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Evans Creole Candy Factory

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Louisiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans
An important part
of Louisiana's heritage is the famous
Creole cuisine which produced such
tasty delicacies as the praline, crisp
candy made by adding pecans to boiling
sugar. A similar confection was made
in France with almonds, but when
the Louisiana colonists substituted pecans
for the almonds and used brown sugar rather
than refined sugar, they created an
entirely new candy, a candy that is
distinctively Southern in flavor
and richness.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bagg's Tavern

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New York, Oneida County, Utica
Bagg's Tavern
Originally a log house
Founded 1794 by Moses Bagg
Washington, LaFayette
Henry Clay & Gen. Grant
Were guests here

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Site of Old Fort Schuyler

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New York, Oneida County, Utica
[Text on north side of marker]:

The Site of
Old Fort Schuyler
1758

[Text on south side of marker]:

The historical and patriotic
societies of Utica place this
stone to mark the site of one
of a chain of fort's built to
protect the northern frontier
from the French and their Indian
allies, and to guard the Great
Ford across the Mohawk River.

(Colonial Era • Forts, Castles • War, French and Indian) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Defenses of Richmond

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Virginia, Henrico County, near Varina
Nearby stood one of the outer Confederate defensive lines that guarded Richmond during the Civil War (1861-1865). A series of earthworks and fortifications was built to protect the city and to allow the outnumbered Confederates to make maximum use of their manpower. By war’s end, the defensive system included three concentric lines of earthworks, batteries, and fortifications. A permanent Confederate garrison defended Richmond, often manning the lines in times of emergency. The proximity of the Union army during the final year of the war forced the Confederates to occupy the city’s defenses continuously.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

1862 Peninsula Campaign

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Virginia, Henrico County, near Varina
In April 1862, Union Gen. George B. McClellan began marching his huge Army of the Potomac west up the Peninsula between the James and York Rivers from Fort Monroe to Richmond, the Confederate capital. Gen. John B. Magruder’s forces delayed the Federals for almost a month at Yorktown. Reinforced by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston but still vastly outnumbered, the Confederates withdrew fighting up the Peninsula to Richmond. Gen. Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia when Johnston fell wounded on May 31. Beginning on June 26, Lee counter-attacked and forced the Federals away from the city in a series of actions known as the Seven Days’ Battles. The fighting ended after the bloody Battle of Malvern Hill on July 1. McClellan eventually withdrew to Fort Monroe.

Follow in the footsteps of one of the largest troop movements in military history. Virginia Civil War Trails’ 1862 Peninsula Campaign: Civil War in Tidewater is a 125-mile tour route that allows you to explore more than 60 sites in Tidewater Virginia. Please drive carefully as you enjoy the history and beauty along the trail.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lee vs. Grant

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Virginia, Henrico County, near Varina
Early in May 1864, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant hoped to end the Civil War by attacking Confederate armies simultaneously throughout the South. The commander in chief of all U.S. armies, Grant, accompanied Gen. George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac as it campaigned against Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Lee sought defended Richmond, the Confederate capital; Grant and Meade maneuvered south and east around Lee’s right flank toward the city. In a series of horrifically bloody battles, the Union generals forced Lee into defensive positions, such as the earthworks you see here, east of Richmond and Petersburg by late June. Instead of battles in the open, trench warfare would occupy the next ten months until Lee evacuated the cities in April 1865.

Follow in the footsteps of Gens. Lee and Grant along the Virginia Civil War Trails 1864 Overland Campaign, a 125-mile tour route that allows you to explore more than 60 sites in central Virginia. Please drive carefully as you enjoy the history and beauty along the trail.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Opposunoquonuske

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Virginia, Chesterfield County, near Chester
In 1607, Opposunoquonuske, sister of the Appamattuck Indian chief Coquonasum, headed an Appamattuck town on the James River at the mouth of the Appomattox. On 24 May 1607, Opposunoquonuske received a party of Englishmen in a stately fashion, greatly impressing them. After the August 1610 destruction of a Paspahegh Indian town by Lord de la Warr's forces, Opposunoquonuske's men ambushed English soldiers whom she had invited into her town. The English retaliated that winter by burning her town, killing several Indians, shooting and wounding Opposunoquonuske. By 1613 Bermuda Hundred had been established at the town site.

(Colonial Era • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Point of Rocks

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Virginia, Chesterfield County, near Colonial Heights
Point of Rocks, named for a sandstone cliff on the Appomattox River, marked the southern end of the Union defensive line that stretched across the Bermuda Hundred peninsula. In May 1864, the Union army seized property east of the present-day park from its owner, the Rev. John Alexander Strachan, and built a field hospital there. The Strachan house became the surgeons’ quarters, and a cemetery was also established on the property. After the war, the remains were removed to City Point National Cemetery and a freedman’s village was established there for newly freed African Americans. Strachan appealed to federal authorities for the return of his property and wrote, “This land is my homestead, the place of my birth. I have nothing left me now but my land, all my other property has been destroyed, even including my wearing apparel, and I am the husband of a delicate wife and the father of several children.” The government retained possession until Strachan proved his title in U.S. District Court. Strachan and his family returned to Point of Rocks in 1866 and he spent the rest of his life here.

(sidebar)
Early in 1864, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of all Federal armies, ordered advances throughout the Confederacy in the spring. On May 5, Union Gen. Benjamin F. Butler landed his Army of the James on Bermuda Hundred to operate against Richmond, Petersburg, and Confederate lines of supply. Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard countered Union advances against the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, Drewry’s Bluff, and Petersburg. In June 1864, he effectively “bottled up” Butler’s army behind Confederate and Federal fortifications across the Bermuda Hundred peninsula for the rest of the war.

(sidebar)
In June 1864, the first attacks on Petersburg were launched from Point of Rocks over a pontoon bridge across the Appomattox River. On March 27, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, accompanied by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia Grant, visited the Point of Rocks hospital fewer than three weeks before Lincoln was assassinated.

(sidebar)
During the siege of Petersburg, Clara Barton served at the Point of Rocks hospital as the superintendent of nurses. In 1881, she founded the American Red Cross and then served as the director until 1904. She wrote of conditions here, “The mercury above a hundred, the atmosphere and everything about one black with flies, the dust rolling away in clouds as far as the eye can penetrate, the ashy ground covered with scores of hospital tents shielding nearly all conceivable maladies that soldier flesh is heir to, and stretching on beyond the miles of bristling fortifications, entrenchments, and batteries encircling Petersburg—all ready to blaze.”

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Great Ford of the Mohawk

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New York, Oneida County, Utica
40 mile route taken by Gen. Herkimer Aug. 3-6, 1777 for the relief of Fort Stanwix. The Battle of Oriskany Aug. 6, between Herkimer's men and St. Leger with his Indians was the turning point of the Revolution.

1500 feet east of this spot was
the Great Ford of the Mohawk
protected in 1758 by the erection
of Old Fort Schuyler.
General Herkimer
used this ford August 5, 1777,
on his march to
the relief of Fort Stanwix.

(Forts, Castles • Native Americans • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Site of Old Fort Schuyler

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New York, Oneida County, Utica
40 mile route taken by Gen. Herkimer Aug. 3-6, 1777 for the relief of Fort Stanwix. The Battle of Oriskany Aug. 6, between Herkimer's men and St. Leger with his Indians was the turning point of the Revolution.

The site of Old Fort Schuyler,
which though abandoned at the time,
sheltered the wounded
General Herkimer
during the night of
August 6, 1777,
on his return journey
after the Battle of Oriskany.

(Forts, Castles • Native Americans • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

General Herkimer Camped Near This Spot.

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New York, Oneida County, Utica
40 mile route taken by Gen. Herkimer Aug. 3-6, 1777 for the relief of Fort Stanwix. The Battle of Oriskany Aug. 6, between Herkimer's men and St. Leger with his Indians was the turning point of the Revolution.

General Herkimer
camped near this spot
on the night of
August 4, 1777.
With him were his 800 men,
and 400 ox-carts
filled with supplies for
the relief of Fort Stanwix

(Native Americans • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Rhea County Courthouse

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Tennessee, Rhea County, Dayton

(left brick column near sidewalk)
Rhea County
Courthouse
1891

Site of
Scopes Evolution Trial
1925

National Historic
Landmark
1977
(right brick column near sidewalk)
Scopes Evolution Trial
Considered one of the most significant trials of the 20th century, The Scopes Evolution Trial featured a contest of issued argued by some of the most famous lawyers in America. Creation versus evolution, science versus religion, majority versus minority rights, role of parent and government in education were discussed at length.

(plaque on courthouse porch column)
Scopes Trial Trail
Rhea County Courthouse & Museum

This Romanesque Revival-Italian Villa Style courthouse was built in 1891, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976, and restored at the completion of the Scopes Trial Museum in 1978.

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

Rhea County Veteran's Memorial

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Tennessee, Rhea County, Dayton
In honor of the gallant men and women
of Rhea County
who participated in the struggle
to keep American mighty and free
WORLD WAR II (left plaque)
U.S. Army
Allen, Glen C. • Atkins, William M. • Baker, John C. • Bales, James H. • Blake, Arnold F. • Boles, James • Boles, Roy • Byron, Ellis Courtland • Byron, Jack E. • Clingan, David A. • Cobble, Harry L. • Cofer, William C. • Colvin, Charles E. • Cunningham, Joe R., Jr. • Davault, Warren G.H. • Dodson, Joe E. • Edington, Eugene • Edmondson, Chester • Elsea, Earl • Elsea, Harding • Evans, James F. • Filyaw, Tillman L. • Galbraith, James Lee • Gallagher, Johnny J. • Graham, Russell F. • Grasham, Earl • Hale, James O. • Harris, Coy • Heiskell, James Fred • Hickey, Claude D. • Hill, Haskell • Hood, Ralph F. • Kincannon, Alfred D. • Knight, Harold • Lamson, Dave • Lanier, James • Leuty, John Stanton • Lloyd, Wallace C. • McClendon, Eugene

(right plaque)
U.S. Army
McClendon, Bruce • McClure, Dallas T., Jr. • McCuiston, Elzie • McCuiston, George N. • Miller, Lawrence • Miller, William H. • Mincy, Otha D. • Mize, Carl E. • Montgomery, Wallace F. • Olham, Edward • Potter, Clyde M. • Reed, Robert W. • Revis, Jones • Reynold, LeRoy • Roddy, Seaborn M. • Runyan, James H. • Schlemmer, F.A. • Sedman, Leonard L. • Sharpe, John E. • Shreve, Joe F. • Smith, James C. "Dobie" • Tankersley, Thomas D. • Taylor, Ralph C. • Thomas, Issac A. • Villeneuve, Francis D. • Wilson, Jessie James • Wilkey, Arnold E. • Worthington, Arnold

U.S. Navy
Carney, William Henry, Jr. • Sneed, Kenneth Junior • Sneed, Wallace Franklin • Williams, James Ueal

U.S. Marine Corps
Day, Oral G. • Griffith, Gorden L. • Kincannon, D. Spence

(left column)
WORLD WAR I
Army
Brady, Fred W. • Bruce, Tom • Garrison, John • Gill, Alvin • Guth, Fred C. • Hudson, Leroy • Miller, Clint B. • Sharp, Charles R.

(right column)
KOREAN
Army
Shipley, Charles T. • Brooks, Raymond

VIETNAM
Army
Hayes, Jesse B. • Perry, Randall E. • Smith, David • Johnson, Bill J. • Pelfrey, Johnny L. • Maynor, Roy L. • Reed, Jackie K.

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Remnants of the University of Nashville

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Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville
These Ionic column capitals once adorned the Cumberland College building constructed in 1806 just south of downtown Nashville. Originally founded in December 1785 as Davidson Academy (the nation's 15th college), Cumberland's charter was altered in 1826, changing its name to University of Nashville. In 1875, the State Normal School was founded by the Peabody Education Fund and was affiliated with the University of Nashville until 1909 when it was incorporated as George Peabody College for Teachers. In 1914 the college moved to this campus and in 1979 merged with Vanderbilt University.

Peabody College, founded in 1875 as the State Normal College, was originally affiliated with the University of Nashville which traced its roots to Davidson Academy, founded in 1785. This Plaque was displayed on the Gate Keeper's lodge, built in 1889 near the main entrance to the old “South Campus,” located on Market Street (today 2nd Avenue) and home to the University of Nashville, Montgomery Bell Academy, Peabody Normal School, and, later, Vanderbilt University's Medical and Dental Departments.

(Education) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Post Rock Limestone and the Czechoslovakian Immigrant Experience

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Kansas, Russell County, Lucas

Innovative use of native Dakota sandstone, a unique geological formation found only in this region, by pioneer Czech settlers can still be seen in our fencelines, farmsteads, civic & vernacular architecture, bridges, backroads, & byways.

(Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Garden of Eden

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Kansas, Russell County, Lucas


This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places

by the United States
Department of the Interior

(Arts, Letters, Music • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Evinston Community Store and Post Office / History of Evinston, Florida

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Florida, Alachua County, Evinston
Evinston Community Store and Post Office
The Evinston community store, originally a warehouse, was built of heart pine in 1884 by W.P. Shettleworth. it was bought by Joseph Wolfenden, who first operated it as a store. The post office, established in 1882 was later moved into the building. The present store sits 100 feet south of its original location. It was moved in 1956 because of road paving. Located across from the railroad depot, it was a meeting place then as now. Numerous owners managed the store through the turn of the century. In 1909 H.D. Wood and Robert Evins bought the store. The later partnership of Wood and Swink, in 1934, is still indicated on the store front. Fred Wood became postmaster of Evinston in 1934 and served for 44 years, longer than any other postmaster in Florida. Still containing original post office boxes and equipment, this is one of the few remaining country store-post offices. In 1977, the country store was used as a set for the movie adaptation of Marjorie Rawlings' short story Gal Young'un.

History of Evinston, Florida
The community of Evinston, Florida, situated on the Alachua-Marion County border, is part of the Spanish Arredondo Grant of 1817. A grant for this land was received from Arrendondo by N. Brush who later sold two sections to the Evins family of South Carolina. Captain W. D. Evins, of this family, had large land holdings here west of Orange Lake, and gave the right of way for the narrow gauge Florida Southern Railroad in 1882. The station was given the name Evinston and the depot was built in 1884. At that time the present country store and post office were established. The community once consisted of two other stores, a schoolhouse, 3 churches, a blacksmith shop, 2 packing houses and a grist mill. This area was known for orange groves until the 1890's freezes. Agricultural crops and cattle were and are still raised here. In 1956, the depot was moved and the railroad discontinued passenger service. Freight service continued until the tracks were removed in 1982. The community park was established in 1909 by J.L. Wolfenden, W.P. Shettleworth and F.B. Hester and continues to serve as a pleasure to the residents, many of whom are direct descendants of the original families.



(Agriculture • Communications • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Orchards (1890 - 1970)

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Arizona, Yavapai County, Sedona
Fruit growing played a significant role in the early Sedona economy. Over time, settlers constructed ditches, flumes, pipelines, reservoirs, and water wheels to provide irrigation to their gardens and eventually to their larger orchards.

Apples and peaches became the primary orchard crops. The Jordan orchard flanked both sides of this street and grew to almost 1500 fruit trees. Flagstaff and the mining town of Jerome provided markets for fruit, as did far away places. Oak Creek fruit was shipped to Seattle, San Francisco, Minnesota and even to American troops during World War II.

Before the Jordans, the Pendleys, Thompsons, Purtymuns, and others developed orchards along Oak Creek. Henry Schuerman grew apples, peaches, apricots, pears, quinces and grapes complete with a vineyard for making wines in the German style of his heritage. Roadside fruit stands popped up along the canyon road after it paved in the 1930.

(Agriculture) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Van Deren Ranch

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Arizona, Yavapai County, Sedona
Lee Van Deren, cattleman, arrived to put his children in the new Sedona school opened in 1910. Ranching was a major part of Sedona’s early economy. Round ups and cattle drives were a twice a year occurrence for ranchers when moving their herds from winter to summer grazing allotments.

About 1924, Lee’s son, Earl, bought 40 acres along the west side of this road and with hard work soon paid off the property and became a successful rancher.

Earl occasionally added to his income by fighting fires for the Forest Service and providing cattle, horses and wagons for use in movies being made in and around Sedona.

But after WWII, Earl saw Sedona changing with an influx of tourists and new residents. He could see the end of ranching as he knew it so he sold out and moved to Montana. The first street west of here is named for the Van Deren Family.

(Agriculture • Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Andrew Jackson Myers

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California, San Diego County, Oceanside
On this site is the former homestead of the founder of Oceanside, Andrew Jackson (A.J.) Myers. A native of La Salle County Illinois, A. J. Myers was born in 1840, and lived for a time in San Joaquin County, California in 1852. He served in the military during the Civil War. In the late 1880's, he returned to California and lived in the San Luis Rey Township in 1881, near the Mission San Luis Rey.

In 1882, A.J. Myers moved on the land embracing the original town site of Oceanside. A patent for the land establishing the town site was issued in 1883 by the Federal government. Myers founded the Oceanside Water Company, which was critical to the development of early Oceanside. Myers and his wife Sophia and 4 of their 9 children are buried in the San Luis Rey Cemetery. Andrew Jackson Myers was known throughout San Diego County for his active encouragement, and benefits to the people of this community.

(Notable Persons • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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