Trail of the Cedars

On the Trail of the Cedars along Avalanche Creek, and on the Johns Lake Trail, visitors walk through some of the shadiest parts of the park. Huge western red cedars, hemlocks and cottonwoods absorb nearly all the direct sunlight in ...

The Bloody Cedars

"Which was done with alacrity and spirit."

As the Battle of New Market unfolded on May 15, 1864, Confederate troops under Gen. John C. Breckinridge heavily assaulted the left flank of Union Gen. Franz Sigel's army. Sigel counterattacked with Gen. Julius ...

The Fight for the Cedars

December 31, 1862

1. The Union line was smashed by the Confederate onrush. Reserve troops rushed here to stem the tide.

2. Those Union soldiers, confused by the cedar thickets, fog and smoke, also fled.

3. Union infantry and artillery along the Nashville ...

The Cedars

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The high hill on which The Cedars stands was a home - site for the Indians before the arrival of white men. Not long after the Revolutionary War, Anthony Poulin, a Frenchman of noble birth who came to the aid ...

The Cedars

In 1836, John Banks and his wife, the former Sarah Watkins, both natives of Elbert Co., Ga., moved to Columbus, bought this property (then totaling 265 acres) in the fashionable suburb of Wynnton and began construction of this Greek Revival ...

Treaty of the Cedars

The Treaty of the Cedars was concluded on the Fox River near here September 3, 1836. Under the treaty the Menominee Indian nation ceded to the United States about 4,000,000 acres of land for $700,000 (about 17 cents per acre). ...