Howard's March to Jonesboro

Aug. 1864. Howard’s Army of the Tenn. [US], having abandoned siege operations on the W. side of Atlanta, moved S. in a flanking march to cut the West Point R.R. at & below Shadnor Ch. On the 30th, the army ...

Captain James Lawrence & Lieutenant Augustus C. Ludlow

In memory of

Captain James Lawrence

of the United States Navy,

Who fell on the 1st day of June 1813, in the 32nd year of his age, in the action between the frigates Chesapeake and Shannon. He was distinguished on ...

Jackson Springs

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General Andrew Jackson, leading his troops to Florida in 1818 to fight the Seminole Indians, stopped here for nearly two weeks to rest his army during their long march. Since that time, this has been called Jackson Springs to ...

Historic Site in Journalism

The Chillicothe Gazette, published since 1800, is the oldest newspaper west of the Allegheny Mountains and the oldest business establishment in Ohio. The newspaper played an important part in American history, specifically through its part in opening the Northwest Territory, ...

William Johnson

William Johnson

Built a fort of huge logs at this place about 1757 to protect his family and neighbors from attack by the Indians

Erected by his Descendants

1956

Marker is at the intersection of Tanglewood Park Road and River Birch Creek, on the ...

John and Polly Garrett House

It took John and Polly Garrett five years to build this house. During that five year period, they lived in the small log home to your right. The Garrett's moved into this house in 1835. Four years later, Polly gave ...

J.G. Arends

Native German, pioneer teacher and minister, ordained 1775, first president of the N.C. Lutheran Synod, 1803. Grave a few yds. east.

Marker is on South Aspen Street south of Church Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Judges Cave

Judges Cave

Here May Fifteenth 1661 and for some weeks thereafter Edward Whalley and his son-in-law William Goffe, members of the Parliament General, officers in the army of the Commonwealth and signers of the death warrant of King Charles First, found ...

Janssen Place Historic District

Constructed 1897 - 1917

Originally intended as a planned, residential area, Janssen Place was conceived and developed by Arthur E. Stilwell, a railroad magnate and urban planner. Designed in 1897 and patterned after Portland and Westmoreland Places in St. Louis, ...

Historic El Cajon Hall

? 1894 ?

This building has also served as newspaper office, a bank, telephone company, a lodge, Farmers Institute and a meat market.

Purchased by the Weinstock family and served as an appliance and radio store

1932

Purchased & restored by Ross Nicholson

2002

Marker is ...