Guns Gins and Devil Carts

Garrison guns were heavy and awkward to move. To be transported, the barrel had to be taken off the carriage with the help of a tripod hoist or gun gin. The gin was equipped with a pulley system that made ...

The Cemetery on Burying Ground Hill

1695 - 1890

These stones from the first cemetery in Waterbury, now the site of Library Park, were placed here at the suggestion of various patriotic organizations

Marker is on Meadow Street 0.1 miles south of Grand Street, on the left when ...

Claggett’s Millrace Bridge

Although it vaults only a millrace deflected from Antietam Creek proper, this small but well-designed one-arch bridge is typical of many others that have not survived at mill sites in the county. It is not certain that John Weaver built ...

Concordia Veterans Memorial

In memory of those

who served in the

Civil War

Spanish-American War

World War.

Marker is on Main Street (Missouri Route 23) near SW 6th Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Washington’s Headquarters

For six months this quiet path was a congested thoroughfare. Express riders from Congress, civilians requesting passes, guards posted around the house, couriers rushing out with new orders, foreign officers seeking employment, continually jammed this road during the encampment.

At the ...

Georgia Confederate Soldiers

We sleep here in obedience to law;

When duty called, we came.

when country called, we died.

Marker is on Cornfield Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

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Longstreet's Command

Wofford's Brigade, Hood's Division

C.S.A.

Longstreet's Command.

Wofford's Brigade, Hood's Division.

Col. W.T. Wofford, 18th Georgia Infantry, Commanding.

Organization

18th Georgia Infantry,

Hampton (S.C.) Legion,

1st Texas Infantry,

4th Texas Infantry,

5th Texas Infantry.

September 16, 1862.

On the approach of the First Army Corps on the Evening of the 16th, Wofford's ...

Battlefield Landmarks - South and West

"Being satisfied from the reports received from the field that it was the intention of the enemy to support with his whole army the attack already made, and the reports of Major-Generals Hancock and Howard on the character of the ...

Old Polk County Courthouse

Polk County was established February 8, 1861 formed from eastern Hillsborough County and western Brevard County and comprised one of two counties created after the state's secession from the union. Polk County was named after James Knox Polk the eleventh ...

First Country and Western Recording

(North Face)

Erected August 16, 1971

Honoring

A.P. Carter

Sara Carter

Maybelle Carter

Jimmie Rodgers

Who recorded the first Country and Western music to be distributed nationwide in Bristol, Tennessee on August 2, 1927

(West Face)

Dedicated by the people of Bristol

The Historical Committee of the Greater Bristol ...