Sixth Maryland Infantry Monument

The Sixth Maryland Infantry attacked over this ground in the pre-dawn hours of April 2, 1865. A portion of the regiment, led by Major Clifton K. Prentiss, poured over the Confederate works here, suffering numerous casualties in the process, including ...

Hermon and Margaret L. Aiken

New Hampshire native Hermon (Herman) Aiken worked in Illinois and Tennessee before moving to New Orleans. There, he served as a ship’s captain taking supplies to Galveston in support of the Texas Revolution. He lived in Texas by 1840. In ...

Capt. Milton Wesley Damron

Milton Wesley Damron (1825-1887), an early settler and Salado public servant, was born in Tennessee and came to Texas as part of the Mercer Colony. He arrived in the 1840s and shortly afterwards married Sarah Pennington. When original settlement plans ...

Dr. Welborn Barton and Louisa Adeline Barton

A graduate of the medical department of Kentucky's Transylvania University, South Carolina native Dr. Wellborn Barton (1821-1883) came to Texas in the late 1840s. After two years of practicing medicine in Bastrop County, he returned to South Carolina to wed ...

Salado United Methodist Church

In 1854, the Rev. Thomas Gilmore, a Methodist circuit rider, led a revival at Pecan Grove on the north side of Salado Creek. He organized a Methodist church and a Union Sunday school in a small frame building. During the ...

Intersection of Carolina West Florida, and Savannah Lower Creek

Traditional Indian village site and burial grounds.

Early white settlement and haven for refugee families in 1812 Indian alarms.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 80 and Balls Ferry Road (Georgia Route 112), on the left when traveling east ...

Alexander's Distillery

On this site in 1861-65, the William R. Alexander Distillery met a wartime need in Texas.

May 28, 1862, Governor Francis R. Lubbock closed all Texas distilleries, to save grain. Army calls for medicinal liquor (for opiate and stimulant purposes) soon ...

43rd Illinois Infantry

Raith's Brigade - McClernand's Division

U.S.

Raith's (3d) Brig., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment occupied this position from 4 P.M., April 6, 1862, until next morning when it advanced under command of Col. Marsh.

Marker is on Pittsburg Landing Road 0.2 ...

Ireland's Third Brigade

Second Division

[Front Side of Marker]

80th New York Infantry

102nd New York Infantry

137th New York Infantry

149th New York Infantry

Ireland's - Third Brigade

Geary's - Second Division

Slocum's - Twelfth Corps

Hooker's Command

11th and 12th Corps

Army of the Potomac

November 25, 1863

[Reverse Side of Marker]

The New York ...

Starkweather's Harried History

The first plan for a sewage system in Madison was adopted in 1885. The system first pumped untreated human waste directly into the lakes.

It wasn't until 1901 that a sewage treatment facility was built. By then Lake Monona and the ...