Mississippi, Warren County, Vicksburg
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President Confederate States
and Commander-in-Chief
Cadet U.S. Military Academy 1821
2nd Lt. 1st U.S. Infantry July 1, 1828
1st Lieut. Dragoons March 4, 1833
Adjt. Aug. 30, 1833 to Feb. 3, 1834
Resigned June 30, 1835
Col. 1st Miss. Rifles July 18, 1846
Hon. Mustered out July 12, 1847
Sec. of War March 7, 1853-March 6, 1857
In Honor of
the Defenders
of Vicksburg
(Politics • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
President Confederate Statesand Commander-in-Chief
Cadet U.S. Military Academy 1821
2nd Lt. 1st U.S. Infantry July 1, 1828
1st Lieut. Dragoons March 4, 1833
Adjt. Aug. 30, 1833 to Feb. 3, 1834
Resigned June 30, 1835
Col. 1st Miss. Rifles July 18, 1846
Hon. Mustered out July 12, 1847
Sec. of War March 7, 1853-March 6, 1857
In Honor of
the Defenders
of Vicksburg
(Politics • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman C.S.A.
Dairies (or milk houses, as they were more commonly called in the Mid-Atlantic region) were one-room structures constructed two to three feet below grade for coolness. They had brick or stone floors and plastered or whitewashed ceilings and interior walls. They featured long horizontal openings, placed high up under wide eaves. These louvered "windows" allowed for cross-ventilation for passive cooling and wires or shutters could be used to open or close them as the sun moved during the day. Mid-Atlantic dairies had linen, cheesecloth, or gauze screens to keep out insects.
“My library,” Enoch Pratt said, “shall be for all, rich and poor without distinction of race or color, who, when properly accredited, can take out the books if they will handle them carefully and return them.” In 1886, with the opening of the central library and four branch libraries, the Enoch Pratt Free Library became the first citywide library system in the country.
In Honor of
Named Oak Grove because of its original location in a grove of Oak trees, the history of the church began with a small group of "freed" blacks in 1863. Mary C. and Ella J. Williams of Williams plantation permitted the members to use a parcel of the plantation land to construct a Bush Arbor. Oak Grove became a member of the Friendship District Association through the efforts of its first pastor, Alexander Blue. The Williamses deeded 2.8 acres to the church on December 10, 1885. The present church building is the fifth constructed on the original site.
Near this location were the farms of John Alston (1794-1872) and John Hunn (1818-1894), cousins who shared the Quaker faith and were well documented operatives on Delaware's Underground Railroad. John Alston sometimes employed fugitives as laborers on his farm and in 1850, sheltered a young woman named Molly who was later captured there by bounty hunters. In his diaries, Alston wrote this prayer, "Enable me to keep my heart and house open to receive thy servants that they may rest in their travels." The most notable act of civil disobedience to take place at Hunn's farm occurred in December 1845 when Samuel D. Burris, a free African American man from Kent County, DE led a group of twelve fugitives escaping from Queen Anne's County, MD to Hunn's farm. Pursued by bounty hunters on their way north to freedom, the group included Samuel and Emeline Hawkins, along with their six children. For abetting their escape, an illegal activity according to the laws of the time, Hunn was sued by the owners and severely fined. The expense caused Hunn to lose his farm and other assets. He continued with his Underground Railroad activities in Delaware until the outbreak of the Civil War. After the Union Navy captured the South Carolina Sea Island in 1862, Hunn relocated there, and continued his work aiding the newly freed. In 1872 Hunn wrote, "I ask no other reward for any efforts made by me in the cause than to feel I have been of service to my fellow-men."
Site of Woodenware Community
This site of the Lombard Ferry was one of the most used crossings on the Green River, lasting from about 1843 into the early 1900s. First established by mountain men, it was operated by Mormons in the 1850s during the peak years of the westward emigration. 
