Intermediate Defenses

Here ran, east and west, the intermediate line of Richmond defenses during the Civil War. Near this spot on 1 March 1864 Union Brig. Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick halted his raid that was intended to free Union prisoners and lower ...

The Dearborn Inn / Colonial Homes and Adjacent Buildings

The Dearborn Inn

Henry Ford built the Dearborn Inn in 1931 to accommodate overnight travelers arriving at the Ford Airport. Located opposite the inn on Oakwood Boulevard, the airport opened in 1924. The 179-room inn, designed by Albert Kahn, was ...

Major Nathan Goodale

To commemorate the service of

Major Nathan Goodale

Oct. 11, 1777

He bravely captured Burgoyne’s

store boats in the face of the enemy

at the mouth of the Fishkill.

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Under orders of General Gates

with 7 scouts he captured 129

prisoners before October 7th.

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Distinguished services also in 1778.

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Erected ...

Town Clock / Kaminski Building

Town Clock

This Greek Revival market

and town hall was built in 1842 after a fire destroyed many of the frame buildings on Front Street. An open-air market occupied the first floor and the town hall occupied the second floor; the clock ...

Mauldin United Methodist Church

This church, founded around 1867 as Poplar Springs Methodist Episcopal Church South, was Mauldin's first church and it operated the community's first school. The name was changed in 1956 to Mauldin United Methodist Church.

Marker is on East Butler Road near ...

Noted Indian Trail

The Upper Trading Path, one of the historic Indian routes of the Southeast, passed this spot, leading from present Augusta to tribes as far west as the Mississippi River. By various connections the trail reached the Cherokees of North Georgia; ...

The "Oldest" House

The

Historic Santa Fe

Foundation

Finds this building

worthy of preservation

The

"Oldest" House

(West Portion)

Marker is on East De Vargas Street west of Old Sante Fe Trail, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Companies A and C, 1st Ohio Cavalry

(Front):Companies A and C

1st Ohio Cavalry

Headquarters Guard

2d and 3d Divisions

Cavalry Corps

Erected by

The State of Ohio

(Left):Companies A and C

1st Ohio Cavalry

July 1, 2, 3, 1863

during the battle of

Gettysburg these companies

furnished bearers of

dispatches to different

parts of the field.

In the course of the

campaign ...

Entrance Gate to Fort Ward

Officers' Hut

The Fort Ward entrance gate, completed in May 1865, provided the only access to the interior of the fort. The gate's decorative details include stands of cannonballs and the insignia (castle) of the Army Corps of Engineers which designed ...

The Original R.F.D.

In 1868 at Norwood six men along a five mile rural route hired Jerry Parsons, a Negro who could not read, to deliver and collect mail at their homes each day except Sundays and holidays for his food and clothing. ...