The M & O Railroad Trestle

This wooden and steel truss bridge was constructed for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad in 1898 by civil engineer Benjamin Hardaway, and 1887 graduate of The University of Alabama and former Tuscaloosa City Engineer. Originally 135-feet high with a 110-foot ...

Copp’s Hill and the American Revolution

In the 18th century, Copp’s Hill was higher than it stands today. On April 23, 1775, just a few days after the battles of Lexington and Concord, British Admiral Samuel Graves received General Gage’s permission to construct a redoubt on ...

The Goldsmith Building

Built in 1907 as

The Crane Building

Is part of the Pioneer Square Historic District

Which was entered in the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on 2nd Avenue South, on ...

The Thomas Party

In 1866 William Thomas, his son Charles, and a driver named Schultz left southern Illinois bound for the Gallatin Valley, Montana. Travelling by covered wagon they joined a prairie schooner outfit at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, and started over the Bridger ...

In Memory of Harold and Ethelind Woodhouse

who carved this farm out of the desert. We, the Wellton-Mohawk Valley Kiwanis Club, dedicate this spot. Here on May 1, 1952 Michael W. Straus, United States Commissioner of Reclamation turned the first water on to lands of the Wellton-Mohawk ...

The Earle Infirmary

Commemorating

the life and service to Furman University

and Greenville County of

Joseph Baylis Earle, M.D.

1862-1943

A.M., Furman University, Class of 1882

M.D., University of Virginia, Class of 1886

Furman Trustee, 1898-1837

Physician to Furman

He lived and labored for others.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Camp’s Road System

Adapting to the terrain, the arriving army used peaceful farm roads as lines of communication within the sprawling encampment. Livestock, commissary wagons, and troops dragging firewood quickly turned roads into rivers of mud. After Sullivan’s Bridge was completed, this road ...

Site of the Smaller Fort

Site of the smaller fort to protect the whites in the Indian War of 1855. A Stockade stretched from here to the main blockhouse at the foot of Cherry Street.

Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street and ...

Ewell Crosses the Appomattox

Racing West

(preface)

After Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant broke through Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s lines at Petersburg on April 2, 1865, Lee ordered the evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond. The Army of Northern Virginia retreated west on several roads, with ...

The Colonel James English House

circa 1760

Property granted to Sir Francis Salters, originally included Nos. 51 and 51-1/2 South Battery. In 1760, Col. James English built this single English style house with kitchen and servants building at 51-1/2. Old sea wall runs across rear of ...