March of the Armies

December 3-7, 1862

General Hindman on the Arkansas River planned to drive General Blunt's Federal army out of northwest Arkansas. The Confederate army left Van Buren on December 3. Enroute north, Hindman learned that Blunt had called for help from General ...

March of the Mill Children

100th Anniversary

Princeton, New Jersey

July 1903 – July 2003

Mary Harris “Mother” Joneswas a crusader for workers’ rights. She led several hundred children who worked in the textile mills on a march from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to President Theodore Roosevelt’s home in Oyster ...

The Home of Charles Jones Jenkins, Jr., LL. D.

After rendering valuable aid to his State as a justice of the Georgia Supreme Court (1860-1865). Charles Jones Jenkins was elected Governor in 1865. For defying certain reconstruction measures of Congress and military orders, he was replaced by Gen. Thomas ...

The Salvation Army

Stuart House

The purchase of this property was funded by the G. B. Stuart Charitable Foundation

Mr. Stuart’s ancestor, Samuel Stuart (also known as Stewart), purchased this property September 7, 1778, where he engaged in tavern keeping and for a period of ...

The Common Road of the English Following Old Indian Trail

The colonial road from Charleston to Vicksburg followed the highway at this point. The route, used by Col. Langdon Welch on his expedition to the Mississippi in 1698, was thereafter followed by British traders. Through Taliaferro Co., it followed the ...

The Elms

Side A

The Elms, an inland rice plantation on the headwaters of Goose Creek, was owned by the Izard family for more than 150 years. In 1704 Ralph Izard (d. 1711), member of the Commons House of Assembly, bought a ...

The American Hotel

Built in 1863

Served as – hotel, rooming house, sanitarium and private residence during mining era.

Burned in 1897 fire, rebuilt in 1899.

Marker is at the intersection of Orleans Street and Main Street, on the right when traveling west on Orleans ...

The Chickahominy River & Seven Days' Battles

During the Civil War's Seven Days' Battles from 25 June to 1 July 1862, many engagements occurred along and near the Chickahominy River. Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan led the Army of the Potomac. His goal was to capture ...

The Marshallton Historic District

~circa 1764~

The

Village

of

Marshalton

~Circa~

1764

National Register

Historic District

Marker is on Northbrook Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The American Legion

1919

Side A

The American Legion, an organization of U.S. War Veterans was founded in Paris, France, March 15~17, 1919 by delegates from combat and service units of the American Expeditionary Force assembled in response to a call by a committee headed ...