Pierates Cruze / Pierates Cruze Gardens

Pierates Cruze

The Pierates Cruze property, once part of the Hilliardsville tract, was a private residence and garden. The property changed hands several times before it was purchased and named by the Osgood family in 1928. The Osgoods transformed ...

Cane Ridge Meeting House

Built by Presbyterians, 1791. Here Barton W. Stone began his ministry, 1796. Famous revival attended by pioneers of many faiths, 1801. Springfield Presbytery dissolved and "Christian Church" launched, June 28, 1804.

Marker is at the intersection of Cane Ridge Road (Kentucky ...

Twin Mounds & Parallel Walls

These circular twin mounds were excavated in the late 1800s and contained no human remains. Two shallow ditches extend from these earth mounds. One ditch connects to Randall Run on the north side of Fort Ancient, while the other ...

Old State Fair Grounds

This square is part of the tract where state fairs were held 1856-61, 1869-1903. The buildings, used 1861-65 for Confederate barracks and hospital, as well as nitre and mining bureau in charge of Joseph LeConte and James Woodrow, were burned ...

The Old Village

By 1872, several settlements which had developed along Charleston Harbor, were incorporated as the Town of Mount Pleasant. The earliest hamlet was Greenwich Village (1766), followed by the Hibben Ferry Tract (1770), Mount Pleasant Plantation (1808), Hilliardsville (1847), and Lucasville ...

Reverend Horatio S. Howell

Chaplain

In Memoriam.

Rev. Horation S. Howell

Chaplain.

90th Penn'a Vols,

was cruelly shot

dead on these

church steps on

the afternoon of

July 1st 1863.

"He delivereth me

from mine enemies;

Yea, thou liftest me

up above those that

rise up against me."

18th Psalms

48th verse.

"He being dead, yet

speaketh"

Hebrews 11, 4th.

Our tribute

Survivors Association

of the ...

Dorchester Heights

National Historic Site

These heights, commanding the harbor and town of Boston on the south, were seized and fortified by troops of the Continental Army and local militia under General John Thomas on the night of March 4, 1776. By this ...

Old Spanish Cemetery (1800-1825)

This courthouse stands on ground used as a cemetery after Nacgodoches was rebuilt by settlers ordered out of the area when Spain gave up East Texas outposts in 1773.

Antonio Gil Y'Barbo (1729 - 1809) led the displaced persons who ...

Battle of Corydon

On July 9, 1863, along this wooded ridge - - - from the “Laconta” Road extending across the “Mauckport” Pike to the old “New Amsterdam” Road - - - occurred the only Civil War battle in Indiana. It was between ...

Confederate Armory

1861-1864

Erected on land donated to the state

by Vardry McBee for the manufacture

of arms for the South Carolina troops

in the Confederate service.

George W. Morse, superintendent

of the works, invented and manufactured

a breech-loading carbine pronounced

by General Wade Hampton the best

that he had seen.

Marker ...