Hodge's Bend Cemetery

A veteran of "Swamp Fox" Francis Marion's South Carolina brigade during the American Revolution,

Alexander Hodge (b. 1760) brought his family to Texas in 1825. Hodge was prominent among

the "Old Three Hundred" settlers; his sons fought in the Texas ...

In The Early Days

the Town Square was a scrubby area strewn with rocks and sage-brush. Often, one would see elk bunched up with the town cows grazing in the square.In 1932, as part of a nation-wide movement to honor his 200th birthday, the ...

Fond du Lac County Veterans Memorial

Fond du Lac County

Rolling Meadows

Golf Course

Dedicated to All

War Veterans of

Fond du Lac County

This

Bicentennial Year

1976

A Time Capsule

Containing Historical

Information Sealed

Herein – To Be

Opened in the Year

2076

Marker can be reached from West Rolling Meadows Drive 0.1 miles east of South Military Road.

Courtesy ...

The West Side Milling District

Minneapolis on the west bank of the river quickly overtook St. Anthony on the east side. A major reason was more efficient use of water power. In 1857 the Minneapolis Mill Company started to build a canal along South First ...

Bloody Brook Stone Slab

Grave

of

Capt. Lathrop

and

Men Slain

by the

Indians

1675

Marker is on North Main Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Olin D. Johnston Memorial Boulevard

Named in honor

of a distinguished South Carolinian

in recognition of his

contributions

to the life and welfare

of this state and its citizens

Member, House of Representatives

1923-1924 Anderson County

1927-1930 Spartanburg County

Governor

1935-1939 1943-1945

United States Senator

1945-1965

He worked tirelessly for

development of the

Savannah River Basin

Erected in 1985, the 50th ...

Birthplace of "Old Rugged Cross"

"The Old Rugged Cross," one of the world's best-loved hymns, was composed here in 1912 by the Rev. George Bennard (1873-1958). The son of an Ohio coal miner, Bennard was a lifelong servant of God, chiefly in the Methodist ministry. ...

Abandonment of Ft. Cumberland

Fort Cumberland was garrisoned from 1754 to 1765. During this period, there was bickering between Maryland and Virginia as to how the fort should be maintained and whose control it was under.

In early 1756, Colonel Washington favored a small garrison ...

Kittiewan and Doctor Rickman

Two miles south is Kittiewan, mid-eighteenth century manor house. Here lived Doctor William Rickman. From 1776 to 1780 he was director and Chief Physician of the Continental Hospitals of Virginia.

Marker is at the intersection of John Tyler Memorial Highway (State ...

John Muir at Cedar Key

John Muir, noted naturalist and conservation leader, spent several months in Florida in 1867. He arrived at Cedar Key in October, seven weeks after setting out from Indiana on a "thousand-mile walk to the Gulf." Muir's journal account of his ...