Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Civil War Trust's Civil War Discovery Trail is a heritage tourism program that links more than 600 U.S. Civil War sites in more than 30 states. The program is one of the White House Millennium Council 's sixteen flagship National Millennium Trails .
Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park is a Florida State Park in the Osceola National Forest, near the town of Olustee. The site of Florida's largest Civil War battle, the Battle of Olustee. The park is located 50 miles (80 km) west of Jacksonville and 15 miles (24 km) east of Lake City, on U.S. 90. It was one of the first parks in the ...
The North Carolina Civil War Trails Program chapter includes more than 700 sites. This chapter was dedicated on the Bentonville Battlefield on March 14, 2005. [4] The main focus of the Trails program is a driving tour of the key places of the 1865 Carolinas Campaign, which culminated in the Battle of Bentonville.
The trail helps get visitors to Bentonville Battlefield out of their cars and onto the ground where Union and Confederate soldiers fought in March 1865.
At a gathering on the trail Dec. 16, Dutchess County Executive William F.X. O’Neil unveiled the trail's new name and announced it is now open for public use year-round.
The national battlefield was established through the efforts of both private individuals, the Stones River Battlefield and Park Association, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway (which became part of CSX Transportation through several mergers), and a 1927 act of Congress authorizing a national military park under the jurisdiction of the War Department.
Church services were held there before the Puce Baptist Church was built. It was also a terminal stop on the Underground Railroad. Walls and his family stayed in Canada after the American Civil War. [11] Queen's Bush – Mapleton. [1] Beginning in 1820, African American pioneers settled in the open lands of Queen's Bush.
Conway TWT, flickr Arkansas is luring bikers and history buffs to the state by marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with a new Heritage Trail created to make battle sites easily ...