Site: The Mann House

Some 400 ft. S. on this ridge stood the antebellum farm house of John A. Mann (1828-1904).

It is cited in reports & dispatches of the movement of the 4th A. C. [US] from Red Oak to the Macon R. R. ...

Galveston Artillery Club

By 1840, a year after its incorporation, the city of Galveston was home to approximately 1,200 residents, the entry point for scores of immigrants and a major coastal shipping port. Ongoing tensions between the young Republic of Texas and Mexico ...

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, ...

William Lee Watkins

Meals on Wheels Center

This facility was originally built in 1951 and was the cafeteria for the McCants Middle School. Renovation of the space for Meals on Wheels was completed in 2000 to allow for the expansion of the successful community ...

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 ...