Panther Springs

1/2 mile along the Old Stage Road, a thriving pioneer community grew up around the enormous spring at which one Col. Bradley killed a panther. Panther Springs Academy was here. Tate's Store, also the post office, was the meeting place ...

West Milton Korean War Memorial

A

Korean War

Memorial

1950

to

1953

5.7 Million Americans Served

55,000 Americans Killed

103,000 Were Wounded and

8200 Americans

Missing in Action

Dedicated 24 December 1988

Marker can be reached from Cemetery Drive.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Redland Baptist Church

Liberty Baptist Church, established in the Redland community in 1859, became Redland Baptist Church after reorganizing in 1895. Worship services were held in a local schoolhouse until 1924 when the congregation built its first sanctuary. A new church building was ...

Straus Home Site

Here stood the small frame house in which Lazarus Straus and his family lived when they came to Talbotton in 1854. Seeking a new home in America after leaving Bavaria, Straus visited Talbotton during a “court week” and decided to ...

First United Methodist Church of Lufkin

Margaret (Fullerton) Abney, born in Alabama in 1829, joined the Methodist church with her family at a camp meeting held at nearby McKendree campground in 1863. Because the nearest Methodist church was ten miles away, Mrs. Abney held bible study ...

John Jacob Heyer

Historical Marker

Eight Hundred fifty-three feet west of

this marker lies the Northwest corner

of the three hundred acre tract

granted by

The Colonial Governor's Council

to John Jacob Heyer, Sr.

and his wife Mary Magdalene Wagner

of Pfalzgrafenweiler, Germany,

who landed with their children

John, Jacob, ...

Grumman F9F-5 Panther

LCDR John Joseph Magda, USN

John Joseph Magda, Jr. was born in Camp Taylor,KY 1918. He attended Western Kentucky State Teachers College in Bowling Green, KY. After graduation in 1940, he enlisted in the United States Navy and completed flight training ...

Where Dixie Begins

City of Hickman

Hickman, county seat of Fulton County, Kentucky, was originally settled in 1819 as Chicken Point, the name was later changed to Mills Point and finally Hickman. One of Mark Twain's favorite towns on the river, Hickman, once a ...

Major General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

One of the Founders of the American Republic

Born February 25, 1746, Charleston

Member of Provincial Assembly 1769

District Attorney General for South Carolina 1773

Member of Provincial Congress 1775

Officer of the Continental Army 1775

Prisoner of War 1780-82

Valentine Baxter Horton

Born 1802 - Died 1888

He built in Pomeroy in 1836, the world's first towboat, the Condor. Member the 34th, 35th, and 37th Congresses of the U.S. Member of President Lincoln's peace conference in 1860 [sic - 1861]. President of the ...