Perrin Historic District

Platted in 1873, this district was Lafayette's first planned residential area which conformed to geographic contours. It was developed by James J. Perrin, Margaret Cason Perrin, Edward Asher, and Consider Tinkler. Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1979.

Marker is ...

Confederate Gun Shop

When the states of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee grew short of arms in 1863, Governor Shorter of Alabama and President Jefferson Davis persuaded Major O. O. Nelson of Tuscumbia, Alabama, to organize a company to erect a Gun Shop. ...

Confederate Cemetery

3,000 Confederate dead from every southern state are buried in this cemetery. First established for [CS] soldiers killed in a railroad collision in 1863, it became the resting place for dead from nearby battlefields. In 1866, under the direction of ...

History of Dills Tavern

Dills Tavern is a twelve room structure erected in three phases from 1794 to 1819. The Dill family maintained a tavern in the area beginning in the 1750's. The tavern was one of several business ventures carried on at this ...

Confederate Artillery

Artillery was an effective weapon, particularly when used in defensive combat. Nowhere was that demonstrated more clearly than here on Marye's Heights, where nine guns of the Washington Artillery shattered the ranks of the oncoming Union army. "The shells fell ...

Confederates on the Ridge

"What chance had flesh and blood to carry by storm such a position, garrisoned too as it was with veteran soldiers? Not one chance in a million."

Alexander Hunter,

17th Virginia Infantry.

At noon, December 13, 1862, the first of nine Union divisions ...

Broadmouth Baptist Church

[Front]:

This church, named for nearby Broadmouth Creek, was organized in 1837 with nine charter members. Rev. William P. Martin was its first minister, and William Long and Noah Riddle Reeve were its first deacons. This tract was purchased from Jesse ...

Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs Archeological District

This property

Has been listed in the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

1976

Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs

Archeological District

Marker can be reached from Petrified Forest Road.

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Cumberland County Veterans Memorial Clock Tower

Erected in loving memory of all veterans of Cumberland County

Dedicated July 4, 1957 with a parade and ceremonies at this spot

Built and presented to the veterans by

The Boiling Springs Civic Improvement Committee

Marker is at the intersection of E. First Street ...

Theodore Foss Memorial Highway

Dedicated to State Trooper

Corporal Theodore "Ted" Foss

1965–2000

Corporal Ted Foss was

killed August 31, 2000

on I-90 near Lewiston, Mn

while making a traffic stop

Marker can be reached from Interstate 90 at milepost 275, on the right when traveling west.

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