Exchanging Iron Valentines

We awaited with deep anxiety the result of the attack and severe bombardment of the river batteries by our gunboats. Gloom ... ensued upon the news reaching us of their failure and withdrawal from the contest.

H.W. Dudley, Taylor's Battery, McClernand's ...

The Burning of Chambersburg

During the Gettysburg campaign, Confederate troops were restrained, under orders, from destroying non-government property. By the time of the Rebels’ next raid into the North, however, the policy had changed.

On July 30, 1864, Brigadier General John McCausland and 2,800 ...

Artist Emerson Burkhart

Side A:

Described as a Columbus "institution" when he died in 1969, Emerson C. Burkhart was born on a farm in Union Township, Putnam County in 1905. The son of Albert and Nora Burkhart, Emerson graduated from Kalida High School in ...

Abolitionist John Brown Boards in Chambersburg

Preparing for the raid on Harpers Ferry arsenal, John Brown came to Chambersburg in the summer of 1859 wearing a beard as a disguise and using the alias of Isaac Smith. He took up residence at Mary Ritner’s boarding house ...

One-Room Schoolhouse

The Mount Jackson or Potato Point School, originally built in 1865, is an authentically reconstructed one-room schoolhouse. It was relocated here in 1969 by alumni and friends of Shippensburg State College to preserve part of America's educational heritage.

Marker is on ...

Lucius Mendel Rivers

(Left Panel)

South Carolinian

Born in

Berkley County

September 28 1905

Died at Birmingham

Alabama

December 28 1970

He spoke for

his neighbors

and strove to keep

his country strong

(Right Panel)

Statesman

and

Patriot

S.C. House of

Representatives

1933 1936 ...

McWilliam Park Whale Burial Site

Whales (generally humpback or southern-right) can provide a magnificent spectacle off this coastline during their annual migration south, from September to November.

Many long-time residents of Tuross Head can recall the arrival of a whale on the beach below, in November, ...

Rev. Thomas Reese English

One mile east stood the home of T.R. English, Presbyterian minister, statesman, delegate to the Secession Convention. After attending S.C. College, he was admitted to the Bar and served as a legislator, 1830-1832. Ordained in 1833, as the evangelist of ...

Sir Thomas Mitchell

From this vicinity Sir Thomas Mitchell's second expedition proceeded on April 7, 1835 to the Darling River, his third expedition on March 19, 1836 to Australia Felix (Western Victoria), and his fourth expedition on December 15, 1845 to Tropical Australia ...

Middle Spring Presbyterian Church Commemorative Marker

In commemoration of

the sacrifice and service

of the men of Middle Spring

Patriots-Pioneers

Builders

Site of First Log Church

1738

Marker is on Macclays Mill Road.

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