Los Portales

Local farmer, rancher, and landowner Gregorio Nacenseno Garcia constructed this building as his family residence about 1855. Built in the territorial style, it features milled wood detailing. Because of its distinctive inset gallery (portals), it became known as Los Portales. ...

Ninth Massachusetts Battery

Ninth Mass. Battery

Capt. Bigelow

July 3d and 4th, 1863.

Two guns

Lieutenant Milton Comdg.

Only officer and guns

effective after engagement

on Trostle's farm, July 2nd, 1863

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

San Elizario

San Elizario was established in 1789 on the former site of Hacienda de Los Tiburcios as a Spanish Colonial Fort known as the Presidio of San Elceario. The Presidio was moved from its former location (approx. 37 mi.s) in response ...

Battery F Fifth U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery F Fifth U.S. Artillery

Six 10 pounder Parrotts

Lieut. Leonard Martin Commanding

July 2 Arrived on the afternoon with the Corps and held in reserve.

July 3 Brought up to Ziegler's Grove in rear ...

Hesperian College 1861-1896

1888 Site (Later Woodland High School)

Here bounded by Marshall, First, Hays and College Streets, Hesperian College moved from its downtown location the fall of 1888. The new three-story building, built by Swain and Hudson at a cost of $16,780, had ...

Salt War

The Salt War rose from political conflicts in the El Paso County and from the controversies over control of the salt lakes east of El Paso that for centuries had been a free source of salt for local residents. In ...

Browning's Courthouse

At or near this crossroads stood the J.P. office of Browning’s Militia District No. 572; cited in reports of Federal military operations July, 1864, as Browning’s Court House.

July 18. Logan’s 15th A.C., enroute from Roswell to Decatur, detoured via Browning’s ...

Decatur and The Civil War in North Alabama

“A Hard Nut To Crack”

Decatur had close to 800 residents in 1860, not many more than the 606 persons counted in the 1850 census. Included in the 1860 census were 267 white males, 206 white females, three free blacks including ...

War Comes to the Blackwater

During the first three years of the War Between the States, the Franklin railhead was the terminus of the Blackwater - Chowan corridor. The Confederate commissary used this route to deliver the millions of pounds of goods from eastern North ...

Garrard's & Lightburn's to Stone Mountain

The principal object of the wide swing of Federal forces S.E. from Roswell, where they crossed the Chattahoochee, was to cut the Ga. R.R. at & near Stone Mountain, thereby isolating Atlanta from the east.

Pursuant to plan, Logan’s 15th ...