Florence Stockade Monument

This boulder was placed here

by the United Daughters of

the Confederacy of

Florence, S.C. January 27, 1947

To record the fact that

directly south of this spot

was situated a stockade where

6,500 Federal prisoners

were confined

1864 ~ 1865

and

To ...

Denuded Ouachita Rock Belt

Denuded Ouachita Rock Belt In highway cuts toward the east are excellent exposures of almost vertical rocks layers--part of the Ouachita Fold Belt, a northeasterly trending folded and faulted mountainous range which was uplifted about 275 to 290 million years ...

Poinsett Bridge

This bridge

on the

state road

from

Greenville to Asheville

was built

in

1820

by

Abram Landing,

Acting Commissioner,

Board of Public Works.

Joel R. Poinsett, President.

Marker is on Callahan Mountain Road (State Highway S23-42).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of Old Wortley Hotel

In this frontier hostelry lodged judges during court terms, court's retainers. Here Robt. M. Ollinger, at table, noon, April 28, 1881, heard shooting from Courthouse, rushed to his death at hands of William H. Bonney.

Marker is on U.S. 380 at ...

Murphy-Dolan Store

Built in 1874, as place of business and residence of L.G. Murphy & Co., a dominant factor in area in 1870's, and headquarters of the Murphy faction during Lincoln County War. Firm failed, and store became county gov't and judicial ...

The Federal Collapse

“All was disorder and excitement; the field was full of me running for their very lives, and it was almost impossible to make any resistance to the tide of humanity pressing down upon us….It seemed as though the air was ...

Defenders of the Union

1861-1865

Erected by a grateful people to commemorate the services and sacrifices of the soldiers and sailors in the War of the Rebellion.

Right of Monument:

Malvern Hill, Salem Heights, Petersburg, Crampton Pass, Spottsylvania, Roanoke Island, Cold Harbor

Back of Monument:

Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Gaines ...

Mistaken Identity

“It was now sun down and the air was dense with smoke, so that we were realty not certain whether the column before us were friends or enemies….Their banner was furled, and we could not get any clue from that….Just ...

The First Railroad in West Tennessee

The LaGrange and Memphis Railroad

Organized in 1835, the LaGrange and Memphis Railroad operated the first train from Memphis 4 1/2 miles on March 29, 1842, on the present roadbed of the Southern Railway. The depot which was destroyed by fire ...

Messersmith's Woods

Name of grove selected by Gen. R.E. Lee for his headquarters, June 26-30, 1863. Here he issued the order for the concentration of troops near Gettysburg. Site of woods is just south of this point.

Marker is on US 30 0.1 ...