The Indian Boundary Line

Immediately north of this marker runs the Indian Boundary Line which was established on Aug 24, 1816 by a treaty between three U.S. commissioners and the Chippewa, Ottawa and Potawotami Indians to provide a corridor between Lake Michigan and the ...

Liberty Church Grounds

In May 1864, while on its way to Kennesaw and Atlanta Campaigns, the Army of the North seiged Liberty Church and grounds for use as a field hospital.

During the occupation numerous soldiers suffered the trauma of amputation. These body parts ...

Historic Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Erected 1860

Circuit Riders 1847-1853

Formally established 18 October 1853

1st Painted Church in Northwest Georgia

Only Church Where Union and Confederates Worshipped Together in Same Service During the War – April 1864

Union Field Hospital – May 1864

Restored 2002

Marker is on Liberty Road 0.1 ...

Choctaw Indian Academy

1825 - 1843

The U.S. government established at Blue Springs Farm. Home of Vice President R.M. Johnson. Its first Indian school for sons of Indian chiefs. Future leaders of many tribes were educated here.

Marker is on Frankfort Pike (U.S. 460) 0.1 ...

The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

Twenty-Four Minutes of Thundering Hell On Iron Bottom Bay

Friday the 13th November 1942

By July 1942 Japan’s military juggernaut had invaded and occupied Korea, Manchuria, China, Hong Kong, Burma, Borneo, New Guinea, Rabaul, Truk, The Philippines, Aleutians, Marshalls, Carolines, ...

De Martini Winery

Paul De Martini built Clayton Vineyards Winery in 1885 on land formerly owned by Joel Clayton, the area’s first vintner. An Austrian stone mason directed construction, using stone quarried on Mount Diablo and hauled here by wagon teams. This was ...

Alderwood Manor Heritage Cottage

This cottage was built in 1917 by the Puget Mill Company as a residence for the superintendent of the 33-acre Alderwood Manor Demonstration Farm. F.C. McClane was the superintendent until the Company closed the Demonstration Farm in 1933. The property ...

The Birthplace of the Petroleum Industry

West of the Mississippi River, in

this well, drilled by H. G. Johnston,

E. H. Akin, and Charles Rittersbacher

under contract for a water well

for the city of Corsicans in

1894, the first oil in commercial

quantities in ...

Ironton Tanks / Tanks Memorial Stadium

(Side A) Ironton Tanks

Semi-professional football began in Ironton in 1893 with a team known as the Irontonians. The Ironton Tanks, founded in 1919, was a combination of two Ironton cross-town rival football clubs known as the Irish Town Rags and ...

Guale Village at Seven-Mile Bend

Across the Ogeechee River from this point was the northernmost town of the Province of Guale, the village of Satuache. Spanish records place Satuache about 10 miles northeast of Guale’s provincial capital at Mission Santa Catalina (St. Catherines Island). Indian ...