Stankiewicz's Battery

In February 1862 Capt. Peter K. Stankiewicz commanded a battery of one 8-inch howitzer and two 9-pounder iron guns at this location. This battery helped defend against Union Gen. C.F. Smith's attack on Confederate Gen. Simon Buckner's position about ½-mile ...

Truman Capote

(1924-1984)

On this site stood the home of the Faulk family of Monroeville, relatives of the writer Truman Capote. Capote himself lived in this home between 1927 and c. 1933, and for several years spent his summer vacations here. Two of ...

In Memory of Old Abe

1861 • 1881

The soldier bird who was captured in Chippewa County by Chief Sky and taken to Eau Claire by Daniel McCann of Eagle Point. With Company "C" of the Eighth Wisconsin Regiment, he participated in twenty-five battles of the ...

Central Of Georgia Railroad

Shops & Terminal

Has been designated a

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National Historic Landmark

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This site possesses National signifcance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America

1976

Marker can be reached from West Jones Street near Martin Luther King. Jr. Boulevard.

Courtesy ...

Double Bridges

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An ante-bellum Alabama Rd. crossing of Flint River at Owens Island, 1.25 mi. N. of the old DuBignon Ferry & 2.5 mi. N.E. of this point.

Wilson’s Cav. seized Columbus Apr. 16, 1865. On the 17th, Minty’s div. was sent ...

Candler County Courthouse

This property listed in the National Register of

Historic Places

Marker is on West Broad Street (Georgia Route 46/23) near North Kennedy Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Eastland Disaster

While still partially tied to its dock at the river’s edge, the excursion steamer Eastland rolled over on the morning of July 24, 1915. The result was one of the worst maritime disasters in American History. More than eight hundred ...

Birmingham Water Works Company (1887) / Cahaba Pumping Station (

Side A

The Elyton Land Company, which had founded the city of Birmingham in 1871, established a subsidiary, the Birmingham Water Works Company in 1887. Dr. Henry M. Caldwell, President of the Elyton Land Company, contracted with Judge A. O. Lane, ...

Old Colma Railroad Station

Freight Building

In 1870, Southern Pacific Railroad assumed ownership of the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad, which had originally been opened as an independent railroad in 1863. The second stop south of San Francisco, in what was the center of ...

Port Chester Spanish American War Monument

1896   1902

In Proud Memory Of Port Chester

Men Who Volunteered in the War

Of Their Country During the War

With Spain and in the Phillipines

[ north bronze tablet ]

Frank M. Berrien • Howard F. Carpenter • ...