Goodnight Trail

In hostile Indian years of 1866-71, route of great cattle drives from Texas to US forts in Colorado and New Mexico. Col. Charles Goodnight, trailblazer, drove thousands of cattle to water here. Site later became Childress.(1886) Cattle watering hole is ...

Lincoln Highway Delaware River

State Line

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«New York

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Leb-Iron

Permanent

Guide Board

The Lincoln Highway Official

Guide Post Adopted A.D. 1917

Cast by

The Lebanon Machine Co

Lebanon NH

Patent applied for

Marker is at the intersection of ...

De L Aigle Brick Yards

In 1808, Nicholas de L Aigle, a French

refugee established brick yards 1/4 mile

south which furnished Augusta with

building bricks for 75 years. River clay

was "pugged" to the right consisteney

in a cylindrical vat by a stone turned

with mule-power, and hand-moulded

into bricks ...

George's Tavern Crossroads

In 1792 Captain William George (1760-1827), a veteran of the Revolutionary War, established near this site on River Road an ordinary which stood until about 1900. During the campaign of 1781, General Von Steuben crossed the James River at Cartersville, ...

Grant Park

Buckingham Fountain

[Decorative features listed left to right; click on marker to enlarge]

Console

Size: 7’-0” high 3’-6” wide 6’-0” deep

Material Pink Marble

The console is a decorative bracket carved as a vertical scroll and projecting from the wall to support the water sculpture. ...

Lieutenant George A. Woodruff

(Front):

Lieutenant George A. Woodruff (1840-1863) graduated early from West Point because of the start of the Civil War. Young Woodruff served valiantly with the Army of the Potomac. At Gettysburg he was mortally wounded while defending the center of ...

St. Andrew’s Church

(Episcopal)

1834 - Organized as mission by Rev. Caleb S. Ives for settlers coming here to the Canebrake from Atlantic Seaboard

1844 - made parish of Diocese of Alabama

1851 - this site selected

1853-54 - this building erected

Marker ...

John D. Pierce Homesite

On this foundation stood the log house of the Reverend John D. Pierce. Born in New Hampshire, Pierce moved to Marshall in 1831, where he founded the Congregational church. In 1834 he and Isaac Crary designed Michigan's school system, and ...

James A. Miner

James A. Miner, born in Marshall in 1842, began studying law in Clinton, Iowa, in 1860. Completing his studies in Marshall, he was admitted to the Calhoun County bar in 1863. There he was circuit court commissioner (1866-1870) and prosecuting ...

Old Courthouse – 1848

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This courthouse built in 1848 at a cost of $1,637 replaced one built in 1839 and was burned in 1845. The courthouse now in use was built at Buena Vista, then Pea Ridge, in 1850 when the county seat was ...