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Spring Garden

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Spring Garden, Alabama.
Was originally named Ambersonville after one of the early families that settled the community. A post office was established in 1842 as Liberty and changed to Spring Garden in 1844. The Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad began . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Indian Village of Costa

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Cedar Bluff, Alabama.
This general area is believed to be the site of the Indian village of Costa visited by DeSoto July 2, 1540. The very old cedar trees may have been here at that time. They are some of the largest in the Southeast. These . . .

(Exploration • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Turkey Town Council Site

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Centre, Alabama.
One mile south was an important Indian Council site from about 1707. Named for noted chief, the "Turkey". Here in October 1816, a council of Cherokees, Creeks, and Chickasaws met to settle boundaries and ratify a peace . . .

(Native Americans • Peace) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Plaquemine, Louisiana/Manchac Bend

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Memphis, Tennessee.
A) Plaquemine, Louisiana Mile 208.2 AHP The settlement that arose at the mouth of the Bayou Plaquemine took as its name the Native American word for the fruit, persimmon. Early settlers traveled on the bayou, but as the . . .

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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Memphis, Tennessee.
Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana... going navigation on the Mississippi River. ...gas fields in Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma... a major processing and transportation... industry. The French built the first fort here . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Native Americans • War, US Civil • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

White Hall Plantation/Union, Louisiana/Point Houmas

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Memphis, Tennessee.
A) White Hall Plantation Mile 166.0 AHP One of the most effective Confederate gun batteries on the river was located near White Hall. When it was bombarded by the Union Ironclad, Monongahela in 1863, the vessel’s commander . . .

(Disasters • Native Americans • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Donaldsonville, Louisiana/Bayou Lafourche/Geismar, Louisiana

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Memphis, Tennessee.
A) Donaldsonville, Louisiana Mile 175.0 AHP A trading post was established where Bayou Lafourche met the river in 1750, and a small community grew up around it. Most of the settlers were French, but the town was named for . . .

(Disasters • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Port Hudson, Louisiana/Fausse River Cutoff

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Memphis, Tennessee.
A) Port Hudson, Louisiana Mile 256.0 AHP This settlement began as a trading post and by the time of the U.S. Civil War, it was an important shipping center with both a steamboat landing and a rail line to the east. The . . .

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Hog Point, Louisiana/Raccourci Cutoff/Caernarvon Crevasse

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Memphis, Tennessee.
A) Hog Point, Louisiana Mile 298.2 AHP The channel off Hog Point, in the middle of Raccourci Cutoff, has long been one of the most troublesome stretches on the lower river. Constant dredging is required to keep the channel . . .

(Native Americans • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

The Clubhouse

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Jekyll Island, Georgia.
The Executive Committee hired architect Charles Alexander to design the Clubhouse. He designed the building in a Queen Anne style that complemented the natural beauty of the island and emphasized the rustic simplicity that . . .

(Architecture • Man-Made Features • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Morgan Tennis Court

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Jekyll Island, Georgia.
By 1905, tennis was gaining popularity on the island over hunting. Robert Pruyn, chairman of the committee on golf and sports, said, "For two years, tennis has been the most popular outdoor sport," and requested additional . . .

(Man-Made Features • Notable Buildings • Parks & Recreational Areas • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Preserving the Legacy

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Jekyll Island, Georgia.
Chartered by the State of Georgia to be trustworthy stewards of the island, the Jekyll Island Authority has been very active in the preservation of the National Historic Landmark District. The rehabilitation of Crane Cottage . . .

(Architecture • Man-Made Features • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

All Work and No Play

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Jekyll Island, Georgia.
With only drive and ambition, Frank Henry Goodyear rose from a $35-per-month bookkeeper to the head of a vast lumber, coal, iron, and railroad empire. Far from viewing Jekyll Island as a place to escape the stresses of . . .

(Architecture • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Mack M. Matthews School

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Pinckard, Alabama.
Front The original part of this building was home to one of the oldest African American schools in Dale County. In 1949 on this site, the new building for the Pinckard Colored School was constructed and Mack M. Matthews . . .

(Education • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dothan Municipal Light and Water Plant

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Dothan, Alabama.
Municipal Light & Water Plant has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior 1991

(Landmarks • Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Columbia Cemetery

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Columbia, Alabama.
Front The Columbia Cemetery was started in the 1830s on land given by Rev. Edmund Talbot. It postdates the abandoned Omussee Creek Church Cemetery located a mile SW of here. A "public Meeting house," which served as the . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Civil War

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Gonzales, Louisiana.
Background Throughout the antebellum period, the Northern and the Southern United States developed divergent economies as the North industrialized and commercialized while the South's mild climate and extended growing season . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

World War I

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Gonzales, Louisiana.
Panel 1 Background World War I, also known as the Great War, was a global clash between most of the world's great powers from 1914 to 1918. The participating nations divided themselves into two camps. On one side, . . .

(War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Omussee Creek Mound and Mississippian Period Societies

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near Columbia, Alabama.
Near where you stand lies Omussee Creek Mound, the southernmost platform mound along the Chattahoochee River, occupied approximately 1300 to 1550 A.D. as part of an important Native American settlement. This region of . . .

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Omussee Creek Mound and the Ancestors of the Creek

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near Columbia, Alabama.
We do not know the exact date that residents of the community of which Omussee Creek Mound was a part abandoned the mound, but by around 1550 it was definitely in decline. Many believe this may have been part of a broader, . . .

(Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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