Headquarters General U. S. Grant

Night of April 6, 1862.

General in his Memoirs says:

"During the night rain fell in torrents and our troops

were exposed without shelter. I made my headquarters under a tree a few hundred yards from the river bank."

The large ...

General Albert Sidney Johnston

C. S.

General Albert Sidney Johnston

Commanding

the Confederate Army,

Was mortally wounded

at 2.30 P.M.,April 6, 1862,

Died in ravine, 50 yards

south-east, at

2:45 P.M.

Marker is on Hamburg-Savannah Road.

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Stratton Burying Ground

Purchased for $120 by Evesham

in 1813 from Enoch and Hannah

Stratton for a public burying

ground. Became part of Medford

upon the founding of the

township in 1847.

1847-1997

Marker is on Stokes Road (County Route 541) north of Himmelein Road, on the left when traveling ...

Lincoln-Haycraft Memorial Bridge

Here along Severn's Valley Creek, Samuel Haycraft, Sr. built mill, raceway in 1796. Thomas Lincoln, father of Pres. Lincoln, employed in building it, received his first monetary wages when about 21 years of age. Abraham Lincoln, age 7, with his ...

Confederate Memorial

(Back of Monument - Center):The States of the South

sent to the Battle of Shiloh

seventy nine organizations of infantry

ten organizations of cavalry and

twenty three batteries of artillery

How bravely and how well they fought

let the tablets ...

Cannon Made in Mount Holly

Used in Revolutionary War

Erected By

Camp No 71 P.O.S. of A.

Mount Holly, N.J.

1915

Marker is at the intersection of High Street and Union Street, on the right when traveling south on High Street.

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The Brace Road School

In the 1830’s James Still,

Herbal Doctor of the Pines,

attended here. The

earliest of Medford’s

four rural one-room

schools, it closed in 1918.

Marker is at the intersection of Church Road and Ark Road, on the left when traveling east on Church Road.

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Gilbert-Alexander House

In the 1780’s Felix and William Gilbert, Virginians, camped in a beautiful grove here and were so pleased with the scenery that they returned later to take land grants. In 1808 they erected the brick portion of this house, one ...

General Winfield Scott

General Winfield Scott followed John Wool (1836-1837) and William Lindsay (1837-1838) as commander of Federal troops in the Cherokee nation. Scott arrived at New Echota, Cherokee Nation on April 16, 1838 and assumed command of the "Army of the Cherokee ...

The Milledgeville Hotel and Oliver Hardy

On this corner stood the Milledgeville Hotel built in 1858 while Milledgeville served as Georgia's capital. In 1903 Emily Norvell Hardy took over management of the hotel. She moved into the hotel with her two youngest children, including eleven-year-old Norvell ...