Stockton Family Cemetery

The Stockton Family Cemetery is located on land originally granted in 1859 by Texas governor Hardin R. Runnels to Moses Allen, a veteran of the Siege of Bexar. Douglas Hayden Stockton and his wife Mary Elizabeth (White) brought their family ...

Prehistoric Native Americans / Historic Native Americans

(Circa 8,000 B.C. ~1500 A.D.) / (Circa 1550 A.D.~ 1816 A.D.)

Side A

This area near the mouth of Cypress Creek was inhabited by Archaic People as early as 8,000 B.C. Their main food consisted of freshwater mollusks from the river.

(These mussels ...

Ladies Auxiliary of Local 890

Mine Mill & Smelter

After eight failed negotiating sessions and the expiration of their labor contract, Mexican-American workers at nearby Empire Zinc mine struck for wage and benefit equality. When an injunction prohibited union members from picketing, the women - wives, ...

Fort Sinquefield

Fort Sinquefield

Kimbell - James Massacre

Creek War 1812-13

Erected by Clarke County School Children 1931

Lest we forget Hayden and his dogs.

Marker is on Fort Sinquefield Road west of U.S. 84.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Terre Haute Farm African American Cemetery

Approximately 1 mile southeast of here was a cemetery containing one hundred and sixteen graves associated with the African American community of Huguenot Springs. Historical and archaeological evidence indicates that the cemetery was established prior to the Civil War for ...

Atticus Finch: Lawyer - Hero

"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." These words of Charles Lamb are the epigraph to Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird", a novel about childhood and about a great and noble lawyer, Atticus Finch. The legal profession has in Atticus ...

McFarland Park and Recreation Area

This bottom land serves as a reservoir for TVA's flood control program.

Florence leases it for recreational purposes when not being used by TVA.

Major Robert McFarland, a native of Ireland, his wife, Kate Armstead McFarland, and their seven children resided ...

Puryearville

The Puryearville Methodist Church began as a society near Burnt Corn in 1820 and was located here c. 1830 to c. 1943. Richard C. Puryear deeded 2 acres of land on March 25, 1843 to Isaac Betts, George Watson, William ...

Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin

Casey's Boy

A Yankee forever.

A man who knew only one way to play - to win. As a player for Casey Stengel he thrived on pressure delivering the key play or hit. MVP of 1953 World Series setting record ...

“Lucas’ Raiders”

Front:

The following eyewitness account was written by T. C. McCorvey of Tuscaloosa in April 1865 during the War Between The States.

"A boy of 13 has a distant recollection of some of the incidents of the raid on Monroeville. The first ...