Gist's Plantation

Christopher Gist, the Ohio Company surveyor who went to Fort LeBoeuf with Washington, settled here in 1753. In 1754, Washington halted his campaign here and retreated to Fort Necessity. Pursuing French destroyed the plantation.

Marker is on University Drive (U.S. 119) ...

Michie Stadium

In memory of

Dennis Mahan Michie

U.S.M.A. 1982

Born at West Point, N.Y.

April 10, 1870

Killed action at

San Juan, Cuba, July 1, 1898.

In 1890 he organized and

captained the first

football team of the

United States Military

Thrasherville

Where Atlanta Began

In 1839 “Cousin John” Thrasher built a settlement called Thrasherville at this then forested site near the peg marking the planned terminus of the Western & Atlantic R. R. This railroad was later built by the State of ...

Abbott

In 1881, on land owned by G.M. Dodge, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (Katy) Railroad built a line through a new town named for Joseph Abbott, a Hill County resident, lawyer and U.S. Congressman. Winston W. Treadwell soon opened a ...

French's Beach

Eunice & Hezekiah French came here from Billerica, Massachusetts in 1799 built a log cabin nearby and ten children were born there

Marker is at the intersection of Atlantic Highway (U.S. 1) and Maine Route 173, on the right when traveling ...

Jimmie Rodgers and The Blues

Jimmie Rodgers (1897 – 1933) is widely known as the "father of country music," but blues was a prominent element

of his music. The influence of his famous "blue yodels" can be heard in the music of Mississippi blues artists

"All Aboard"

Hub, Home, Heart

Union Station, across First Street, was the world’s largest railroad terminal when it opened in 1907. Its construction took five years and displaced hundreds of small houses and businesses. Architect Daniel Burnham’s Beaux-Arts masterpiece, with its soaring, elegant ...

Mount Tabor United Methodist Church Cemetery

This cemetery was established August 20, 1857, by George C. and Purnelea Crawford. In an earnest desire to promote God’s Kingdom on Earth, they conveyed this site to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and their successors.

Listed in ...

Harpersville Garden of Memories

The oldest known grave is that of Oprah Moore (1772-1823), consort to Rev. (Doctor) Lemuel Moore. This is the final resting place of American Revolutionary War Patriot William Jennings (1761-1840) and the professed burial site of the Last Creek Indian ...

Annie Oakley

Side A

Phoebe Ann Mosey, also known as Annie Oakley, was born six miles northeast of here in what was then Woodland, later renamed Willowdell. Born in 1860 she was the sixth daughter born to Jacob and Susan Mosey. After the ...