Sweetgrass Baskets

Coil baskets of native sweetgrass and pine needles sewn with strips of palmetto leaf have been displayed for sale on stands along Highway 17 near Mount Pleasant since the 1930s. This craft, handed down in certain families since the 1700s, ...

A.P. Hill Escapes Capture

The Battle of the Wilderness

On the morning of May 6, General A.P. Hill stretched his battle lines across the Chewning farm, closing a dangerous gap in the Confederate line. Before Hill's troops arrived, a Union regiment broke into the clearing ...

Las Vegas Fort

In 1855 Pres. Brigham Young appointed a company of men under the leadership of William Bringhurst to establish a colony at Las Vegas. The company left Salt Lake May 10 and arrived at Las Vegas June 14, 1855 and camped ...

Liberty Hill

Liberty Hill, established in 1871, is the oldest community in what is now North Charleston. In 1864 Paul and Harriet Trescot, "free persons of color" living in Charleston, owned 112 acres here. They sold land to Ishmael Grant, Aaron Middleton, ...

The Whispering Oak

A Witness

Nov. 6. 1792

The International Society of Arborculture and the National Arborist Association jointly recognize this significant tree in this bicentennial year as having lived here during the American Revolutionary Period.

1776 - 1976

Dedicated by

Eaton Current Events Club

April 13, 1977

Marker can ...

Three Notch Road / Hank and Audrey Williams

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Three Notch Road

Established 1824

The Three Notch Road was a 90-mile section of a 230-mile military road to connect Pensacola with Fort Mitchell in Russell County on the Chattahoochie River. Capt. Daniel E. Burch marked the route using three notches ...

Scientific Research

World War II

Before the United States entered World War II, German U-boats again inflicted death and destruction on the seas by sinking Allied ships as they had in World War I. In January 1942, the month after the United States ...

Hart Station

Erected by his friends and the Escambia County Bar

Association in memory of James Edward Hart, Jr.

(1942 – 1992), who contributed much to his community, his church and his profession. He loved trains. Due to his efforts, passenger service ...

Site of Rose Cottage

A look at Civil War Corinth

Among Corinth’s countless stories of personal wartime tragedy is that of General Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate Commander of the War in the West , who made his headquarters in Rose Cottage. After Johnston received a ...

Loring’s Hill

July 20, 1864. The high hill, within the forks of Tanyard Branch, was occupied by troops of Maj. Gen. W.W. Loring’s div. of Stewart’s A.C. [CS].

From this hill & a sector W. of it, Scott’s & Featherston's brigades, of ...