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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM617_wm-johnstons-mill_Atlanta-GA.html
About 0.3 mile upstream N. Fork Peachtree Cr., is the site of a mill owned by Wm. Johnston (1789-1855), -a landmark of Federal military operations in the Summer of 1864. Schofield's 23d A.C., having crossed the Chattahoochee River at Isom's Ferry …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM616_olin-d-johnston-memorial-boulevard_Calhoun-Falls-SC.html
Named in honorof a distinguished South Carolinianin recognition of hiscontributionsto the life and welfareof this state and its citizens
Member, House of Representatives1923-1924 Anderson County1927-1930 Spartanburg County
Governor1935-1939 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM615_kittiewan-and-doctor-rickman_Charles-City-VA.html
Two miles south is Kittiewan, mid-eighteenth century manor house. Here lived Doctor William Rickman. From 1776 to 1780 he was director and Chief Physician of the Continental Hospitals of Virginia.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM614_long-canes-massacre_Troy-SC.html
Three miles west is the site of an attack by Cherokee Indians upon settlers of Long Canes in the Cherokee war of 1759-1761. There on February 1, 1760, about 150 settlers, refugeeing to Augusta, were overtaken by 100 Cherokee warriors. Twenty-three…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM613_upper-weyanoke_Charles-City-VA.html
In 1617, Opechancanough, Chief of Powhatan's younger brother, gave land to the south to future governor Capt. George Yeardley. Yeardley patented it and a portion became Upper Weyanoke, a James River plantation. Archaeological investigations there …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM612_north-bend_Charles-City-VA.html
Three miles south is North Bend, a Greek Revival residence built in 1819. Sarah Minge, sister of President William Henry Harrison, and her husband, John, built the original portion of the house located on Kittiewan Creek. Thomas H. Wilcox greatly …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM611_bethany-church_McCormick-SC.html
The first Bethany Meeting House was erected by 1809 on the old Edgefield-Abbeville Stagecoach Road midway between Hard Labor and Cuffey Town Creeks. Bethany Baptist Church was constituted in December 1809, with Amos Dubose as pastor. The present c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM610_point-lookout-confederate-cemetery_Scotland-MD.html
Erected by the State of Maryland in memory of the Confederate Soldiers who died Prisoners of War at Point Lookout, from March 1st, 1864, to June 30th, 1865.
(north face) "At the call of Patriotism and duty they encountered the perils of the fie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM60Z_new-hope-court-house_Charles-City-VA.html
Since the establishment of the Court House during the mid-eighteenth century, this area has served as a community center for the entire county. During the Revolution and Civil War the area was the site of military encampments. A tavern built in th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM60Y_mary-gay-house_Decatur-GA.html
Author, poet, historian and Confederate heroine - Mary Ann Harris Gay (1828-1918) lived in this house from 1850 to 1914. She is best known for her Life in Dixie During the War which describes the Union Siege of Atlanta and the tribulations of the …