferry, 1.25 mi. ...