167 Main Street at Conduit Street

This site owned by Amos Garrett was surveyed as Lot 46 on James Stoddert's 1718 plan of Annapolis. The Lloyd Dulany family lived here from 1761 until 1783. The group of buildings known successively as Mann's Tavern, City Tavern and ...

Waycross Confederate Monument

(South face)

1861 - 1865

[Crossed flags]

Confederate

Dead

(East face)

The impartial enlightened

verdict of mankind will

vindicate the rectitude

of our conduct,

and he who knows the

hearts of men, will judge

the sincerity with which

we labored to preserve

the government of our

fathers in its spirit

Jefferson Davis. ...

Asbury United Methodist Church

Site of the oldest and most prominent African American congregation in Annapolis, MD. In 1803, seven free African Americans bought the land and established the First African Methodist Episcopal Church. It was closed in 1832 in a local reaction to ...

Howard's March to Jonesboro

Aug. 1864. Howard’s Army of the Tenn. [US], having abandoned siege operations on the W. side of Atlanta, moved S. in a flanking march to cut the West Point R.R. at & below Shadnor Ch. On the 30th, the army ...

Captain James Lawrence & Lieutenant Augustus C. Ludlow

In memory of

Captain James Lawrence

of the United States Navy,

Who fell on the 1st day of June 1813, in the 32nd year of his age, in the action between the frigates Chesapeake and Shannon. He was distinguished on ...

Bethesda Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

In 1879 William Lee Henderson (b1808), his wife Eleanor Shelby (b1817) and their nine children moved from their Alabama home to Texas by wagon train. Church records indicate worship services were held in a shelter built by the Hendersons shortly ...

Windmill Point

During the War of 1812, the British blockaded the Chesapeake Bay and sent raiding vessels up the rivers and creeks to plunder and destroy property. The lookout at Windmill Point (about a mile east) on Fleet’s Island reported that on ...

Historic Mt. Gilead

Methodist Church

One of the first churches in Fulton County, Mt Gilead was founded April 23, 1824, by Rev. John M. Smith (1789-1863) who is buried here. It was organized by Rev. William J. Parks. Many early settlers worshiped here and ...

Ross County World War I Memorial

In honor of

the boys from Ross County

who gave their lives

in the service of their country

1917 - 1919

Allen, Albert F. • Bitzer, Russell • Bollinger, Albert • Bower, Donald B. • Brown, Edward B. • Brown, Elmer ...

Hold the Hedgerow!

Major General Charles Lee had only 800 men to try to stall more than 2,000 advancing British troops. The Continentals beat back one cavalry charge before the British grenadiers were upon them. After 3 to 5 minutes of firing at ...