Pee Dee Church

Duncan McIntire, a licensed minister who preached in Gaelic for those who could speak no other language, organized this Presbyterian congregation shortly before 1829. The present vernacular Gothic Revival structure was completed by 1851. A number of other congregations had ...

Jackson's Military Road

Side 1

After the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, General Andrew Jackson proposed this road as a shorter and improved route for military movements between Nashville and New Orleans. The U.S. War Department authorized Jackson to appoint an engineer and ...

Tuscumbia Big Spring

Tuscumbia Big Spring

Big Spring (average daily flow 35,000,000 gallons) provided water for town founded on its banks.

Michael Dickson of Tennessee was first settler (about 1817). Town laid out in 1819 and incorporated as Ococoposo (Cold Water, 1820).

Name changed to ...

3rd Iowa Infantry

Williams' Brigade - Hurlbut's Division

U.S.

3d Iowa Infantry,

Williams (1st) Brig., Hurlbut's (4th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee

This regiment was engaged here at 4 p.m. April 6, 1862. It fell back through its camp at 5 p.m. where ...

Old Pioneer Cemetery

This was the first established cemetery of Fort Gaines. The earliest death date on a stone marker is 1830. The tombs of Georgia Militia General John Dill and his family are found in an enclosed lot. Reverend John E. Brown, ...

Howell & Graves School

Marker Front:

Muscle Shoals City was incorporated on April 24, 1923. Among the leading developers were New York realtors A.L. Howell and C.T. Graves. Their interest in Muscle Shoals was inspired by the vision of Henry Ford to use power ...

George Washington Statue

George Washington was born in Virginia on February 22, 1732. As a boy, he excelled in field sports, and though

his formal education was limited, he exhibited skill in mathematics and surveying.

In the French and Indian War, though ...

Where Houston Enlisted

Here, where Blount County's first courthouse stood, Sam Houston "took a dollar from the drum", thus marking his first enlistment in the United States Army, March 24, 1813. This culminated in his command of the Army of Texas, which decisively ...

Powell's Battery

Battery F, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery - Unassigned

(front)

Illinois

Battery "F"

2nd Regiment Lt. Artillery

Unassigned

Army of the Tennessee

(back)

Powell's Battery, "F"

Capt. J.W. Powell, wounded.

Reached this position about 10:00 a.m., April 6, 1862, and until 4 p.m. was in action on this line. Casualties in ...

Captain Robert Keayne

Born in Windsor England 1595

Member of the Honourable Artillery

Company of London 1623

Devoted citizen of Boston

from 1635 to death in 1656

Liberal contributor for a town library for the maintenance of a free schoolmaster, for introducing pure water to Boston and for ...