Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1370

Near here is the site of CCC Company 1370 from 1935-1940. Among the most popular New Deal programs, the CCC was designed to encourage conservation of natural resources and employment training during the Great Depression. CCC 1370 enrollees were actively ...

Historic Oneonta L & N Railroad Depot

Starting in 1889, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, also known as the Birmingham Mineral Railroad, began railroad freight and passenger

service to Oneonta with the completion of the rail line from Boyles Railroad Yard near Birmingham to the Champion Iron ...

White Ash Tree

The tree was a Maryland State Champion White Ash approximately 175 years old when on July 10, 2001 a storm with tornado-like winds took off one of the major limbs and decay was discovered inside the remaining limbs.

The Maryland Department ...

The Barracks

This building housed army enlisted men serving in the artillery or infantry from the 1830s until Fort Trumbull was downgraded to a supply post, in 1907. Built of rough-cut granite, the original stone section dates from about 1830, the ...

Ella Graham Agnew

1872 - 1958

First women extension agent for Virginia and U.S. Department of Agriculture, born and buried nearby. In 1910 she organized tomato and canning clubs in Halifax and Nottoway Counties. Forerunners of 4-H and Extension Homemaker Clubs. A pioneer in ...

Icarus

900 B.C.

Oh that I had Wings. -Thomas Moore.

Mankind began dreaming of flight long ago in ancient Greece. Greek mythology reveals this dream in the tale of young Icarus. King Minos imprisoned Icarus and his father, Daedalus, on the isle of ...

Historic Springfield Baptist Church

Springfield Baptist Church was established on January 27, 1864 prior to the abolition of slavery, and is among the first African-American churches founded in Middle Georgia. Enslaved workers purchased land from Mrs. Nancy Bickers and began monthly meetings. Levi Thornton, ...

Lawrence Park

From 1851 to 1892 this was the location of the first railroad depot in Lawrence County. It was built by the New Albany and Salem R. R. And handled both passengers and freight. Starting in 1876 it was also the ...

The Burning of Greensborough

During the early years of its settlement, Greensborough and Greene County suffered greatly from depredations committed by Indians who occupied the West bank of the Oconee River about eight miles from here. Most tragic of these was the destruction of ...

Fallen Firefighters Memorial

Dedicated October 4, 1981. National Emergency Training Center. Emmitsburg, Maryland.

"Dedicated to the thousands of Firefighters who have lost their lives in the very act of saving others."

Ronald Reagan, President.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Marker can be reached from Seton Avenue (Business U.S. ...