Second Regiment

U.S. Sharpshooters

Sept. 17, 1862

Company E,

Capt. Homer R. Stoughton

—————

Company H.

Lieut. Albert Buxton

Vermont

Marker is at the intersection of Cornfield Avenue and Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling west on Cornfield Avenue.

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Quecreek Mine Accident and Rescue

On July 28, 2002, nine coal miners, trapped for four days due to flooding of the Quecreek Mine, were saved via a rescue shaft drilled here. Combined efforts of local, state, and federal agencies, mining and other industries, local mine ...

The Blackshear Road

At this point the highway was originally known as the Blackshear Road. It was planned and cut out in 1815 by Major Elijah Blackshear and a company of Georgia Volunteer Militia. This road gained fame as the alternative route used ...

Confederate Cemetery

Originally the site of a pioneer cemetery, many early residents are buried here. In 1866, returned Confederate soldiers, under the leadership of Maj. William Hume and David Lawrence, collected and reinterred here the bodies of soldiers who fell at isolated ...

Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse

(NHL Plaque)

Ponce de Leon

Inlet Lighthouse

Has Been Designated A

National

Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America

1998

National Park Service

United States Department of the Interior

(NRHP Plaque)

Ponce de Leon

Inlet Lighthouse

Has Been Placed On The

National Register

Of Historic Places

By The ...

Grand Central Hotel

Historical Plaza Walking Tour Stop 9

Arthur Larkin was one of Ellsworth's first businessmen. The Larkin House was his first establishment, but it burned in 1869 destroying the entire block. Mr. Larkin then determined to build the finest structure possible ...

Longstreet's Command

Law's Brigade, Hood's Division

C.S.A.

Longstreet's Command.

Law's Brigade, Hood's Division.

Col. E.M. Law, 4th Alabama Infantry, Commanding.

Organization.

4th Alabama Infantry,

6th North Carolina Infantry,

2nd Mississippi Infantry,

11th Mississippi Infantry.

September 16, 1862.

On the evening of the 16th Law's Brigade advanced from the field in front of the ...

Lewis David von Schweinitz

1780 - 1834

Moravian administrator.

Botanist and pioneer in

American mycology. Dis-

covered falls 3 mi. SW.

Marker is at the intersection of North Carolina Route 89 and Hanging Rock Park Road, on the left when traveling east on State Route 89.

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William R. Geddings Fish Culture House

Dedicated in memory

of

William R. "Randy" Geddings

S.C. Department of Natural Resource

Fisheries Biologist

for his 26 years of service

to the

protection and conservation

of

S.C.'s trout resources.

Marker is on Fish Hatchery Road.

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Fort Wayne - Detroit

No hostile shots have ever been fired from this star-shaped fort built in the 1840s to guard against a British invasion from Canada which never came. This third bastion to protect the river approach to the city was named for ...