Peyton Anderson

Payton Anderson of the Rappahannock Cavalry was severely wounded on picket duty 122 ft. N.W. of this spot May 27, 1861.

The first soldier of the South to shed his blood for the Confederacy.

Marker is on Fairfax Boulevard (Lee Highway) ...

Battle of Davis Bridge

October 5, 1862

Here a force of three brigades under Major General E.O.C. Ord, USA, enroute from Bolivar to Corinth, seized high ground to the east and turned aside the Confederate Army of W. Tennessee, retiring to Holly Springs after its ...

North Carolina Confederate Hospital

Site of the

Confederate Hospital

for soldiers from

North Carolina

1861-1865

Marker is at the intersection of Brown Street and Perry Street, on the right when traveling west on Brown Street.

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Salvation Army

To the Glory of God.

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Under the direction of

General William Booth,

the founder of the Salvation Army,

Commissioner George S. Railton

and seven women

officers unfurled the flag of the Salvation Army

here on March 10, 1880.

Emma Lazarus

(1849 – 1887)

In 1883 this American poet and essayist wrote “The New Colossus” to aid the Pedestal Fund Campaign. Twenty years later her sonnet was cast in bronze and placed inside the Statue’s pedestal. “Give me your tired, your poor, ...

First United Brethren in Christ Church in Kansas

A First Kansas Church

Built by Rev. W. A. Cardwell

see other side

The first church of the United Brethren in Christ, in Kansas, now Evangelical United Brethren, was built by Rew. W. A. Cardwell, in 1856, about 100 ft. southwest of this ...

Ladies Confederate Hospital

Original building

of the

Ladies Confederate

Hospital

1862—1865

Marker is at the intersection of Bollingbrook Street and 3rd Street, on the right when traveling west on Bollingbrook Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

USS Nathanael Greene

SSBN-636

This memorial is dedicated to all U.S. submarine sailors both living and deceased that dared to "take her deep," and especially those submariners that manned the fleet ballistic missile submarine

USS NATHANAEL GREENE SSBN-636

during her 40 plus nuclear deterrent ...

Ordinance of Secession

This Building

stands on the site formerly occupied

by S.C. Institute Hall

where, on December 20, 1860,

was signed and ratified the

Ordinance of Secession

Which withdrew the state of South Carolina

from the Union and led to the formation ...

Church Street

C.F. McCollough

Mayor

City of Greenville

1937-1947

J. Kenneth Cass

Mayor

City of Greenville

1947-1961

C.R. McMillian

Chief Commissioner

S.C. Highway Department

1947-1961

S.N. Pearman

Chief Commissioner

S.C. Highway Department

1961-

Plans for this multimillion dollar project began in 1944, upon request to the South Carolina Highway Department, by the Mayor and City Council of 1944, ...