Original Home Built By Gottlieb and Johanna Heileman

This is the original Heileman family mansion. It was built on land purchased by Gottlieb Heileman in 1870.

As was the custom of the day, Heileman located the new home as closely as possible to the Brewery which he had founded.

The ...

The Discovery of Insulin

Decouverte De L'Insuline

{The marker has a both an English and French version. In English:}

In one of the most important advances in modern medicine, a team of investigators isolated and purified insulin in a building which stood on this site. On ...

First Congregational Church of Hudson

On this site, the first meetinghouse owned by the Hudson Congregational Church was dedicated March 1, 1820, twenty-one years after David Hudson first came to the Hudson area. Its members met here until they completed their sanctuary on Aurora Street ...

First United Church, U.C.C

Located 1/4 mile North on Owl Hollow Rd. in 1873, the church was founded by Swiss-German settlers as the German Reformed Church and was the first such church in Tennessee. The church became the center of Swiss culture in this ...

Captain Samuel Handly

Capt. Samuel Handly fought in the Indian Wars of the 1770's and in the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780. Indians captured him in a battle at Crab Orchard and released him after negotiations with Gov. William Blount. Handly was ...

Seven Days Battles

Glendale (Frayser's Farm)

Here stood the center of Longstreet's line of battle in the afternoon of June 30, 1862. The Confederates, coming from the west, attacked the Union line just beyond. The battle lasted all afternoon, with varying fortunes and much ...

Creighton's Brigade

Geary's Division - Slocum's Corps.

Creighton's Brigade

Geary's Division - Slocum's Corps.

Col. William R. Creighton.

Nov. 25, 1863, 6 p.m.

5th Ohio - Col. John H. Patrick.

7th Ohio - Lieut. Col. Orrin J. Crane.

29th Ohio - Col. William T. Fitch.

66th Ohio - Capt. Thomas ...

Sunnyside School, Midway Baptist Church and Midway Cemetery Hist

The community building and spaces in the Sunnyside/Midway Historic District reflect rural Harris County in the 1920’s. Sunnyside School was built by local residents in 1921 to consolidate several one-room schools. It was used as an elementary and high school ...

Second Battle of Deep Bottom

About noon on 16 Aug. 1864, Union Brig. Gen. Alfred H. Terry, with almost 5,000 men in four brigades, attacked the Confederate line over this ground. In a brief yet vicious struggle, Terry's men broke through 400 yards west of ...

First Aero Squadron

First tactical air unit, U. S. Army; was stationed here 1913-1915 during U. S. border troubles caused by revolution in Mexico. The 7 planes, 5 officers, and 21 enlisted men were not in combat, but made aerial maps and achieved ...