Sandtown

Many generations of the

Prickitt family called it

Prickittown. Several houses in

the area date to the 18th

century.

1847-1997

Marker is at the intersection of Eayrestown Road and Sandtown Road, on the right when traveling north on Eayrestown Road.

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Margaret M. DuPont

Margaret McLeod DuPont was born and raised in Tuscaloosa and graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in Home Economics Education. She worked as a secretary for the Vice President of Reichhold Chemical and as a Stenographer for ...

Woodburn Historic House

Memories of the Plantation Era -- Owners and Tenants

Owners

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, elected Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1822, made Woodburn Historic House his summer home around 1830. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Pinckney was drawn to the life ...

Confederate Burial Trench

(Stone monument)

To the Confederate Dead

in the Trenches

Erected by the U.D.C.

A.D. 1917

(Metal Tablet)

Burial Place

Confederate Soldiers

Shiloh

1862

(Bronze marker)

Unknown Soldier

Confederate States Army

Marker is on Loop road to Confederate Burial Trench 0.1 miles west of Sherman Road, on the right when traveling south.

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Bena Depot

Situated at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, Kern County was part of a natural corridor for a railroad running between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The Southern Pacific Railroad began laying track southward from San Francisco through the ...

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park

Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania—this is the bloodiest landscape in North America. No place more vividly reflects the Civil War’s tragic cost in all its forms. A city bombarded, bloodied, and looted. Farms large and small ruined. Refugees by the ...

Grant Memorial Bridge

The cast iron nameplate mounted on the walkway is one of two that were formerly located on the original Grant Memorial Bridge. The original steel truss structure was constructed from 1925-1927 by the Brookville Construction Company, Brookville, Ohio, at a ...

Photographer’s Studio

The invention of photography and mass production of photographic prints brought images of never before seen people, places and events into American homes.

By the 1850s, people could obtain a photograph depicting their exact likeness at an affordable price. Traveling photographers ...

Washington’s Headquarters

On June 8, 1780 General

George Washington

established Headquarters

at this site in

Connecticut Farms (now

Union Township) after the

British and Hessian

army’s retreat of June 7.

Marker is on Stuyvesant Avenue (County Route 619), on the right when traveling south.

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Hunter Mill Road

Considered to be a main north/south route from Fairfax Court House. Hunter Mill Road served as a key passageway for Union and Confederate traffic during the Civil War. The road was used to travel to and from the great battles ...