The Wyandot

Les Hurons de Detroit

This area was once the home of the Wyandot, remnants of the Huron, Neutrals, and Petuns who were dispersed by the Iroquois in the 1640's. Some eventually reunited and settled along the Detroit River, where they ...

The Assassination Of Rep. Alfred Rush

[Front]

Alfred Rush (d. 1876), a black state representative for two terms during Reconstruction, was assassinated near here, about 1/2 mi. from his home, on May 13, 1876. Rush, who represented what was then Darlington County in the S.C. House ...

Landing Ship Tanks (LST's) Memorial

United States Amphibious Forces

In Remembrance of those who served in the United States Amphibious Forces on board Landing Ship Tanks (LST's).

Marker can be reached from Blue Star Highway 0.4 miles south of Main Street (U.S. 136).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Meditation Rock

Here

Mary Ball Washington prayed for the safet of her son and country during the dark days of the Revolution.

This tablet was presented by

The National Mary Washington

Memorial Association

(Chartered February 22, 1890 - February 22, 1962)

by whose devoted efforts this monument was ...

Henry Timrod

[South side]:

Born in Charleston, S.C.

December 8, 1829,

Died in Columbia, S.C.,

October 6, 1867.

[East side]:

This memorial has been erected with the proceeds of the recent sale of very large editions of the author's poems by the ...

Brigadier General Daniel Stewart

This Stone Marks The Spot Where

Beside His Wife And Children

Repose The Remains Of

Brigadier General

Daniel Stewart

in recognition of whose life

and services

The Congress

of the

United States

has reared a monument in

this cemetery.

He was one of the youthful

Patriots who fought to ...

Grand Army of the Republic Hall

This structure, built in 1822, served as the Methodist Church for nearly 50 years and still retains a portion of the original burial ground at the rear. After the battle, wounded were cared for here by the Catholic Sisters of ...

Confederate Camp Milner

Most Georgia troops for the Confederate Army were mobilized in Griffin. Camp Milner, the Cavalry Camp, was named for Ben Milner, prominent Spalding County man who gave financial aid in equipping companies from his county. Camp Stephens, the Infantry Camp, ...

Roseville Plantation Slave And Freedman's Cemetery / Clarke Ceme

Roseville Plantation Slave And Freedman's Cemetery

This was originally the slave cemetery for Roseville Plantation. Roseville, established about 1771 by the Dewitt family, was later owned by the Brockinton, Bacot, and Clarke families from the 1820s through the Civil War. ...

Forest Industry in British Columbia

L’Industrie Forestiere en Colombie-Britannique

Harvesting of the forest has long been an important aspect of life on the Pacific Coast. The native people were the first to utilize this valuable resource in the construction of dwellings, canoes, and implements. In the ...