Raleigh Rutherford Haynes / Simpson Bobo Tanner

1885

are known as the fathers of the textile industry in Rutherford County. Near this site was located the first textile mill.

Marker is on Harris-Henrietta Road 0.1 miles north of Main Street, on the left when traveling south.

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The Port and Town of Alviso

The Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department and

The Santa Clara Valley Water District dedicated the Alviso Marina

County Park on September 24, 2005.

First known to the Ohlone Indians, the lands of The Alviso Marina County Park reflect the area’s historic ...

The Duckett Cabin

This hand hewn log cabin was built in Aquasco, Maryland around 1880 as a farm tenant house. This one up and one down design with one room and a loft was typically used for slave cabins during the early 1800s. ...

Union Headquarters

Sherman’s headquarters

were located in the

field 400 yards to the

rear of this marker,

March 20-21, 1865. Head-

quarters of the XVII

Corps, which included

Mower’s Division, were

250 yards to the left

rear.

Marker is at the intersection of Bentonville Road (Local Route 1197) and Harper House Road ...

Confederate Oak

Please ! Do Not Climb On Tree

This great tree is called the Confederate Oak because according to legend, Confederate Soldiers frequently camped under it.

Marker can be reached from Old Sugar Mill Road, on the left when traveling east.

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The Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House

Built in 1855 by Doctor John Stiles Holliday this house has ties to important Georgia personalities such as the legendary “"Doc” Holliday, Georgia Governor Hugh Manson Dorsey, and famous author Margaret Mitchell. In the mid 1850’s the house served as ...

Tredegar Rolling Mills

The Tredegar Iron Works had several rolling mills, which produced rails, bars to be made into spikes, connecting plates for rails, merchant bar iron, and plates. The Tredegar rolling mill’s most famous work was the plates made for the ironclad ...

Why is it called Big Bull Falls?

If you were a french voyageur in the 1600s or arrived with George Stevens in 1838, you would have heard and seen large rapids churning and bubbling here in front of you. Without dams, the river was much shallower than ...

Main Confederate Line

Crossed the road at

this point, March 20-

21. Gen. R. F. Hoke’s

Division occupied this

sector. Scene of much

skirmishing but no

heavy fighting. Earth-

works remain.

Marker is on Devils Racetrack Road (Local Route 1009), on the right when traveling north.

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Industrial Recycling

Iron companies in the late 1800s began melting down scrap metal from old machines and parts to make new products, just as we recycle materials like aluminum cans today. The “car wheel crusher” that stood here broke up old railroad ...