Trail to Standing Peachtree and Houston Chapel

This ancient trail led west to the Indian village of Standing Peachtree. It joined the Shallowford Trail near this spot linking it with trade routes to Stone Mountain. Later becoming a road it was among the first authorized when DeKalb ...

Hood’s Middle Tennessee Campaign and The Battle for Decatur

“A Hard Nut To Crack”

Following the fall of Atlanta on September 2, 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood, Commander of the Army of Tennessee, began a series of maneuvers against the Union line of supply running from Atlanta through Northwest ...

Site: Judge James Paden House: Gen. J.D. Cox’s H’dq’rs

The Federal 23d A.C., Army of the Ohio, reached this vicinity via Old Shallow Ford Rd. (Clairmont) & N. Decatur Rd., evening of July 19, 1864. This was the N.E. sector of Sherman’s approach to Atlanta. Cox’s (3d) div. bivouacked ...

Printz's (Old Swedes) Mill

The first European water-powered mill in what is now Pa. was built here c. 1645 by New Sweden governor, Johann Printz. New Sweden Colony was established in 1638 and existed until 1655, when the Dutch, and later, William Penn claimed ...

John Moore’s Tavern

1804 – 1817

Marker is on Lawrenceville Road (Main Street) (U.S. 206) 0 miles from Gordon Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

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First Town Hall

1931 – 1944

Joseph Scudder House c. 1779

Marker is on Lawrenceville Road (Main Street) (U.S. 206) 0.2 miles north of Gordon Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

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Presbyterian Home For Children

Synod Of Alabama

Originally conceived 1864 as a home for children of Confederate dead by Synod in session at Selma.

Opened at Tuskegee 1868 - relocated in Talladega 1891.

A haven for dependent youth of Alabama providing training, education, and worship in a ...

Lawrence House, 1840

Home of the wheelwright and site of the wheelwright shop.

Harvey Brearley’s store 1837

Marker is on Lawrenceville Road (Main Street) (U.S. 206) ¼ mile north of Gordon Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

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Rio Vista Farm

English Translation:

El Paso County's second poor farm, known as the El Paso Poor Farm, was established here in 1915. John O'Shea, a wealthy farmer and businessman whose farm was nearby, assumed operation of the farm. His wife, Agnes O'Shea, was ...

Martin County Honor Roll

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In Memory of those who made the Supreme Sacrifice for their Country

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(Row One) - - Clarence H. Corbin • Benjamin H. Abner • ...