Building Four

Great Lakes History Trail Stop 5

The original Drill Hall, now a gymnasium, was designed with battered walls to give the massive building a military, fort-like appearance. Above the main entrance, the architects provided a large ornamentation of the bow of ...

Clarke County Courthouse

Clarke County established 1812. Named for General John Clarke of Georgia. County Seat moved here 1832 from Clarksville to Grove Hill, then known as Macon.

Marker is on Court Street near Main Street, on the right when traveling south.

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Powhatan Courthouse

The first courthouse was built here about 1783 and around it grew the village of Scottville. Named for Revolutionary War Gen. Charles Scott, who was born in the area, the town eventually became known as Powhatan Court House. The present ...

Sandy Run Lutheran Church

Lutheran and Reformed (Calvinistic)

Congregations were worshiping in

a church three miles north of this

site prior to the year 1751. The

church was incorporated in

1788 under the name German

Lutheran Church of Salem on

Sandy Run but later came to

be known as Sandy ...

Gage County Veterans Memorial

To honor all men and

women who honorably

served their country

in the Armed Forces

of the United States

Dedicated

November 11, 1995

Marker is on Grant Street near 6th Street (U.S. 77), on the left when traveling east.

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Powhatan Court House

April 4, 1865

(preface)

After Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant broke through Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s lines at Petersburg on April 2, 1865, Lee ordered the evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond. The Army of Northern Virginia retreated west on several roads, ...

Derwent

Ten miles north is "Derwent", where Robert E. Lee lived in the summer of 1865 as the guest of Mrs. E. R. Cocke. Lee arrived at "Derwent" early in July. While there he was offered the presidency of Washington College, ...

Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church

(Front text)

This church was established in 1809. Its first building, a frame church, was built 1.5 mi. N on Broad Branch. The congregation moved to this site in 1829 and built a second church, also a frame building, in ...

Life at Fort Donelson

"We lived luxuriously in comfortable tents and log huts," one Fort Donelson soldier wrote in the more tranquil days before cold weather set in and the armies clashed. Besides rations of flour, fresh and cured meats, sugar, and coffee, every ...

Grove Hill, Alabama

Front:

Grove Hill, first inhabited by Choctaw Indians, was settled by pioneers in the early 1800s. The settlement was called Magoffin's Store after James Magoffin whose shop, two miles from the present courthouse, opened in 1815. Grove Hill has also been ...