Washington’s Retreat to Victory

November 24, 2013, 1:41 pm

New Jersey, Bergen County, Fort Lee

British Lieutenant General Charles Lord Cornwallis and five thousand of his troops crossed the Hudson River and made their way to Fort Lee from Huyler’s Landing Road on November 20th, 1776. General Nathanael Greene, warned of the invasion by a vigilant officer posted north of the post, led the evacuation of Fort Lee as three thousand soldiers and officers abandoned the fortifications of the Palisades and headed west on Fort Lee Road (present day Main Street) en route to escape at the New Bridge over the Hackensack River.
Marker Sponsored by
The Pohan Family
Dedicated November 20th, 2013

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Captain James Callaway

November 24, 2013, 1:47 pm

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Missouri, Callaway County, Fulton

Sacred to the memory of
Captain James Callaway,
who sacrificed his life in the defense of his country, and who fell in the same battle in which McMullin, McDermid and Houchins were killed.

Captain James Callaway,
raised and commanded a company of one hundred Rangers during the War of 1812-14. He is said to have fought the Indians in more than 100 engagements and was finally killed in the last battle of the war. He was shot by an Indian from ambush as he was swimming in Loutre Creek; his body was afterwards recovered by the Rangers and buried on the hillside overlooking Loutre at the mouth of Prairie Fork Creek.

Captain James Callaway,
the man after whom Callaway County was named, was born in Boonesburough, Ky., on Sept. 13th 1783. He was the grandson of Daniel Boone. His mother's maiden name was Jemima Boone. He was a brave and successful Indian fighter and was killed in battle with the Indians on the 7th of March, 1815.

This monument was erected with money raised in voluntary contributions from the citizens of Callaway County by Rev. W. H. Burnham.

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George Washington Swink

November 24, 2013, 3:39 pm

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Colorado, Otero County, Rocky Ford

Born in Kentucky in 1836
Came to Colorado in 1871

Established a general merchandise store and (trading post) at a rocky ford on the Arkansas River.

Moved store and family to present site in 1876, when Santa Fe Railroad was extended to Pueblo
Became postmaster at Rocky Ford 1875 to 1884.

He originated Watermelon Day in 1878
Later the famous Rocky Ford Cantaloupe.

Promoted construction of irrigation systems and
general farming in Arkansas Valley.
Was promoter of Arkansas Valley Fair.

Served as State senator two terms, from 1892 to 1900.

Personally purchased from Germany, beet seed
for promotion of sugar beet industry in Colorado
resulting in construction of
first beet sugar factory of Arkansas Valley in 1900.

Erected under auspices of Otero County Historical Society.

This monument located on s.w. quarter of
tract of land conveyed by Timber Culture Certificate No. 1

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Callaway County Men at War

November 24, 2013, 3:48 pm

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Missouri, Callaway County, Fulton

The Civil War divided Missouri, but in Callaway County more soldiers served with the pro-Southern Missouri State Guard (MSG), the Confederate Army or irregular partisans. The MSG was a state-sanctioned force, organized in May 1861 to defend Missouri against potential aggressive action by Union military authorities in St. Louis. This followed President Lincoln's order for volunteers after the firing on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

Callaway County quickly raised several companies for the MSG. First were the Callaway Guards, led by Capt. Daniel H. McIntyre, a Westminster College senior. They and other local companies fought under General Sterling Price in 1861 battles at Carthage, Wilson's Creek (Oak Hills) and Lexington.

Beginning in June 1861, Union troops advancing from St. Louis and elsewhere forced Missouri Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson and his administration into southwest Missouri. There, in October 1861, a remnant of the elected legislature declared Missouri seceded. Missouri soon began enrolling Confederate troops, and was represented in both the U.S. and Confederate Congresses.

Many MSG soldiers enlisted; some accepted amnestry from the Union and returned home; others retained their MSG status. After the March 1862 Confederate defeat at Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern), Ark., now-Confederate General Price led thousands of his troops to fight east of the Mississippi. Many, including Callaway men in the 1st Missouri Cavalry (Dismounted) and 2nd Missouri Infantry Regiments, served in the hard-fighting "Missouri Brigade" under General Francis M. Cockrell (a five-term U.S. senator from Missouri after the war). Fighting bravely in battles across the South, many never saw home again.

Other volunteers took part - for example - in cavalry raids into Missouri under generals like "Jo" Shelby or in General Price's long, ill-fated fall 1864 expedition resulting in his final defeat at Westport, Missouri.

Union men in Callaway County joined several volunteer units, like Colonel (later Brigadier General) Odon Guitar's 9th Missouri State Militia (M.S.M.) Cavalry, whom he trained into effective, disciplined guerrilla hunters. Guitar won a decisive victory in Callaway County July 28, 1862, against Colonel Joe Porter's rebel cavalry at Moore's Mill (Calwood). Some joined units of the Missouri Enrolled Militia (E.M.M.) - like the Callaway County E.M.M. - facilitated by Union Brig. Gen. John M. Schofield's July 22, 1862, order that all able-bodied Missouri men enroll and report for duty. Schofield later admitted his measure also drove into the "brush" thousands avoiding service; many became Confederate soldiers or guerrilla.

At least 133 local Union soldiers were slaves who joined the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) from November 1863 onward. Some enlisted voluntarily; others were enrolled by Unionists slave owners who were compensated. All were emancipated, serving honorably during the war and early Reconstruction. About 10 percent died in battle; overall they suffered a high 35 percent casualty rate from all causes.

Union Occupation of Fulton
The governmental seat of Callaway County, Fulton was occupied much of the war by Union troops, contrary to a short-lived non-invasion agreement Col. Jefferson Jones and local volunteers elicited from Union militia Brig. Gen. John B. Henderson in October 1861.

The first brief instance had been after the July 17, 1861, Overton Run skirmish south of Fulton, when troops under Col. John McNeil and then Lt. Col. Adam Hammer entered Fulton. Objecting to the Missouri Telegraph's positive depiction of a Southerner killed in the skirmish, Hammer's men ransacked the news office - the first local press "censorship."

After Union General John C. Fremont, commanding from St. Louis, declared martial law throughout Missouri in August 1861, local provost marshals enforced military law; they were empowered to identify citizens as disloyal, who, if convicted by military tribunals, could be incarcerated at St. Louis's Gratiot Street Prison, Alton (Ill.) or Jefferson City. "Disloyal" property owners were to bear the cost of Union occupation; citizens deemed disloyal were ordered to post bond or take a loyalty oath.

While Isaac D. Snedecor was provost marshal here, his brother James - once a Callaway Guard - was sentenced to death, though not executed, for bridge burning. Captain Snedecor also monitored Southern sympathizer John B. Williams' Telegraph, controlling its ink and paper supplies.

From December 1861 to summer 1862, Fulton was occupied by a battalion of the 3rd Iowa Cavalry. Scouting the "brush" and fighting at Moore's Mill, the 3rd Iowa made a positive enough impression to attract some Fulton enlistees.

However, Lt. Col. Arnold Krekel's St. Louis-area German-American cavalry battalion, serving here in late 1862, was derided as "Krekel's Dutch," guilty of numerous depredations, including summary executions of William and David Givens and Unionist Charles Hill, at Prairie Chapel, Sept. 4, 1862, during a Federal "search-and-destroy" mission for Confederate guerrillas.

The Union hold on Fulton was broken briefly when 180 partisan cavalry under notorious guerrilla Capt. Alvin Cobb galloped through Fulton on August 13, 1862, looting stores and briefly detaining Union men as well as confiscating their horses. Afterwards, Fulton enjoyed an anxious peace, mostly undisturbed by the sporadic violence in rural Callaway.

George W. Law (1828-1873)
Born in Franklin County, Va., Law was a popular farmer and family man near Reform who in 1861 commanded a Missouri State Guard company that served with distinction at the Battle of Lexington. He then led many of these men as captain of Co. B, 1st Missouri Confederate Cavalry, under Elijah P. Gates. Ascending to lieutenant colonel and second in command, he lost an arm in combat in the Vicksburg campaign. Postwar he was elected Callaway County sheriff but in 1873 was mortally wounded by vigilantes while transporting a prisoner. At his deathbed he was joined by his old commander Gates, himself Buchanan County sheriff, despite his own loss of an arm during the war. The heroic Law is remembered with an annual award honoring the county's outstanding law officer. Photo courtesy Isham Holland.

Sources: Richard S. Brownlee, Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy (1958, 1986); History of Callaway County, Missouri (1884), 289-96, 390-7, var.; Mark K. Douglas, Soldiers, Secesh and Civilians: Compiled Records of Callawegians in the War of the Rebellion (2001); Noel A. Crowson, From Slave to Soldier (2010); Fulton Telegraph, Sept. 13, 1878; Missouri Telegraph, 1861-1862.

Learn more at mocivilwar.org

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Ness Lutheran Church

November 24, 2013, 3:55 pm

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Minnesota, Meeker County, near Litchfield

    The first pioneers to settle in this area arrived by July, 1856, three months after their oxen-drawn prairie schooners left Rock County, Wisconsin. They were the families of Henrik H. Thoen, Ole H. Ness, Nels H. Colberg and bachelors Ole H. Thoen, Gunder Olson and Amos N. Fosen. They organized this community cemetery about one year later, with the first interment recorded in March, 1858.

    In late summer 1858, circuit minister William Fredrickson of Goodhue County organized the St. Johannes Lutheran Congregation of Meeker and Surrounding Counties at the home of Ole H. Ness. Three years later, in 1861, the twenty-five member congregation was reorganized as the Ness Norwegian Lutheran Church of Meeker County.

    One of Minnesota's oldest monuments, dedicated September 13, 1878, marks the common grave of the first five white settlers killed in the 1862 Sioux Indian War, which began about six miles to the west. Also interred here is Andreas Olson, killed by the Indians in September, 1862.

    In 1864 the Ness Congregation purchased forty acres of land, which included the cemetery, for one hundred dollars. In need of a church, since services had been held in a barn, a granary, and homes, they constructed the present church building in 1874 at a cost of $798.57. The church sill contains many of its original furnishings. The baptismal font, hand-hewn from a basswood log by Ellef Olson, dates from 1875. Also placed in the church that year were glass candleholders, now lavender with age.

    Over the years, the Ness Lutheran Church has helped to establish more than twenty other churches. At the last Sunday service in 1968, the 110 year old congregation disbanded, leaving the church and its contents to the Ness Memorial Cemetery Association to be kept as a memorial to its members and the early pioneers.

seal of the Natural Resources Fund
seal of The Minnesota Historical Society, Instituted 1849 Erected by the Minnesota Historical Society
1970

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G. B. Cashwell

November 25, 2013, 11:08 am

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North Carolina, Harnett County, Dunn

"Pentecostal Apostle of the South." Inspired by Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles in 1906, he led revival ¼ mi. S.W.

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Town of Smithfield

November 25, 2013, 11:15 am

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North Carolina, Johnston County, Smithfield

The Town of Smithfield
was chartered April 23, 1777
The Bicentennial of the
founding was commemorated
with a series of events
during April, 1977. The
capsule herein contains
momentos of our time

We ask that this time
capsule be opened in
April, 2077 at Smithfield's
Tricentennial celebration

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Edward W. Pou

November 25, 2013, 11:22 am

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North Carolina, Johnston County, Smithfield

Congressman, 1901-1934. Chairman House Rules Committee during parts of administrations of Wilson, F.D. Roosevelt. Grave is 200 yds. south.

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The Town of Smithfield

November 25, 2013, 11:33 am

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North Carolina, Johnston County, Smithfield

The Town of Smithfield was founded ten months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Its origins, however, date back to the 1750s with the arrival of John Smith, one of the area’s earliest settlers.

Neuse River Ferry Landing
In 1759 Smith petitioned to operate a ferry where the Neuse River cut through the land he owned. The site became known as Smith’s Ferry. In 1762, Smith’s son, John Smith, Jr. purchased 228 acres of his father’s tract, including the ferry. The younger Smith was 26 years old. In 1771, Smith and his wife took up residency on the land, building a home on a rise overlooking the river and the ferry. The home became a public house, providing overnight accommodations for travelers.

Johnston County Courthouse
Also in 1771, construction began on Johnston County’s third courthouse not far from Smith’s residence, and soon the name Smith’s Ferry was replaced by Johnston County Courthouse.

Town of Smithfield
The town of Smithfield came in to being with the inaugural session of the General Assembly of the newly proclaimed State of North Carolina in 1777. Smith, Jr. had agreed to provide 100 acres for the town and an additional 50 acres for a “common” along the Neuse River south and west of his riverside home.

Bridge Over the Neuse
Eventually, a bridge was built across the Neuse River, eliminating the need for Smith’s Ferry. This bridge was burned during the Civil War to hinder the Northern army in its march through the county. The bridge was rebuilt after the Civil War by J. Bryant Alford and used until the early 1900s. Mr. Alford was a free black during slavery and Johnston County’s first African-American merchant. He opened a saw mill, cotton gin and a store here.

The Neuse Riverwalk
Although the town’s 1777 charter set aside the land along the Neuse River as a commons, it wasn’t utilized as a park until nearly 200 years later. The Neuse Riverwalk, the trail stretching from the Girl Scout Hut at Second Street to the boat ramp at Bridge Street, was first conceptualized by Smithfield’s Year-Round Garden Club and was called the Neuse River Nature Trail. The trail opened in 1972, and improvements to it were made by the town’s Appearance Commission, Public Works Department and Parks and Recreation Department in conjunction with Smithfield’s Bicentennial celebration in 1977.

Improving the Riverwalk
In 1999, the Downtown Smithfield Development Corporation recognized the need for future improvements to the riverwalk and started a capital campaign to raise the money needed. The corporation commissioned and original painting of the colonial-era ferry landing on the Neuse River. Numbered prints signed by the artist, Renee K. Langdon, were sold to raise funds for the Riverwalk. Since 1999, these and other funds have been utilized to improve the Neuse Riverwalk by paving the trail and adding lighting. The riverwalk became part of the Buffalo Creek Greenway when it was completed in November 2009. The greenway is part of North Carolina’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail, which extends from Clingman’s Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Jockey’s Ridge State Park.

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(upper center)Smith's Ferry by artist Renee K. Langdon
(lower center) A 1970s photo of Year-Round Garden Club members (left to right) Mattie Lassiter, Josephine George, and Ruth Booker

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Mitchener Station

November 25, 2013, 11:46 am

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North Carolina, Johnston County, Selma

(preface)
The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the March to the Sea. Sherman’s objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to crush Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Scattered Confederate forces consolidated in North Carolina, the Confederacy’s logistical lifeline, where Sherman defeated Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s last-ditch attack at Bentonville. After Sherman was reinforced at Goldsboro late in March, Johnston saw the futility of further resistance and surrendered near Durham on April 26, essentially ending the Civil War.

(main text)
This is the Stevens House at Mitchener Station, where in the final days of the war, the last reviews of the Confederate army under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s command took place on April 4, and April 7, 1865. The entire army—the remnants of the Army of Tennessee—paraded on April 4, but only Gen. William J. Hardee’s Corps marched on April 7, watched by Johnston and numerous dignitaries. Among them were North Carolina Governor Zebulon B. Vance, Raleigh Daily Confederate editor Duncan Kirkland McRae, and several women from Raleigh. Hardee gave a reception afterward, then the party headed to Gen. Robert F. Hoke’s headquarters, where Governor Vance urged the North Carolina Junior Reserves to “fight till Hell freezes over!” After the speech, the governor and his entourage rode to the nearby Stevens farmhouse, where a cotillion was held in their honor before they returned to Raleigh. This proved to be the final review of the Confederate army, though few believed that the end was so near.

“I thought it rather too much of a good thing to be paraded twice in a week but the sight of the girls soon drove such unsoldierly thoughts away.” — Lt. Col. James W. Brown, 2nd South Carolina Artillery, on the review of Hardee’s Corps

“I witnessed to-day the saddest spectacle of my life…the review of the skeleton Army of Tennessee, that but one year ago was replete with men, and now filed by with tattered garments, worn out shoes, bare-footed and ranks so depleted that each color was supported by only thirty or forty men…The march was so slow—colors tattered and torn with bullets—that it looked like a funeral procession.” — Maj. Bromfield L. Ridley, Aide to Gen. A.P. Stewart, April 4, 1865

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(lower left) Gen. Johnston and Gen. Hardee Courtesy Johnston County Heritage Center

(right)North Carolina Gov. Zebulon B. Vance Courtesy North Carolina Office of Archives and History

(lower right) Agrippa Mitchener Johnston County Heritage Center
In 1856, the North Carolina Railroad linked Smithfield to Raleigh and Goldsboro. Mitchener Station, named after a prosperous local family, the Mitcheners, stood at the intersection of the North Carolina Railroad and the old Louisburg-Smithfield Stage Road in present-day Selma. Confederate soldiers from Kinston and Raleigh arrived at the station in March 1865 and took part in the Battle of Bentonville.

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The Last Grand Review

November 25, 2013, 11:49 am

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North Carolina, Johnston County, Selma

On this site, April, 1865, the last grand review of the Confederate Army was held. The troops were reviewed by General J.E. Johnston, Governor Vance and others.

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Kinston Battlefield Park

November 25, 2013, 11:59 am

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North Carolina, Lenoir County, Kinston

This site was the center of the Confederate’s final line of defense during the Dec. 13-14, 1862 Battle of Kinston. It occurred as Union General John G. Foster’s Division was enroute from New Bern to Goldsboro to destroy the Wilmington-Weldon Railroad Bridge which would cut a major supply route to General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Foster also planned to destroy the CSS Neuse gunboat under construction at White Hall (Seven Springs).

The Union advance through Lenoir County was stubbornly contested by Confederate General Nathan G. “Shanks” Evan’s Brigade; first at Southwest Creek, about four miles south on Dec. 13th and then here along the line defending Kinston on Dec. 14th. Although greatly outnumbered (~2,000 vs. ~12,000), the Confederates put a much stronger resistance than expected, but were overrun and withdrew north of the Neuse River in the direction of Goldsboro on Dec. 14th. Foster occupied Kinston overnight on the 14th but continued his movement toward Goldsboro on Dec. 15th, taking the River Road, south of the Neuse River.

Battle operational reports and diaries mentions that “small, unpainted wooden church”, known as “Harriet’s Chapel”, sat in this area. It was a focal point for both the Union and Confederate forces and was used as part of the defensive position by Confederates.

It received much damage during the fight but was used as a field hospital after the battle.

A section of the Confederate earth works are near here and lead to the site of Starr’s Battery, a Confederate artillery position. The church sitting on the site today is the New Beaverdam Primitive Baptist Church. It was built about 8 miles south in the 1860s. It was moved to this site in 2010, stabilized, restored and preserved by the Historical Preservation Group for use as an interpretive tool representing Harriet’s Chapel.

The site is being preserved with the help of a federal grant from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, Administered by the National Park Service. The Grounds are open to the general public. The site is owned by the Historical Preservation Group and managed by the Lenoir County Battlefields Commission — Kinston/Southwest Creek/Wyse Fork

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Bayou Pierre Presbyterian Church

November 25, 2013, 12:07 pm

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Mississippi, Claiborne County, Port Gibson

Following the arrival of Presbyterian missionaries in 1801, Joseph Bullen and James Smylie organized the Bayou Pierre Church at this site in 1807. After part of the congregation formed the Bethel Church southwest of here in 1824, the remaining members moved to Port Gibson. The church was renamed First Presbyterian Church of Port Gibson in 1828. During the Battle of Port Gibson, fought on May 1, 1863, the 20th Alabama Infantry was posted here, anchoring the right flank of Confederate Brig. General Edward D. Tracy's Brigade.

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The Night of December 13, 1862

November 25, 2013, 12:16 pm

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North Carolina, Lenoir County, Kinston

After the fighting near Southwest Creek, the Confederates withdrew toward Kinston. Marching north, they crossed a creek and waded through the frigid swamp. Many cold, wet soldiers spent a miserable night at Harriet’s Chapel.

The Confederate officers forbade the men to build fires. This prohibition only made the cold night even worse. Capt. William Edwards of 17th South Carolina went to his colonel and asked if his men could build fires. Col. Fitz William McMaster explained that fires would attract Union artillery. Edwards replied, “A death by a shell would be much easier than to slowly freeze to death.” The colonel relented, allowing his men to build “small fires.” The next morning the 17th South Carolina manned the line near the church.

The records indicate that the 61st North Carolina, 17th South Carolina and Holcombe’s Legion, another South Carolina unit, camped at or near Harriet’s Chapel on the cold night of December 13, 1862. The next day, some Confederate soldiers sought the protection offered by the church building. One Union account recalled, “In front of part of their lines stood a wooden church, and from its widows came many a shot…”

"Imagine our feeling lying upon the cold ground on a bitter cold December night knowing it would be a battleground on the morrow…” David Jackson Logan, 17 South Carolina

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Post Ouiatenon Site

November 25, 2013, 1:15 pm

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Indiana, Tippecanoe County, near West Lafayette

French and Indian Trade was significant in this area prior to 1700. To protect it Post Ouiatenon was established.

One Mile West

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Devil's Courthouse

November 25, 2013, 1:47 pm

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North Carolina, Transylvania County, near Brevard

The bare rock profile named Devil's Courthouse is sinister in appearance and legend. Its "devilish" look has contributed to the many folk tales surrounding this mountain.

Within the mountain is a cave where, legend claims, the devil holds court. In Cherokee lore, this cave is the private dancing chamber and dwelling place of the slant-eyed giant, Judaculla.

Despite its name and reputation, Devil's Courthouse is home to rare and delicate high-altitude plants. If you walk the one half mile route to the summit, please stay on the trail.

(Left Photo Caption)
The panoramic view from the summit includes four states: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee.

(Right Photo Caption)
Rare plants, like the Rock Gnome Lichen and the Spreading Avens, live on Devil's Courthouse. Some of these alpine species may be remnants from the last glacial period.

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President Robert L. D. Davidson

November 25, 2013, 5:53 pm

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Missouri, Callaway County, Fulton

Dedicated to the highest principles, President Robert L. D. "Larry" Davidson was a leader of character during times of both prosperity and adversity. As the 15th president of Westminster College, Davidson passionately invested in students, encouraged colleagues, and relished the challenges of higher education. Davidson was responsible for establishing the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library and bringing Ch[r]istopher Wren's Church of St. Mary, the Virgin, Aldermanbury, to the Westminster campus. Under Davidson's innovative leadership from 1955 to 1973, the College rose to new heights in enrollment, academic excellence, in facilities and in funding.

Leadership Plaza was dedicated on October 6, 2001 to commemorate Westminster College's 150th Anniversary and to honor president Emeritus Dr. [Robert] L. D. "Larry" Davidson

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Flight of Leadership
The two bird-like figures represent the cooperative interaction necessary for true leadership. Working together, all elements of Westminster College have contributed to its enduring history and lasting mission. Marking this sesquicentennial anniversary, the College rises to meet the next century, dedicated to excellence and to providing students with the education that will make them tomorrow's leaders.

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Westminster Hall Threshold

November 25, 2013, 6:10 pm

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Missouri, Callaway County, Fulton

Stepping stone to knowledge for more than 8,000 Westminster men

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Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech

November 25, 2013, 6:49 pm

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Missouri, Callaway County, Fulton

In this building
5 March 1946
the Right Honorable
Winston Churchill
Wartime Prime Minister of
Great Britain
delivered his
"Iron Curtain" Speech
having been introduced by
Harry S. Truman
President of the
United States of America

Erected MCML

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Westminster College Gymnasium
has been designated a
Registered National
Historic Landmark
under the provisions of the
Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935
This site possesses exceptional value
in commemorating or illustrating
the history of the United States
U.S. Department of the Interior
National Park Service
1968

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Westminster College Columns

November 25, 2013, 7:06 pm

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Missouri, Callaway County, Fulton

"A reminder of the historic past and a symbol of strength for the future."

The Columns of Old Westminster Hall, built in 1858, preserved after the Fire of 1909, repaired by the Class of 1927 and rebuilt in 1972 by many loyal alumni.

Restoration by
John Epple Construction Co.

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