Snake Ridge Lookout Tower

Reconstructed on this site, this lookout tower once stood off S.R. 278 southwest of Nelsonville in Athens County. Known as the Snake Ridge Lookout Tower this tower was originally built in 1939.

Many of the lookout towers were built by the ...

Rear Admiral Arthur Clark

Rear Admiral Arthur Clark served two tours as in-country military advisor to South Vietnam military and with USMAV and was one of the last to leave in 1973. He went on to serve in many leadership roles which transformed the ...

Historic Light Standard

Historic Site

This light standard was placed at the entrance to the Las Vegas Union Pacific Railroad Station in 1937. The Depot was removed in 1970 to make way for the Union Plaza Hotel. Mr. Frank Scott, Chairman of The Board ...

Old Revolutionary Fort

In December 1776 General Roche De Fernoy and General William Alexander (Lord Stirling) had their headquarters here at a "hip-roof" house known as The Old Fort. Before the Battle of Trenton, Coryell's Ferry became a military camp. Stockade entrenchments were ...

Rear Admiral William W. Outerbridge

Middleport native William Outerbridge (1906-1986) initiated the first shots of American involvement in World War II at 6:37 a.m. prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Outerbridge was commander of the destroyer USS Ward, which ...

Edmund Winston Pettus House Site

Edmund Winston Pettus, lawyer, General C.S.A., U.S. Senator, was born Limestone County, Alabama, 1821.

Admitted to bar, 1842.

Moved to Cahaba, 1858.

Major, C.S.A., 1861.

Brigadier General, 1863.

U.S. Senator, 1897-1907.

Resided here from 1866 until death, 1907.

When in Senate, with ...

Middleport Medal of Honor Recipients

Edward A. Bennett, PFC, Co. B., 358th. Inf. Regt., 90th Inf. Div. Honored for bravery during combat in Germany, Feb., 1945. Award presented by President Truman in October. Bennett retired from service with the rank of Major on Feb. 1, ...

The Madden Branch Massacre: Anti-Confederate activity in North G

North of here on Madden Branch in Polk County, Tennessee, on November 29, 1864, during the American Civil War, six Georgians trying to enlist in the U.S. Army -- Thomas Bell, Harvey Brewster, James T. Hughes, James B. Nelson, Elijah ...

Green Swamp Methodist Church

Site of First Methodist Church in Vicinity of Sumter

Influenced by Bishop Francis Asbury, Richard Bradford gave land and with others built a wooden chapel in 1787, first called Bradford's Meeting House. Here Santee circuit riders preached until 1827 when church ...

Rio Grande Theatre

1926

Has been placed on the

National Register of

Historic Buildings

By the

United States Department

Of the Interior

Marker is on North Downtown Mall, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org