32 Legare Street Sword Gate House

Legare Street is named for goldsmith Solomon Legare “the Huguenot,” who built the first house on this property. Before the lot left the family in 1803, his descendants had become wealthy plantation owners and commission merchants.

This large U-shaped house ...

Busenbark / Dr. Charles F. Richter

1900 - 1985

Side A: Busenbark

In 1833, Robert Busenbark deeded land to the directors of School District No. 6 for Busenbark School. Twenty years later, Robert and son David granted a right-of-way on their property for a station on the Cincinnati, ...

French Mtn. Hamlet

A 19th century community with

the Halfway House, Brown's store

plank road tollgate, School #14,

sawmill, tannery, race track,

Post Office and 14 residences.

Marker is on Lake George Road (U.S. 9), on the right when traveling south.

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Welcome to Historic Edgefield

Home of Ten Governors

Andrew Pickens, II * George McDuffie

* P.M. Butler * J.H. Hammond

* Francis Pickins * M.L. Bonham

* J.C. Sheppard * Ben Tillman

* J.G. Evans * Strom Thurmond

" Edgefield has had

more ...

Clarke County Soldiers Of The American Revolution

Lemuel Alston, William Armistead, Thomas Bradford, John Bradley, William Cochran, John Cox, John Creighton, Benjamin Darby, John Dean, Sr., Matthew Gayle, John Giles, William Goode, John Harvey, Aaron Lewis, Axom Lewis, Thomas Moody, Elijah Pugh, Joel Rivers, Elias Scarborough, Robert ...

Hallidie Tramway

In 1894 Andrew Hallidie, inventor of San Francisco’s cable cars, built an aerial tramway on his hillside property, Eagle Home Farm. It served as a model for prospective customers. The tramway stretched 7,341 ft from this vicinity to a station ...

Colored and White Soldiers of World War 1

This is a replica of the original tablet from the 1924 World War I monument located in front of the Clarke County Courthouse. The monument was the first memorial ever erected to honor county war dead. It cost $1,650 and ...

Iron Banks

So named by early French explorers. Columbus was proposed as the nation's capitol after the War of 1812. The area was fortified by the Confederate army during the War Between the States.

Marker is at the intersection of Hoover Parkway (State ...

United States Post Office and Courthouse

This property

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

United States Post Office

and Courthouse

c.1933

Marker is at the intersection of East Stewart Avenue and North Third Street on East Stewart Avenue.

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Heroes of Bataan

The New Mexico Story

More than fourteen hundred New Mexicans fought with the 200th Coast Artillery (CAC) Regiment defending the Philippines and the Bataan Peninsula at the beginning of World War II. The regiment received the Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation with ...