Knoxville Academy

Incorporated 1837 Chartered

Regents 1842-1869 Faced

Military Training Ground 1776

Marker is on Berne Altamont Road (New York Route 156), on the right when traveling south.

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Lookout Valley

You are looking across Lookout Valley and the flat-topped ridges of the Cumberland Plateau. The morning of November 24, Union Gen. Hooker's troops crossed Lookout Creek opposite the present railroad yard in the valley. Then, in a long column, they ...

Site of Bauer Drug

November 1, 1946 - December 1958

and

Bauer Sundries & Veterinary Supplies

January 1959 - October 1969

Proprietor, Frances R. Bauer

Home of Kearney's last soda fountain

In honor of

George J. and Frances R. Bauer

for their civic mindedness and years of

dedication to the Old Town business ...

Attack at Deep Cut

Second Battle of Manassas

Full-throated cheers greeted the order to attack. More than 6,000 Union soldiers under General Fitz John Porter poured across the road into the fields of Lucinda Dogan's farm. As the blue-clad lines traversed the open ground, a ...

Birthplace of Allan Shivers

Governor of Texas (1949-1957)

Born here, in now-razed house, Oct. 5,1907, to Robert and Easter C. Shivers, pioneer East Texas family. As youth, worked at odd jobs to earn own pocket money. Was State Senator 12 years; Lieutenant Governor for two. ...

Poplar Springs Baptist Church

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Established in 1805, Poplar Springs Baptist Church, "Mother Church" of the Tugalo Baptist Assn., began in May of that year. Some of the first members were Joseph Chandler, Thomas Wilkins, John Nail, John Mullins, and James Jackson. John ...

Crown Zellerbach Employee World War II Memorial

In honor of the employees from this division who gave their lives while serving in the armed forces during World War II.

Curtin P Barnett • James F Hagensen • Thelma A Rancore • Jimmie Clark Berg • Wayne A Harwood ...

Cincinnatus Citizen-Soldier

VMI and the Citizen – Soldier The Virginia Military Institute program is based on the concept of the citizen - soldier, a man prepared to take his place in civilian life but trained and ready for military leadership in ...

Colonel Claudius Crozet

Born in France Dec. 31, 1789

Died in Virginia Jan. 29, 1864

Soldier Scholar Educator Engineer

Chairman of the first

Board of Visitors V. M. I.

1837 1845

Marker can be reached from N Main Street (U.S. 11), on the left when traveling east.

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Hildreth Party

In Memory of the Hildreth Party

of Prospecting Miners

Thadeus Hildreth

George Hildreth

John Walker

Alexander Carson

Billy Jones

John Walker found gold near here on March 27, 1850, which led to the founding of Columbia

Marker is at the intersection of Columbia Street and Main Street on ...