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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3S_coweta-town_Phenix-City-AL.html
Coweta Town, located east of this marker on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, is sometimes called New or Upper Coweta to distinguish it from its predecessor, Coweta Tallahassee, down river. Among other well-known Creeks, Coweta was the birthpl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3R_the-tie-snake_Phenix-City-AL.html
The Creek Indians believed this section of the river was inhabited by a giant Tie-Snake, a mythical monster that snared the unwary and dragged them down into the watery underworld. The Tie-Snake was but one of many strange creatures and natural fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3P_six-indians-hanged_Phenix-City-AL.html
In November 1836, six Creek and Yuchi Indians were hanged near this spot for their role in a last desperate uprising against the frontier whites of Georgia and Alabama. Following decades of provocation from whites anxious to gain control of their …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3O_horace-king_Phenix-City-AL.html
(side 1)Horace King a slave of John Godwin was construction foreman for the First Dillingham Street Bridge in 1832, when he and Godwin introduced the "town lattice" bridge design into the Chattahoochee Valley. King built most of the early wooden b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3K_confederates-set-fire-to-lower-bridge_Phenix-City-AL.html
Early in the afternoon of April 16, 1865 the first major act in the Battle of Girard-Columbus took place. Union General Emory Upton sent the First Ohio cavalry charging down old Crawford Road to capture the Dillingham Bridge, then known as the low…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3J_before-the-battle-battle-of-girard_Phenix-City-AL.html
(obverse)Before The Battle
All day that Easter Sunday the Confederate forces commanded by Col. Leon von Zinken awaited the Union Army they knew was on the way from Tuskegee. Lacking the men needed to hold it, they were forced to leave the line …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3H_red-hill-batteries_Phenix-City-AL.html
On April 16, 1865 the batteries of Confederate Major James Fleming Waddell of Seale, Alabama were positioned on the crest of this hill. Union forces under the command of Brevet Major General James H. Wilson were expected to launch a daylight attac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B39_ancient-fisheries_Phenix-City-AL.html
To the native people of the Chattahoochee River Valley, the Creek or Muskogulgi Indians, the shoals of the river were a source of recreation and food. In the spring, the women and children of Coweta Town came here to fish, using dip nets, spears, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14QI_confederate-fort_Phenix-City-AL.html
On the hill to the northwest is an earthen fortification built in 1863 as part of the defenses on the Confederate navy yard, iron works and other war-related industries in nearby Columbus, Georgia. Designated Fort #5 on the plan done by the CSA en…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWN8_bartrams-trail_Phenix-City-AL.html
William Bartram American's first native born artist- naturalists, passed through Russell County during the Revolutionary era, making the first scientific notations of its flora, fauna and inhabitants. As the appointed botanist of Britain's King Ge…