Sir Knight John W. Smith / Daniel D. Vanderslice

Sir Knight John W. Smith

Died in Memphis Tenn. Dec. 18, 1877

Aged 86 years

A Master Mason, Royal Arch

and Knight Templar

62 years a Mason and

first Deputy Grand Master

of the Grand Lodge of Kansas

Erected by the Masonic Fraternity

of Kansas in memory of the

first ...

Shepherd’s Battery

Shepherd’s, one of the oldest batteries in the fort, guarded its western end.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Shepherd’s Battery

Shepherd’s, one of the oldest batteries in the fort, guarded its western end.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Betsy

On this site stood "Old Betsy," Las Vegas' first electric generator, which serviced the power needs of the new town. The generator, operated by the Consolidated Power and Telephone company, supplied electricity from 1906-1916. The company evolved into the Southern ...

Restoration of Shepherd’s Battery

Over the years man and nature destroyed much of Fort Fisher. Restoration of this battery was based on archaeological, historical, and photographic evidence.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Holding the Outer Lines

The remains of the trenches you see here are part of the outer line of defenses that protected Fort Donelson against land attack. This part of the line was initially occupied by Capt. Rice E. Graves' six-gun Kentucky Battery with ...

River Road Sally Port

The River Road sally port was the fort’s main land entrance.

At 3:30 p.m. on January 15, 1865, Union infantry charged into this end of the fort.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road. ...

The Olmstead Place

It’s hard to imagine, but you are about to enter a fertile valley. Named for the Indians who lived here time immemorial, the Kittitas Valley was the destination of many American settlers who came to the Washington Territory in the ...

Lamb Expands the Fort, 1862-1865

Col. William Lamb took command on July 4, 1862. For two years over 1,000 soldiers, slaves, and free blacks worked six days a week.

J.A. McMillan, a soldier at Fort Fisher, wrote: “They everlastingly make us work. … We work nine ...

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

The National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established by Congressional legislation and approved by President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1865. Its purpose was "...to care for him who shall have borne the battle..." as stated in President ...