Great Indian Warrior Trading Path

(The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road)

The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/Warrior Paths. Indian treaties among the Governors of NY, ...

Peyton Anderson

Payton Anderson of the Rappahannock Cavalry was severely wounded on picket duty 122 ft. N.W. of this spot May 27, 1861.

The first soldier of the South to shed his blood for the Confederacy.

Marker is on Fairfax Boulevard (Lee Highway) ...

Battle of Davis Bridge

October 5, 1862

Here a force of three brigades under Major General E.O.C. Ord, USA, enroute from Bolivar to Corinth, seized high ground to the east and turned aside the Confederate Army of W. Tennessee, retiring to Holly Springs after its ...

North Carolina Confederate Hospital

Site of the

Confederate Hospital

for soldiers from

North Carolina

1861-1865

Marker is at the intersection of Brown Street and Perry Street, on the right when traveling west on Brown Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Oneida Baptist Institute

The land for what became Oneida Baptist Institute was donated by Martha Coldiron Hogg and S.P. Hogg in September 1899. The school was founded by James Anderson Burns, December 20, 1899, as Mamre Baptist College to meet the social, educational, ...

First United Brethren in Christ Church in Kansas

A First Kansas Church

Built by Rev. W. A. Cardwell

see other side

The first church of the United Brethren in Christ, in Kansas, now Evangelical United Brethren, was built by Rew. W. A. Cardwell, in 1856, about 100 ft. southwest of this ...

Ladies Confederate Hospital

Original building

of the

Ladies Confederate

Hospital

1862—1865

Marker is at the intersection of Bollingbrook Street and 3rd Street, on the right when traveling west on Bollingbrook Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Kendall Institute

(Front text)

Kendall Institute, founded on this site in 1891, was one of the first black schools in Sumter. It was funded by the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The institute was named for ...

Augustin de Langlade

On the river shore

Block 3 Astor directly west of this

marker stood about the year 1745 the

home and trading house of

Augustin de Langlade

and his distinguished son Charles,

the first permanent settlers of Wisconsin.

Charles Michel de Langlade

"Bravest of the Brave"

led his Indian ...

Shawnee County World War Memorial

1914 - 1918

Dedicated to those from

Shawnee County

who served their country in

the World War, and to the

memory of these who "Gave the

last full measure of devotion"

[Roll of Honored Dead]

November 11, 1923

Marker is on SW Munn Memorial Drive, on the right when ...