The Old Corner Bookstore

Thomas Crease built this structure as his apothecary and residence shortly after the great fire of 1711 destroyed Anne Hutchinson’s house on this site. Timothy Carter opened the Old Corner Bookstore here in 1829. Between 1845 and 1865, the booksellers ...

The Gazebos of Addison

1965 • 1974 • 2000

Addison’s Village Green, a popular site for concerts and other events, has seem three different gazebos constructed at this site.

The first, dedicated in 1965, was built in Rome, Italy in 1873 and then brought to Addison ...

Hampton Heights Historic District

Located one block west, this historic district was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 because of its historical and architectural significance as an example of an intact early twentieth-century neighborhood. A number of popular architectural styles ...

City of Donalsonville

According to a map "Plan of Donalson" dated April 1889, the town was laid out by John Earnest Donalson. On December 8, 1897, a charter, signed by Governor William Yates Atkinson, was granted incorporating the town of Donalsonville. Officers appointed ...

Federal Artillery Position

August 29 & 30, 1862

Federal Artillery Position

A succession of Union artillery batteries

occupied this ridge throughout

August 29 and 30, 1862.

August 29

Company I, 1st Ohio Light Artillery

Capt. Hubert Dilger (9-11 a.m.)

2nd Battery, New York Light Artillery

Lt. Theodore Blume (11 a.m. - 1 ...

200th Anniversary of the United States

1776 1976

In memory of the

200th Anniversary of the

United States as an

Independent Nation

and American Patriots

who fought for the freedoms

we now enjoy

Erected by the Towns of

Graniteville, Vaucluse and

Warrenville

July 4th 1976

Marker is on Marshall Street near Canal Street, on the right when ...

Albergotti Playground

Named in honor of

Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Albergotti, Sr.

for their sustaining interest in public

recreation for children.

Their generous financial contribution

made possible the establishment of the

first city playground near this site.

1922.

Dedicated to the Youth of Orangeburg

Marker is on Riverside Dr SW, ...

Ellison Durant Smith

August 1, 1864 - November 17, 1944

Known nationally as "Cotton Ed" and active in 1905 in forming the Southern Cotton Association, Ellison DuRant Smith was elected to the U.S.Senate in 1908 and served until his death in 1944, having been ...

Winchester's Camp No. 3/Fort Starvation / The Old Kentucky Buria

[Front Text] : "Winchester's Camp No. 3/Fort Starvation"

Camp No. 3 was located about six miles below Fort Winchester on the north side of the Maumee River. Militiamen from Kentucky, part of the forces led by War of 1812 Brig. Gen. ...

The Burning of Darien

On June 11, 1863 the seaport of Darien was vandalized and burned by Federal forces stationed on nearby St. Simons Island. The town was largely deserted, most of its 500 residents having sough refuge inland. Lost were public buildings, churches, ...