Daniel Huger House

c. 1760

Handsome Georgian "Double House" constructed of brick but covered by stucco after 1886 earthquake. Drawing room has handsome ceiling plaster work decorations and carved overmantel with ionic pilasters. Residence of last Royal Governor Lord William Campbell, whose flight ended ...

Kilroy Was Here

During World War II this was a symbol for the American serviceman. Any place in the world where one of them went he would see it. It was found in restrooms, on trucks, tanks, ships, bombed out walls, and almost ...

Prairie Mission

A United Presbyterian Mission

Prairie Mission was established in 1894 by the Freedmen’s Board of the United Presbyterian Church of North America to educate the children of ex-slaves. The Mission consisted of a church, school building, dormitories for male and female ...

Postal Routes of 1820

Two miles north of this point was the intersection of two important postal routes of early Alabama, the Saint Stephens-Cahawba Road and the Tuskaloosa-Prairie Bluff Road.

Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 28 and State Highway 162, on the ...

James Ireland

Minister of the Gospel

In memory of

1746 James Ireland 1806

Minister of the Gospel

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland and converted in Frederick County, Va.

Baptized and ordained at Sandy Creek, N.C. Imprisoned at Culpeper,

Va. for preaching the gospel organizer of Baptist churches,

pastor of Buckmarsh ...

History of San Mateo’s Bridges

In 1923, the cities of San Mateo, Burlingame, and Hillsborough began planning for a bridge to link the San Francisco Bay peninsula cities with East Bay and Central Valley communities. Even after the Dumbarton Bridge opened, in 1927, these municipalities ...

Georgia School for the Deaf

In 1833, a deaf man, John Jacobus Flournoy, of Jackson County, great grandson of Jacob Flournoy, a French Huguenot, urging education for the deaf, interested Governor Wilson Lumpkin and the Georgia Legislature in the educational movement. At first the pupils, ...

Henry Bacon

1866-1924

Architect of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and many other public structures. Home is here, grave, Oakdale Cemetery.

Marker is on South 3rd Street (U.S. 74) 0.1 miles south of Dock Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Missionary Movement

While some wanted to "Americanize" the relocated Indian tribes, others wanted to offer aid. Missionaries set up schools to convert the Indian children to Christianity and to teach them vocational skills. Many Indians preferred to maintain their own beliefs and ...

Hill's (5th) Tennessee - 23rd Tennessee - 24th Tennessee

Cleburne's Brigade - Hardee's Corps

C.S.

Hill's (5th) Tenn., 23d Tenn., 24th Tenn.,

Cleburne's (2d) Brig., Hardee's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

These regiments were engaged here at about

4.30 p.m. April 6, 1862. They afterwards advanced until checked by the fire of field artillery and ...