Hereford Inlet Lighthouse

1874

This plaque was presented on June 3, 2006 by the New Jersey Sarah Soper Chapter of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century to recognize the unique architecture of the building and its importance as an aid to navigation.

Marker is ...

Navajo Code Talkers

United States Marine Corps - World War II

"Were it not for the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima"

Major Howard Connor, USMC 5th Marine Division

Signal Officer

In recognition of the Navajo Code Talkers who

distinguished themselves in developing ...

Site of Widow White’s Tavern

Here on December 13, 1776, Major General Charles Lee, second in command to General Washington in the Continental Army, was taken prisoner by a British Patrol.

Marker is at the intersection of South Finley Avenue and Colonial Drive, on the right ...

The Confederate Line

You are now standing beside the Sunken Road, part of a heavily used 19th-century road system that linked Washington, D.C. and Richmond. In 1862, Confederate riflemen fired from the road upon line after line of Union troops advancing across open ...

All Shapes, Sizes and Materials

Aids to Navigation

Primary seacoast lights were located to warn mariners of their proximity to land, the presence of navigational dangers, and to help set their course. By 1852, however, lighthouses and lightships often looked so much alike that it ...

Bethel Soldier’s Memorial

[ north face ]

In Memory

Of The

Soldiers & Sailors

Of Bethel

Who Gave Their Lives

In Defense Of The Union

1861 1865

[ south face ]

Albert Woodruff 2nd Conn. Art.

Adam Grimm 7th Conn.

James Smith 7th Conn.

Wm. H. Smith ...

Zoarville Station Bridge

Fink Through Truss Bridge

The Zoarville Station Bridge is a rare survivor of the earliest period of iron bridge construction in the United States, an era when unprecedented railroad expansion gave American bridge builders an international reputation for innovation. German immigrant ...

The Extended Right

July 3, 1864. Concurrent with Johnston’s evacuation of his Kennesaw Mtn. line [CS], McPherson’s Army of the Tenn. [US] was shifted to the rt. of Sherman’s forces & via Sandtown rd. reached this vicinity -- joining Hascall’s div., 23d A.C. ...

Stagecoach Road

This road is one of the oldest in North Georgia. In the Indian days it connected Hightower Trail to the Etowah Mounds and Cherokee country with trails to Coweta Falls (Columbus), the Chief McIntosh home on the Chattahoochee River and ...

In Commemoration of the 94th and 110th Reg’s. O.V.I.

Mustered in the U.S. Service on these Historical Grounds.

[View of left side of marker]

Mustered in Aug. 23, 1862

Battles Participated in by

The 94th O.V.I. Commanded by

Col. Joseph W. Frizell.

Perryville, KY. October 8, 1862

Stone River, ...