“A Determination That Knew No Such Word as Fail”

The Breakthrough Trail

As the Vermonters pushed closer to the Confederate fortifications, they encountered the multiple rows of obstructions specifically designed to pin down an attacking force. Here, the Confederates extracted a terrible toll on the desperate Federals, who struggled to ...

Don Reno/The Blue Ridge Quartet

Don Reno

1926 - 1984

Don Reno was an immensely influential banjo player and one of the founding figures in the bluegrass movement. Born in Spartanburg, Reno recorded more than 500 songs during his career, many with collaborator Red Smiley, and is ...

Liberty Methodist Church

Liberty, which evolved out of a Methodist society organized about 1775, is Georgia`s oldest Methodist Church. The original log church was erected west of here by Samuel Collins who, in 1773, had emigrated from Ireland. The present church building is ...

Safety Follows Wisdom

Portland Cement Association

Safety Trophy Award

Ideal Cement Compamy

San Juan Bautista, California for a

Perfect Safety Record in 1960

Marker is on Fourth Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Dictator

Sept. 1864: “…the enemy frequently shoot very large shells into Petersburg & do some damage to buildings, but the people are getting used to it, so they don’t mind them….”

- A.I.P. Varin 2nd Mississippi

Famous but militarily ineffective, the “Dictator” fired ...

Buford's Bloody Battleground

Col. Buford's 11th Virginia Regiment and a detachment of Washington's Cavalry, retreating after the fall of Charles Town, were attacked by Col. Tarelton, May 29, 1780, at the site of the monument 955 feet southwest. The American loss was 113 ...

The Barrel Landing Schoolhouse

The name Barrel Landing (also spelled Barrell) comes from a nearby docking and landing area on the Okatie River initally used by early settlers of the Okatie community in the period following the Revolutionary War. Farmers and tradesmen used the ...

McLaws' Division, Longstreet's Command

C.S.A.

McLaws' Division, Longstreet's Command.

Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws, Commanding.

September 17, 1862.

McLaws' Division left Harper's Ferry on the forenoon of September 16th, crossed the Potomac at Blackford's Ford about daybreak of the 17th, and halted in the western suburbs of Sharpsburg at ...

Seminole Indian Scouts' Cemetery

(Founded on Fort Clark Reservation, Sept. 1, 1872)

Burial site of heroic U.S. Army men, families, and heirs. These Seminoles came mainly from Florida about 1850; lived in northern Mexico or Texas; joined Lt. (later a general) John L. Bullis and ...

Braddock's Military Road 1755 Salt Lick Camp

This tablet marks the site of General Edward Braddock's sixteenth encampment named "Salt Lick Camp." Here Braddock's army camped July 3, 1755, after having marched six miles from Jacobs Cabin Camp. The circuitous route via Mount Pleasant was made to ...