“Kate Barry”

1½ miles SE is Walnut Grove, home of Margaret Catherine Moore Barry (1752–1823). Local tradition says she was known as “Kate Barry” and acted as a scout for the Patriots before the Battle of Cowpens, Jan. 17, 1781. With her ...

Minnesota’s Roads / Welcome to Minnesota

Minnesota's Roads. "A perfect highway is a thing of beauty and joy forever," enthused a speaker at Minnesota's first "Good Roads" convention in 1893. "It blesses every home by which it passes."

Early in the 1890s, even before the automobile age, ...

St. John’s Church

(Episcopal)

Organized “in the Prairie” south of Greensboro

in 1834 by the Rev. Caleb Ives, pioneer

missionary to the old Southwest.

Admitted to parish status in 1838 by the

Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, Provisional Bishop

of Alabama. First Rector

was the Rev. John Avery, D.D.

Present building designed ...

Georgia Gilmore

February 5, 1920 - March 3, 1990

Georgia Gilmore, cited as a “solid energetic boycott participant and supporter.” Lived in this house during the days of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Once arrested on a bus, Gilmore was ardent in her efforts ...

Battle of Franklin

“Jumping out of bed”

The war seemed far from Franklin when Union forces captured Roanoke Island and the North Carolina Sounds in February 1862. In May, however, when they occupied Norfolk and Suffolk to control both coastal Virginia and North Carolina, ...

Joseph Wheeler

Born on this site Sept. 10, 1836

Lt. Gen. Com. Confederate Cavalry 1865

Maj. Gen. Com. U.S. Cavalry 1898

"His name and fame will live and be loved as long

as noble deeds are honored among men"

Placed by

Annie Wheeler Auxiliary No. 3, U.S.W.V.

Marker ...

Trough Springs

Well known spring in the 1800's where travelers watered horses and livestock before crossing Monte Sano on Big Cove Pike. In late 1863, Captain Lemuel Mead's Partisan Rangers attacked railroads, wagon trains, and forage parties behind enemy lines in North ...

Historic Church

This church was built in 1836 by Beech Island Presbyterian Church, organized in 1827 with the Rev. Nathan H. Hoyt of Vermont as first pastor. His son-in-law the Rev. Edward Axson, was ordained and served here. His daughter, Ellen, wife ...

Harry M. Hallman, Jr.

A Lifetime of Public Service

(Front text)

Born in Greenwood, SC, on July 30, 1934, Harry M.

Hallman, Jr., dedicated much of his adult life to

public service. He was elected Mayor of the Town of

Mount Pleasant in 2000. ...

The Blackwater Line

“That little stream has ... saved us”

To protect Richmond from a Union attack from Suffolk, Confederate authorities fortified the Blackwater River in 1862. You are standing on the Blackwater Line. The intermittent earthworks stretched fifty miles from north of Zuni ...