Mt Jackson General Hospital

Shenandoah at War

In September 1861, the Confederate Medical Department built a large general hospital on this site because Mt. Jackson was the western terminus of the Manassas Gap Railroad, which provided access to northern Virginia battlefields. Dr. Andrew Russell Meem, ...

Lord Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham

The City and County

of Effingham

erect and dedicate

this monument to the

memory of

Lord Thomas Howard

Earl of Effingham

who with courage and loyalty

to his principles

of freedom and justice

resigned his commission as

deputy marshal of

His Majesty George III

of England

rather than draw his sword

against the American Colonies

in ...

Yates Post No. 88 W.R.C.

In memory of

Womans Relief Corps

Auxiliary of Yates Post

No. 88

Marker is on Jefferson Avenue west of 3rd Street (U.S. 45), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Effingham County Courthouse

1872

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on Jefferson Avenue east of 4th Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Dr. Charles M. Wright House

Built in 1889

has been entered in the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

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

Courtesy hmdb.org

Catherine Cougar

In Memory of Catherine Cougar

Pioneer wife and mother. Born in New Jersey 1732. Captured by Indians 1744, in Berks Co. PA and for five years held a captive at and near this place. Sold to French Canadian traders she served ...

Baird’s Div., 14th A.C.

Aug. 30, 1864. Davis’ 14th A. C. [US], having moved from Red Oak to Shoal Creek Ch., was divided into 2 columns when marching therefrom to the Fayetteville Rd. (Highway 139). Morgan’s & Carlin’s divs. went S. E. by a ...

Pioneer Bowery

A bowery was built near here in August 1904 for the celebration of the long-awaited arrival of water to the Hurricane Bench and to name this new town. After twelve years of back-breaking work, the Virgin River water, carried seven ...

Convict Camp and Wagon Road

In 1915 prisoners from the Utah State Prison camped here among these very rocks. They were detailed to build a wagon road up the fault, directly east from here. Remnants of the road can still bee seen with its lava ...

Virginia "Jennie" Gilmer

Out of Whose Vision, Leadership and Love to Humanity was Born a New Hospital

Virginia "Jennie" Gilmer is widely recognized as the founder of Anderson's first hospital, which over the years evolved into Anmed Health, the largest private not-for-profit health system ...