Cradle of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was inaugurated as president of the CSA provisional government on the State Capitol portico on Feb. 18, 1861.

On Mar. 4, the first national flag of the Confederacy was hoisted over the Capitol itself. While government ...

Fort Buhlow and Fort Randolph

Fort Buhlow and Fort Randolph were earthwork/moat fortifications constructed beginning October 1864 by Confederate forces anticipating a repetition of Union Gen. Nathaniel Banks' Summer 1864 Red River Expedition.

Construction, completed March 1865, was under the command of Capt. C.M. Randolph ...

Birthplace of Mary McLeod Bethune

This noted humanitarian and educator was born five miles north of Mayesville, S.C., on July 10, 1875. She was one of the first pupils of the Mayesville Mission School, located fifty yards west of this marker, where she later served ...

Cambell's Covered Bridge

This bridge, built in 1909, is the last extant covered bridge in S.C. Built by Charles Irwin Willis (1878-1966), it was named for Alexander Lafayette Campbell (1836-1920), who owned and operated a grist mill here for many years.

Measuring 35 ...

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president, was born in Raleigh but moved to Tennessee at age sixteen.

Record of Johnson's early life is anecdotal at best, as the poverty his family endured precluded written records. It is known, however, that Johnson ...

The Arsenal Crisis

The Civil War could have begun at this U.S. arsenal. As other states seceded, rumors that reinforcements were heading for the arsenal led around 1,000 militia from south and west Arkansas to demand the surrender of the garrison.

On February 12, ...

Finley-Cartwright Home

Finley Cartwright bought this 1918 Tudor Revival Style house from the Cowan Family in 1920. His father formed one of Oceola's earliest stores in 1879, offering sporting goods, household items, and plantation supplies.

By World War II, N.G. Cartwright and Sons ...

Wagon Road

Around these gumbo buttes and across these ridges and valleys, an old road winded its way between Fort Abraham Lincoln on the Missouri River in Dakota Territory and Fort Keogh on the Yellowstone River in Montana.

Although the Indians blazed ...

Bower Hill

Site of Gen. John Neville's mansion, burned to the ground by insurgents during a major escalation of violence in the Whiskey Rebellion, July 16-17, 1794.

Gen. Neville was Inspector of Revenue under President Washington. In the two-day battle, Neville with ...

Lee's Retreat

Near here General Robert E. Lee, moving south toward Danville, in the afternoon of April 5, 1865 found the road blocked by General Phillip Henry Sheridan.

He then turned westward by way of Amelia Springs, hoping to reach the South ...