Alfred Blalock, M.D.

1899-1964

World famous surgeon, teacher and research scientist was born in Culloden, Georgia April 5, 1899 and educated at Georgia Military College, the University of Georgia and Johns Hopkins Medical School. He completed his surgical training at Vanderbilt University where he ...

Head of Christiana Presbyterian Church

The first Presbyterian services in this area were conducted by Rev. John Wilson in 1706. Then pastor of New Castle Presbyterian Church, Rev. Wilson came every other Sunday to minister to the many residents of this area who had immigrated ...

Chalk Bluff in the Civil War

Skirmish of May 15, 1862

Chalk Bluff occupied a strategic position during the Civil War. Its cliffs commanded a vital river crossing on the only major road from Missouri into the Crowley's Ridge country. Provisions were collected here and shipped downstream ...

Third Brigade

First Division - Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps First Division

Third Brigade

Brig. Gen. David A. Russell

6th. Maine, 49th. (4 Cos.) 119th. Pennsylvania

5th. Wisconsin Infantry

July 2 Arrived about 4 p.m. from Manchester MD and moved to the east slope of the ...

Edmund Jenkins / Ocean Grove Cemetery

Edmund Jenkins

Edmund Jenkins, a veteran of World War I, was the first elected black Town Marshal in Mount Pleasant, and served the Town from 1920-1927. He died December 26, 1930. His gravestone is directly to the left of ...

Meeteer House

In the late 18th century a paper mill was established by Thomas Meeteer on the banks of nearby White Clay Creek. In later years Thomas was succeeded in business by his sons Samuel and William. the property on which this ...

Preserving the Palisades

Through the 1890s, quarries blasted the Palisades for stone to make gravel and concrete. The largest of these, Carpenter Brothers’ quarry, was just south of here (background photograph and B). Many thousands of tons of broken rock were taken from ...

Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor was born Spangler Arlington Brugh in Filley on August 5, 1911 and was raised in Beatrice. He appeared in 80 films from the 1930’s to the 1960’s and hosted the television series “Death Valley Days” in the 1960’s. ...

Grave Of General Tristram Thomas / Saw Mill Baptist Church

Grave of General Tristram Thomas

In Saw Mill Church cemetery is the grave of Tristram Thomas, major of militia during the Revolution. At Hunt's Bluff, ten miles south, a band of Patriots under his command seized a British flotilla in ...

Pegues Place / Revolutionary Cartel

Pegues Place

About 1760, French Huguenot immigrant Claudius Pegues settled in this area. His home, Pegues Place, is located one mile west of here. A founder and early officer of St. David's Episcopal Church in Cheraw, he was elected in ...