Andrew Jackson's Military Road

-1817-

Construction of this road, as ordered by General Andrew Jackson, began in May 1817 by troops of the U.S. Army for national defense purposes. Beginning near Nashville, Tennessee and continuing to Madison, Louisiana, it shortened the distance from Nashville to ...

Old Rapides Bank Building

This structure was built on property that once belonged to Alexander Fulton. He had acquired it at the end of the 18th century from Marguerite Cecile Christophe Varrangue. Various persons occupied this site until it was acquired by Rapides Bank ...

3 - inch Ordnance Rifle

Model 1861

These guns could defend against a cavalry attack. Loaded and aimed at the prison yard, Confederate cannon also discouraged mass escape.

Gun data

Gun tube: Wrought iron, 817 lbs.

Projectile: Shell and case shot

Range: ½ mile with case shot

Marker is on Cemetery ...

Quaker Burial Ground

The following people were buried at the Quaker meeting house graveyard on King Street and were reinterred at this site in 1974.

(Left Column)

John Allen - 1720

Bena Austin - 1735

John Cooper - 1715

Mary Fisher Bayly Crosse ...

September 11th, 2001

"Greater love hath no man than to

lay down his life for his fellow man"

This is a remnant of an iron girder from the World Trade Center in New York City. It is enshrined here in remembrance of those who gave ...

"0" Mile Post General Crook Trail

The Crook Road begins at this point

with the first in a series of mile markers

across the Mogollon Rim segment of the

military supply trail connecting Forts

Whipple, Verde and Apache. Reconnoitered

in 1871 by General George Crook with ...

Le Sieur Christophe Anne Poulain Du Bignon

(1739- 1825)

Horton - Du Bignon House

Du Bignon Burial Ground

Beginning with Poulain du Bignon, five du Bignon generations made Jekyll Island one of Georgia`s most romantic Golden Isles. This tabby ruin and burial ground alone remain from Jekyll Island's century (1794-1886) ...

Arch of Constantine

IMP • CAES • FL • CONSTANTINO • MAXIMO • P • F • AVGUSTO • S • P • Q • R • QVOD • INSTINCTV • DIVINITATIS • MENTIS • MAGNITVDINE • CVM • EXERCITV • SVO • ...

The Christian Index

America's oldest existing religious newspaper was first published on this city block at 925 E Street on February 2, 1822. Founded by the legendary Baptist leader Luther Rice, the paper was originally known as The Columbian Star and utilized ...

Louisiana Maneuvers

In 1940 Lt. Gen. Stanley D. Embrick of the U.S. Army Fourth Corps Area, Atlanta, Ga., selected central Louisiana as site of training maneuvers to prepare American forces for possible involvement in war in Europe. Louisiana's 1941 maneuvers were the ...