The Church of the Purification Locust Grove Academy

In 1790 several Catholic families of English descent from Maryland settled near Locust Grove. They established the first Roman Catholic Church in Georgia and erected a log church in 1792. A priest, Father John LeMoin, was sent to it from ...

The Civil War Memorial Grove

THIS GROVE OF TREES

as saplings, transplanted from southern battlefields was dedicated to the memory of UNION VETERANS of the CIVIL WAR and presented to the State of California

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Hargrove House

Ante-bellum residence of Asbury Hargrove 1809 ~ 1879.

Headquarters of Brig. Gen. Edward M. McCook, July 6 ~ 15, 1864.

McCook’s (1st) div. (Dorr’s & Lamson’s brigades), Elliott’s Cav. Corps (Army of the Cumberland) [US], was posted here to patrol the Chattahoochee ...

The Black Hawk War / Black Hawk's Grove

The Black Hawk War

In April 1832, unhappy about their forced relocation to Iowa and misadvised by tribal chiefs, about 1,000 Sac, Fox and Kickapoo men, women and children followed Sac war leader Black Hawk back to their Illinois home where ...

Gaithersburg Washington Grove Volunteer Fire Department

The completion of the railroad in the 1870's brought increasing prosperity to Gaithersburg. As the town grew so did the need for protection from the ever present dangers of fire. In September of 1892, a committee of volunteers formed the ...

The Metcalf Grove

This grove is given to the State of California for the preservation of these ancient trees by Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H. Metcalf of Rhode Island.

Marker is on Howland Hill Road, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Cocoanut Grove

Erected by

Bay Village

Neighborhood Association

1993

In memory of

the more than 490 people

who died as a

result of the

Cocoanut Grove fire

on November 28 1942

As a result of this terrible

tragedy major changes were

made in the fire codes and

improvements in the treatment

of burn victims not

only in ...

The Grove

In the mid-1600s, John Tyson traveled from the British Isles to Virginia. Over the next 200 years, his descendents migrated to North Carolina and on to Georgia. Alexander, Clement, and Jehu Tyson and their mother Penelope settled this land in ...