Noted Indian Settlement

Kennard's Settlement and Cowpens, a major Creek Indian center of Southwest Georgia, was located three and three-fourths miles west of here, on the east side of Kinchafoonee Creek. The site was named for Jack and William Kennard, two Lower Creek ...

Kilpatrick's Raid

After the failed McCook and Stoneman raids, Union Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman mounted one last effort to cut Atlanta's railroads with his cavalry. Just before dark, August 18, 1864, Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick led 4,500 troupers of the 2nd ...

One-Sided Slaughter

Fate of the 5th New York

The 5th N.Y. Infantry thought they had gotten off easy that day. The trees screened them from Confederate artillery fire, and most of the fighting was a mile off to the right near Deep Cut.

Suddenly ...

Fort Ferree - Overland Inn - Indian Spring

Fort Ferree

built by Gen. Harrison's Army, 1812.

Overland Inn

1814 until 1846, on site Elks Lodge.

Indian Spring

used by Indians 1730 to 1843.

Col. Crawford's Army drank at Spring June 4, 1782.

Charles Dickens stopped at Inn and Spring, 1842.

Scioto Trail led past the Indian ...

Ohio in the Civil War / Defending Ohio

The Ohio National Guard and the 37th (Buckeye) Infantry Division

Ohio in the Civil War. With five army camps in Columbus, Capitol Square was a military crossroads from 1861 to 1865. Ohio troops were mustered, paid, and on some occasions garrisoned ...

Northfield Soldiers Memorial

[ south side ]

"That the generations to come

might know them."

Lincoln

Lieut. Horace Hubbard

Co. H. 2. C.H.A.

killed Bat. Winchester Va.

Sept. 19, 1864 Æ. 33.

Hiram T. Cooley

Co. D. 2. C.H.A.

killed Bat. Winchester Va.

Sept. 19, 1864 Æ. ...

Garden Court Street

North End

This street was long noted for its gardens and governors. At No. 4, opposite the site of Governor Hutchinson’s mansion, lived one of Boston’s “Irish governors,” John J. (“Honey Fitz”) Fitzgerald, ward boss, congressman and mayor. His daughter, Rose ...

Site Of The Stand In The Schoolhouse Door / Foster Auditorium, 1

Foster Auditorium is the site of the June 11, 1963, “stand in the schoolhouse door” by Governor George C. Wallace in defiance of a court order requiring The University of Alabama to admit African-American students Vivian Malone and James Hood. ...

Site of United States Courthouse

[In English Translation:]

The United States Courthouse, which stood on this site from 1892 to 1936, was the scene of hundreds of arraignments, hearings and trials during the Mexican Revolution. Some of these legal proceedings involved Magónistas, or radical Liberal Party ...

United States Customhouse

United States Customhouse

Has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the

history of the

United States of America

Marker is at the intersection of Canal Street and Decatur/Magazine Street, on the right when ...