"Your Fate is Decided"

Both the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Treaty of New Echota aimed to accomplish removal through voluntary emigration. Such efforts largely failed and by 1838 only about 2,000 Cherokee affected by the treaty had moved west. For those ...

"To Learn and not Forget"

"The Trail of Tears was a tragedy for a progressive and independent people whose population was markedly decreased as a result of the hardships associated with lengthy confinements and a lengthy arduous journey. The forced Removal left an indelible impression ...

County Seat Almost Moved

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Riding the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Lincoln pleaded cases in Livingston County’s first courthouse located on this site. But these events almost did not come to pass. The town proprietors had promised a courthouse, which two years later ...

Town of Paradise Memorial Trailway

SPRR Milepost 198.2 – Site of the Paradise Rail Yard

The rail yard housed the depot, a water tank, a stockyard, as well as a siding and spur. A motorcar house was located further up the track. The depot was retired ...

The "Short Level" of the Miami and Erie Canal

To the left is the "Short Level" of the Miami and Erie Canal. The canal extension from Dayton to Toledo was completed in 1837. Linking the Great Lakes to the Ohio River. Travel took only five days to Toledo and ...

The Camden Oak

circa 1790

As a mere sapling, I witnessed the rebirth of Camden after the devastations of the American Revolution. The British had occupied our town as a supply post in June 1780. When they evacuated eleven months later, they left it ...

William Washington's Ride

Lt. Col. Washington led his Calvary around the east side of the battlefield, then rode into the British rear at the base of Hobkirk’s Hill. There he found a large number of stragglers, wounded men, doctors, and other noncombatants.

Washington ...

Old Paradise Depot

Constructed in 1903, this depot is one of three maintained along the Butte County Railroad, a 31 mile line from Chico to Stirling City, completed by Diamond Match Co. in 1904. The railroad was later acquired by Southern Pacific and ...

World War II Veterans Memorial Bench

Dedicated to All Veterans

Lest we forget their generation

Honoring the men and women

who have served

But let us be glad that

such heroes have lived

and mourn those who gave

the ultimate sacrifice

“Battle of the Bulge”

800,000 soldiers fought, 12,000 were killed

62,000 were wounded, captured or ...

The Wilton E. Hall Bridge

Named in honor of

Wilton E. Hall

Publisher of

The Anderson Independent

and

Daily Mail

For his dedicated service

to Anderson County

and South Carolina

Marker is on Interstate 85 south of South Carolina Highway 187.

Courtesy hmdb.org