Oakland Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

A Brief History

William Henry Haynes, Sr. donated land for the Oakland Church and cemetery in 1811 to trustees James M. Montague, John P. Haynes, David Williamson and William H. Haynes, Jr. But the deed was not recorded until 1859. The ...

The Confederate Statue

The unarmed Confederate soldier standing in the intersection of Washington and Prince Streets marks the location where units from Alexandria left to join the Confederate Army on May 24, 1861. The soldier is facing the battlefields to the South where ...

Oakland Grove Presbyterian Church

First called the Church by the Spring, Oakland Grove Church may have been organized as early as 1834, but it was officially established circa 1847 as a mission of Covington Presbyterian Church. A simple brick house of worship constructed during ...

William B. and Athlyn C. Pritchett

owned and operated the Pritchett Insurance and Real Estate Agency in Pittsburg, Ks. for more than 50 years.

This park is one of the results of a trust they established with a mission to improve the quality of life in Pittsburg ...

Muskingum County Medal of Honor Memorial

Alfred Ransbottom

Civil War - Army

2-24-1865

Robert B. Brown

Civil War - Army

3-27-1890

George A. Lloyd

Civil War - Army

4-16-1891

William E. Richey

Civil War - Army

11-9-1893

William H. Longshore

Civil War - Army

8-10-1894

William C. Bryan

Indian War - Army

7-23-1900

Forrest Everhart

WWII - Army

9-10-1945

Melvin Mayfield

WWII - Army

5-31-1946

Ronald E. Rosser

Korean War - ...

Olde Sinepuxent

Ever since explorer Giovanna da Verrazzano sailed through Sinepuxent Bay in 1524, human activty along these waters has helped shape Assateague's history. Except for intriguing place names on local maps, almost all traces of these historic events have been erased ...

Allendale County War Memorial

In Memory

Of

War Dead

Of

Allendale County

Dedicated June 1954

to the memory of

brave men, who died

that their country

might live

Marker is on Allendale-Fairfax Highway (U.S. 278) near Laurens Avenue North, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Colonial Industrial Quarter

1741 - 1800

“They have carried the mechanical Arts to greater Perfection here than in any Place which I have seen.”

John Adams to Abigail Adams

April, 1777

Early Industrial History

By 1745, only four years after they founded Bethlehem (1741), the Moravians, a modern ...

The Cathedral Group

Viewed from this perspective, Teewinot Mountain, the Grand Teton, and Mount Owen comprise the Cathedral Group."These peaks have been called the Cathedral Group...more evident here than in many of the great cathedrals of men is the Gothic note. It is ...

Those People Stand No Chance

From this dominating position, Confederates of Major General Robert Hoke’s Division, easily repulsed part of the famous June 3 assault. For the South Carolinians holding this line, the battle ended before they knew a serious charge had been made.

[I was] ...