Camp of 45th Illinois Infantry

Marsh's Brigade - McClernand's Division

U.S.

Camp of

45th Illinois Infantry

Marsh's (2d) Brig., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

First position in line of battle April 6, 1862, was 300 yards S.E., on west side of Review Field.

Marker is on Sherman Road ¼ mile ...

Freemason Street Baptist Church

In May 1848 former members of the Cumberland Street Baptist Church organized to become the Freemason Street Baptist Church. A new church building was begun that year and completed and dedicated in May 1850.

The Reverend Tiberius Gracchus Jones, a ...

Fur Trade

To the Headwaters

An abundance of beaver encouraged Corps of Discovery members John Colter and John Potts to return to the headwaters. In 1808, Blackfeet Indians killed Potts in a confrontation and stripped Colter bare, giving him a chance to run ...

James Buchanan Duke Library

Erected 1956 Renovated 2004

In Memory of

James Buchanan Duke

1856-1925

Philanthropist, Master Builder, Creator of the Duke Endowment, and Benefactor of Humankind

This library is named in honor of Mr. Duke in grateful recognition of his generous support of Furman University.

"Education, When Conducted Along ...

Fort Adams

History you can Touch

Explore the casemates where the big guns once roared.

Discover how 8 soldiers worked together to load and fire each cannon.

Step into the quarters where the soldiers and their families lived.

Ascend to the scenic overlook for a breathtaking ...

You Are Remembered – Rest In Peace

This marker has been dedicated in memory of more than six hundred persons of Japanese ancestry reinterred here in 1956 with several thousand others, whose remains were removed from New Helvetia Cemetery, the present site of Sutter Middle School ...

Washington (La.) Artillery

Anderson's Brigade -- Ruggles' Division -- Bragg's Corps

C.S.

Washington (La.) Artillery,

Anderson's (2d) Brig., Ruggles' (1st) Div., Bragg's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

This battery was engaged here, and 200 yards in advance, from 12 M. to 2 P.M. April 6, 1862. Its next ...

Benjamin D. Tillar, Jr.

Benjamin Donaldson Tillar, Jr. (1853-1887), a Greensville County native, president of the Atlantic and Danville Railroad, and member of the House of Delegates, is known as "the man who named Emporia." Two villages, Hicksford and Belfield, merged in 1887 to ...

First People in the Gallatin Valley

To the Headwaters

For centuries distant and diverse tribes visited the Gallatin Valley to hunt. They stampeded buffalo over cliffs during the "dog days" before the acquisition of horses and guns. They hunted animals for food, clothing and shelter. They also ...

Taylor-Whittle House, 1791

This Federal style house is one of the oldest remaining buildings on Freemason Street, a fashionable address in the expanding Borough of Norfolk at the turn of the nineteenth century. It stands on property confiscated from the estate of Loyalist ...