Jonesboro Threatened

August 30, 1864. On receipt of Hardee’s report from Rough and Ready of Federal threats to the M. & W. R. R., at Jonesboro, Hood directed Hardee & S. D. Lee [CS] to come to headquarters. The locomotive N. C. ...

Fort Donelson

The mounds of earth you see before you are the remains of Fort Donelson, which originally covered 15 acres. Confederate soldiers, and enslaved African Americans built the fort over a period of seven months. The walls, made of logs and ...

Grand Army of the Republic / The G.A.R. Hall

(Front):

In 1866 northern Civil War veterans organized the Grand Army of the Republic to fight for veterans' pensions and other benefits. Michigan's first chapter was formed the next year. National membership peaked in 1890 with 409,489 men, while Michigan's ...

Gardner House Museum

Augustus P. Gardner (1817-1905), a wealthy hardware merchant, built this Victorian style house in 1975. A three-story, thirteen-room mansion with a mansard roof, it was Gardner's home until his death in 1905. In 1966, after decades of neglect, the house ...

First Presbyterian Church

(Front)

In February 1837 the Reverend Calvin Clark, a circuit riding pastor sent by the American Home Missionary Society, met with twenty-four persons and organized the Albion Presbyterian Church. The first church was built in 1840 on the corner ...

King's Road

The British laid the original route for King's Road between 1772 and 1775 in an effort to encourage settlement into this area. Extending from St. Mary's, Georgia to Andrew Turnbull's Minorcan colony at New Smyrna, King's Road intersects Palencia Club ...

City of San Carlos Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to the lasting memory of those from the City of San Carlos and San Carlos High School who gave their lives while serving with the Armed Forces of the United States of America during the Vietnam War and in ...

First Baptist Church

The Reverend Thomas Z.R. Jones, a traveling missionary, began visiting the Marshall area in 1838. On January 16, 1840, he helped organize the First Baptist Church of Marshall with eight members. The group erected this church in 1850-51. They enlarged ...

Phillips Veterans Memorial

Honor the dead by

serving the living.

This memorial is

dedicated to

all members of the

armed forces

who served their

country honorably

in peace and in war.

May their shadows

always fall in

peaceful surroundings.

1995

Marker is on South Lake Avenue (State Highway 13) north of Walnut Street, on the right ...

Bartlett Garcia

Continental Survey Point

On April 24, 1851, John Russell Bartlett for the United States and Pedro Garcia-Conde for the Republic of Mexico, erected near here a monument designating 32° 22’ north latitude on the Rio Grande as the initial point for ...