Ox Swamp: The Swamp Fox Earns His Name

On the night of November 7, 1780, Lt. Colonel Banastre Tarleton and his Green Dragoons - together with Harrison’s Provincials, a large unit of Tories from the area between the upper Santee and Wateree Rivers - camped at the plantation ...

Quanassee Town and the Spikebuck Mound

In 1700, the river bottoms surrounding present day Hayesville were home to a thriving Cherokee community called Quanassee. The heart of the village was a townhouse, a combined civic center, council house, and temple that was located atop the mound ...

"We are all the same as dead men"

Conditions in Civil War Helena were horrible. Overcrowding, poor sanitation, contaminated drinking water, and mosquitoes led to typhoid, dysentery, malaria and other diseases. Tents, churches, barns, abandoned houses and business buildings housed thousands of sick soldiers.

Sick Men, Grim Hospitals

Annie Wittenmeyer ...

The Christmas Tree House

The Christmas Tree House at 305 Heard Street was built as the home of the George Loehr family, who introduced to Elberton and the Rest of Georgia their native German practice of celebrating Christmas with a candle-lit tree; and the ...

Birthplace of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873)

The Battle of Chancellorsville

This jumble of bricks and stones tucked deep within Spotsylvania's Wilderness marks the birthplace of Matthew Fontaine Maury, the "Pathfinder of the Seas." All but forgotten now, Maury was a legend during his lifetime. While superintendent of ...

Community of Theon

Attracted to the rich farm land, immigrants from Austria, Bohemia, Germany, Moravia and Silesia came here in the 1880s-90s. This community grew around a cotton gin built about 1883. A Catholic church and school operated at nearby Corn Hill. A ...

The Soldiers and Sailors Monument

Mauch Chunk World War II Honor Roll

Southern face:

To all the Brave Defenders of the Union from the County of Carbon.

Appomattox, 1865.

Northern face:

Wilderness, Hampton Roads, Antietam, Gettysburg

New Orleans, 1815.

Eastern face:

On fame's eternal camping ground their silent tents were spread, and glory ...

Footprints in the Sands of Time

The remarkable crisscrossing pattern on this sandstone was formed by an extinct animal. It crawled across moist, ripple-marked sand at the edge of a shallow tropical ocean, which covered Wisconsin about 520 million years ago during the Cambrian geological period. ...

The Maumee and Western Reserve Road / Turnpike Milestones

Ohio Historical Marker

[Front Side]: "The Maumee and Western Reserve Road"

Sandusky Street (U.S. Highway 20) is the former Maumee and Western Reserve Turnpike. Native American tribes northwest of the Ohio River ceded the right of way for this 46-mile road to ...

Mother Colony House

This house was built in 1857 by Mr. Geo. Hansen the promoter of that little colony of Germans who founded what is now the City of Anaheim, and originally stood on N. Los Angeles St. between Chartres & Cypress Sts.

The ...