The Bawdy Side of Town

South Third Street

Fortune Club

The Fortune Club was a famous gambling house and saloon and it was reported to also be home to one of the area’s most talked about Red Light Social Clubs with rooms for rent on the second ...

Confederate Camp

Confederate Infantry Camp Stephens was named for Alexander H. Stephens, vice-president of the Confederacy. Nearly all troops in the Confederate Army from Georgia were mobilized here and at Cavalry Camp Milner, located at the present Griffin Municipal Park. Spalding County ...

Outagamie County World War I Memorial

Spirit of the American Doughboy

Dedicated to the memory of

our comrades who entered the

service of their country

from Outagamie County

and who gave their lives in

the World War

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Presented by

Oney Johnson Post No. 38,

American Legion

November 11, 1934

Restored and rededicated

on November 11, 2006

by the readers ...

Richland Baptist Church Site

Richland Baptist Church, constituted about 1830, was located on land given by Henry Audulph, first settler of Richland. A baptismal pool was built near a spring in the park. Here the Bethel Baptist Assn. was organized Nov. 23, 1833 by ...

Title Building

Designed by William C. Weston and erected in 1902, the Title Building was the second skyscraper built in Birmingham. It was the first building to supply its tenants with electric power with its own power-generating plant and the water supply ...

The Wished For Country

After braving a four month voyage from England, the Maryland colonists first landed on St. Clements Island. It was here that Governor Leonard Calvert took possession "...for Saviour and Sovereigh..." on March 25, 1634. The seeds of Religious Toleration and ...

Petersburg Road

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North Georgia`s oldest road, which crosses the Highway U.S. 378 at this point, was originally an Indian Trail which led to their Trading Post in Augusta , Georgia.

Later, this important trade route was used by pioneer white settlers in transporting ...

St. Clement's Island Lighthouse

"None of the Lighthouses ... are Safe"

On May 19, 1864 Confederates raided St. Clement's Island to destroy the 1851 lighthouse. Capt. John Goldsmith, a county residence who had once owned the island, led the attack, having joined the Confederate army ...

Monroe Family Homestead

The home of the pioneer Monroe family stood here for more than a century. The family matriarch, Nancy Gooch, came across the plains from Missouri as a slave in 1849. She gained her freedom in 1850 when California joined the ...

Sacred Heart Church

Established 1860

In 1859 a small wood framed church was erected on this spot. The following year it was blessed and named St. Louis Church to honor Fr. Luis De Cancer, a Dominican missionary who was martyred on the shores ...