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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CL_stuarts-hill-walking-trail_Manassas-VA.html
The 2 ? mile Stuart's Hill loop trail takes you over the ground where General James Longstreet launched a massive Confederate counterattack late on the afternoon of August 30, 1862. After intense fighting on Chinn Ridge and along the Sudley Road, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CK_the-battle-begins_Manassas-VA.html
Mid-afternoon on August 28, 1862, Union soldiers from General Rufus King's division rest along Pageland Lane awaiting orders for them to continue marching south seven miles to Manassas Junction.
Late afternoon, orders arrived prompting King to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CJ_edgar-wilson-nye_River-Falls-WI.html
"Bill" Nye, journalist, lecturer, author, and humorist, grew to manhood in this quiet valley of the Kinnickinnic, which flows southwesterly through River Falls. The tall-tales of frontier humor were popular regionally before 1860. Samuel Clemens (…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CI_sharpsburg-antietam-campaign_Leesburg-VA.html
Near here Stonewall Jackson bivouaced on the march into Maryland, September 4, 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CH_hampton-heights-historic-district_Spartanburg-SC.html
Located one block west, this historic district was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 because of its historical and architectural significance as an example of an intact early twentieth-century neighborhood. A number of po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CG_city-of-donalsonville_Donalsonville-GA.html
According to a map "Plan of Donalson" dated April 1889, the town was laid out by John Earnest Donalson. On December 8, 1897, a charter, signed by Governor William Yates Atkinson, was granted incorporating the town of Donalsonville. Officers appoin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CF_boiling-springs-south-carolina_Boiling-Springs-SC.html
This bubbling spring gave the community of Boiling Springs its name. Earliest records indicate settlement in the area began around this site in the mid-1700s. Prior to that trappers stopped here as they traveled the Piedmont en route from the moun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CE_boyhood-home-of-woodrow-wilson_Augusta-GA.html
Woodrow Wilson, later to become 27th President of the United States, lived in this Manse of the First Presbyterian Church of which his father, Dr. Joseph R. Wilson, was pastor from 1858 to 1870. Wilson was born in Staunton, Va., in 1856 and he lat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CD_federal-artillery-position_Manassas-VA.html
August 29 & 30, 1862Federal Artillery PositionA succession of Union artillery batteriesoccupied this ridge throughoutAugust 29 and 30, 1862.
August 29Company I, 1st Ohio Light ArtilleryCapt. Hubert Dilger (9-11 a.m.)
2nd Battery, New York Li…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CC_mabel-tainter-memorial_Menomonie-WI.html
Erected to the memory of Mabel Tainter, daughter of lumberman Andrew L. Tainter and his wife Bertha, and given to area citizens on July 3, 1890, the Memorial reflects advanced American architectural, social, educational and religious thought of th…