Fort Benning - Station Hospital / National Infantry Museum

Side 1: Fort Benning - Station Hospital

In 1923 the U.S. Congress appropriated funds for the erection of a hospital at Fort Benning. The hospital complex, consisting of ten buildings, was opened in 1925. During World War Two as many as ...

Ben Hulse Highway

Dedicated for Public Use

This highway parallels the old Indian trail, still visible from here, connecting the Imperial and Palo Verde Valleys.

The grateful people of Imperial County honor the memory of our beloved Senator Ben Hulse, who worked untiringly for the ...

29th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry

29th Regiment

Pennsylvania Infantry

Reached this point at 6 P.M.

Battle of Missionary Ridge

November 25, 1863

Marker is at the intersection of South Crest Road and East View Drive, on the right when traveling south on South Crest Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Florence Armory

The North Carolina Armory at Florence, was located 1/4 east. Commanded by Captain Z.S. Coffin, the armory converted hunting rifles into military arms, repaired broken guns, and assembled new guns between 1862 and 1865. On April 11, 1865, a detachment ...

Eleventh Michigan Infantry

Eleventh Michigan

Infantry

Nov. 25, 1863

Major B.G. Bennett

Commanding was killed on the

Slope below this position.

Marker is on South Crest Road north of East View Drive, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lincoln in Beardstown

Abraham Lincoln first saw Beardstown in the Spring of 1831 as he, two friends, and Denton Offutt steered Offutt's flatboat laden with merchandise on their way to New Orleans. He returned in 1832, first in March to help get the ...

Captain Abraham Lincoln

Rejecting a treaty, Black Hawk, a leader of the Sauk and Fox, led his hungry people back into Illinois from Iowa in early 1832, intending to plant corn. Black Hawk also hoped to form an alliance with the Winnebago and ...

Lincoln and Blackhawk

Abraham Lincoln and his men were among the 1,500 or so volunteers who had poured into Beardstown for basic military drills. These men had answered Gen. John Reynolds' call to drive Black Hawk and his people out of Illinois. The ...

SS Gulfamerica

This marker commemorates the attack on the USS Gulfamerica on April 10, 1942, during World War II (1941-1945) by a German U-boat just off the coast of Jacksonville Beach. The Gulfamerica, a merchant marine vessel, was on her maiden voyage ...

Alligator

Originally called Alpata Telophka, or Alligator Town, this site was a Seminole village, ruled by the powerful chief Alligator, an instigator of the Dade Massacre, which began the great Seminole War of 1835. Following the cessation of hostilities, a white ...