Confederate Hospitals

In February 1864, to relieve the serious overcrowding of Confederate hospitals in the Atlanta and Dalton areas, Columbus was chosen as the site of a 1,500 bed army hospital. Eight buildings on Broad Street, including two saloons and the Court ...

The Stoneman Raid

Closing in on Atlanta in July 1864, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, USA, found its vast fortifications “too strong to assault and too extensive to invest.” To force an evacuation, he sent Maj. Gen. George Stoneman’s cavalry [US] (2112 men and ...

Battle of Raymond

May 12, 1863, on Fourteen Mile Creek, 2,500 Confederate troops under Gen. John Gregg attacked a 10,000 man corps under Gen. James B. McPherson. Outnumbered, Gregg was forced to withdraw to Jackson.

Marker is on Mississippi Route 18 0.1 miles west ...

Bethesda Baptist Church

Organized shortly after the Civil War with Rev. Edward Rhue as its first pastor, Bethesda Baptist Church purchased this site by 1867. Construction of this sanctuary began in 1922 during the pastorate of Rev. A.W. Puller and was completed and ...

The Anderson Sports and Entertainment Complex

Civic Center of Anderson - 1992

Chris Taylor Memorial Park - Dedicated 1998

Anderson Sports Complex - 1999

Anderson County Amphitheater - 1999

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The Anderson County Sports and Entertainment Center

was designed to improve the quality of life for all

citizens of Anderson County. Although created ...

Undertaker's Office

Life in the mid 1800s was difficult. The average age of death in the United States of America was around 40 years old. Disease, accidents and hard work took its toll on people lives.

This exhibit displays artifacts, dating from the ...

Ottendorfer Branch of the New York Public Library

Designed by the architect William Schickel and built in 1883-1884, the Ottendorfer Library was the first building in Manhattan to be erected specifically as a free public lending library. The building combines elements from several late Victorian architectural styles and ...

Saint Mary Magdalen Church

Four churches dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalen have stood on this site purchased from Joseph LeBlanc by Pere Megret in 1843. The present church was built in 1911 under the pastorate of Père Laforest.

Marker is on Pere Megret Street (Louisiana ...

Noted Indian Trail

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The road running east towards Big Spring is a remnant of the Oakfuskee Trail, main branch of the noted Upper Creek Trading Path from the Savannah River to the Creek Indians of Central Alabama.

Beginning at present Augusta, Georgia ...

Old St. Nicholas Cemetery

The original cemetery associated with St.

Nicholas Lutheran Church is 1/3 mile S off

SC Hwy 641. The church, originally located

nearby, was founded about 1804 in what was

then Barnwell District, and the cemetery

includes family plots of the Platts, Harter,

and other area ...