Marksville, Louisiana.
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Victorian dwelling Colonial influence. Built by Alfred Bordelon who practiced dentistry and law in Cottonport and Marksville. Built along northern edge of Spanish land grant of Francois Bordelon.
(Architecture • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Victorian dwelling Colonial influence. Built by Alfred Bordelon who practiced dentistry and law in Cottonport and Marksville. Built along northern edge of Spanish land grant of Francois Bordelon.(Architecture • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
(side 1) Loren Andrus (1816-1901) came to Macomb County from New York State in 1828. He served as an assistant engineer on the survey of the Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal, but gained prominence in agricultural work. In particular . . . 
The Fox Inn was built over 250 years ago as The home of Charles Hall and known as Broadclose. In 1777 Charles founded the Ansty Brewery while troops were assembling on The Dorsetshire coast anticipating a French invasion . . . 
Sostenes Rocha Nacio en 1831 en Mineral de Marfil, Guanajuato. Se graduo en el Colegio Militar, y participo con el grado de Gral. durante el Sitio de Queretaro. Fue eficaz apoyo de Benito Juárez. Murio en 1897. English . . . 
Thomas Dunn came here in the year 1801 and settled on the lands at Big Eddy, of which this cemetery is a part. He, his wife Su Dunn and five of his children survived the Wyoming Massacre July 1778 after which he enlisted in . . . 
Simón Bolivar Libertador de: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Panamá Fundador de: Bolivia El pueblo mexicano, siempre de acuerdo con los primeros movimientos de la naturaleza, con la razón, con la política, ha querido . . . 
Ltcuntadun is the name given to this place by the native Sinkyone-Lolangkok people. For hundreds of years they celebrated the river's abundant salmon, lamprey and steelhead. In 1876, a ferry crossed the river here. The town . . . 
Marc Eliché founder of Marksville, and his wife Julie Carmouche resided in a home on this site.
A Confederate military hospital was maintained in this area during the Red River campaign of the Civil War. Patients were housed in a Mr. Richaud's buildings on Monroe Street according to an 1864 newspaper account.
Text on the first tablet; Adams' Brigade. Breckinridge's Division - Hill's Corps. Brigadier General Daniel W. Adams. September 20, 1863, 10 a.m. 32nd Alabama, - Major John C. Kimbell. 13th and 20th Louisiana, - Colonel . . . 
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After gold was discovered in Deadwood Gulch in 1875, commercial buildings were quickly erected on the flat land along Main Street, leaving the hillsides above as the only area for residential development. The first houses in . . . 
Side 1 Emma E. Booker, a pioneer Black educator was teaching in Sarasota's public school for Negro children in the 1910s. By 1918 she was principal of "Sarasota Grammar School" which held classes in rented halls. The Julius . . . 
History of the Marchmont Community Garden site: The site was at the heart of Lamb's Conduit Fields until the cash-strapped Governors of the Foundling Hospital allowed James Burton to build hundreds of houses on their . . . 
Withdrawal of the Union Left September 20, 1863, 5:30 P.M. At half after 5 o'clock Reynolds' Division was moved out of the works south of the Kelly Field, encountering no opposition until it reached a point near the end of . . . 
Stovall's Brigade. Breckinridge's Division, - Hill's Corps. Brigadier General Marcellus A. Stovall. September 20, 1863, 10:30 a.m. 1st, and 3rd, Florida, - Colonel William S. Dilworth. 4th, Florida, - Colonel W.L.L. Bowen. . . . 
35th. Regiment Ohio Infantry, Van Derveer's Brigade. 11:00 a.m. September 20, 1863.
18th. Regiment Ohio Infantry, Stanley's Brigade. 10:00 a.m. September 20, 1863. Advanced north 2000 feet.
Illinois 18th Infantry, Stanley's Brigade. 10 a.m. September 20, 1863.
County Seat Kern County 1866 - 1873