Ulysses S. Grant Died

“Lest we forget”

At this cottage on July 23rd, 1885

Died

Ulysses S. Grant

General U.S.A. 1866 – 1969

President U.S., 1869 – 1877

“Let us have peace”

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Erected by New York Division

Sons of Veterans

• 1916 •

Cohocton Valley

Historic New York

Seneca Indians inhabited this area until 1779 when their towns and cornfields were destroyed by the Sullivan-Clinton expedition, forcing a migration to Niagara.

After the Revolution these lands were included in the Pulteney Purchase of one million ...

The Genesee Valley

Historic New York

The 150 mile-long Genesee River rises in Pennsylvania and flows northward into Lake Ontario. Though relatively a small stream, except in flood stages, it has cut, in its middle portion, a deep gorge with walls rising 600 ...

First Baptist Church of Alpharetta

circa 1905

In 1903, a group of women who met weekly for prayer and Bible study began collecting offerings. From those collections, the women purchased a sixty by one hundred foot lot and began construction of the First Baptist Church. The ...

Suber's Mill

Four generations of the Suber family have owned and operated a waterpowered grist mill on Princess Creek, a branch of the Enoree River, since shortly after the Civil War. James A. Suber (1826-1923) ran a sawmill and whiskey still a ...

Cunningham Memorial Park

In 1798, on a nearby site, the first gristmill in this area was built by Valentine and Margaret Cunningham. Later another gristmill was established here. Soon a community was established. The town, first known as Pine Grove, was incorporated as ...

Buford Pusser Memorial Park

"In Memory of a Man Who Walked Tall"

Personal History

Buford Hayes Pusser was born near Finger, Tennessee on December 12, 1937. His early education consisted of elementary schools in this area and graduation from Adamsville High School in 1956. About a ...

The Seashore Trolley Museum

The founding of the Seashore Trolley Museum on this site in July, 1939, established the private railway preservation movement in the United States. Six young men under the subsequent 50 year leadership of Theodore F. Santarelli de Brasch acquired a ...

Billy Green Monument

[Text on West Side of Monument]:

In Memory Of

Billy Green

"The Scout"

Who led British troops

in surprise night

attack winning decisive

Battle of Stoney Creek.

Born Feb. 4, 1794

Died Mar. 15, 1877

[Text on North Side of Monument]:

In Memory Of

Isaac Corman

Who gave the password

to Billy Green who ...

Their Fame Liveth

Canada Remembers

Lieutenant Samuel Hooker,

Sergeant Joseph Hunt, Pri-

vates James Daig, Thomas

Fearnsides, Richard Hugill,

George Longley, Laurence

Meade, John Pegler, John Smith,

and John Wale of the First

Battalion of the Eighth

(King's) Regiment of Foot; and

Sergeant ...