St. John Lutheran Church

The first Lutheran worship services in this area were held at the home of early German settler J.E. Pietzsch, who had moved from Austin County. In 1880 a small school and church building was erected on land donated by John ...

Simmons-Edwards House

Has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark

This Site Possesses National Significance

in Commemorating the History of the

United States of America

1975

National Park Service

United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on Legare Street.

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Frederica - Indian Interpreter

Mary Musgrove Matthews " has always

been in great esteen with the General,... for

being half Indian by extract, she had a very

great influence upon many of them, particulary

the Creek Nation...."

William Stephens

February 22, 1740

In 1743, Mary Musgrove Matthews, General Oglethorpe's ...

Site of Booker T. Washington School

With overcrowded buildings at the African American school in southwestern Bartlett, the Bartlett trustees bought four buildings from Camp Swift in Bastrop to enlarge the facilities. A bond issue passed in 1948, and plans began for a U-shaped building. Otto ...

Wood's Brigade

Hardee's Corps

C.S.

Army of the Mississippi

Wood's (3d) Brigade

9th Ark. Batt., 8th Ark., 27th Tenn., 16th Ala., 44th Tenn.,

Hardee's Corps.

About 650 men of these regiments were engaged here from 12 M. to 2 P.M. April 7, 1862.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Mount Vernon's Historic Square

Mt. Vernon’s public square was laid out in 1816. The present court house, built in 1876 at a cost of $95,000, dominates the public square with its Italianate-style elegance. The brick and stone building is lavishly decorated with bracketed projecting ...

First Baptist Church of Bartlett

Originally known as Pecan Grove Baptist Church, this fellowship was organized in 1873 by the Rev. M.V. Smith, The Rev. H.I. Kimball, and the Rev. G.W. Baines, great-grandfather of United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson. In 1884 the church was ...

Frederica - Old Burial Ground

" This Frederica is a very strange place; it

was once a town-the town,the metropolis of

the island."

Francis Anne Kemble

Visitor to Frederica

1839

Here, in unknown graves more than two centries old,

lie many of the early settlers of Frederica. Although

the town they ...

Posey County History / Early Mt. Vernon History

[ Left Plaque ]

Posey County History

The first recorded white man to come to Posey County was Tom Jones in 1794. Posey County was named in honor of Thomas Posey. Governor of the Indiana Territory at the time it was created ...

Cross Roads

Beauregard's Headquarters

"Cross Roads"

Beauregard's Head Quarters

2 to 6 P.M. April 6, 1862

Marker is at the intersection of Corinth Road and Hamburg-Purdy Road, on the left when traveling north on Corinth Road.

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