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The Fenton History Center will host a free event Sunday, July 13, to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. Sunday’s commemoration will be held from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. on the ...
Armies during the Civil War used Fort Dumpling, which is about a mile from Fort Adams, as a target to test cannons. Carlson says she might donate it to the Jamestown Historical Society or the library.
See, hear and touch the Civil War at the Fenton History Center’s Blue and Gray 2014 this weekend. Re-enactors will be camping in Fenton Park teaching about the everyday life of a Union soldier from ...
Man fired Civil War cannon at his neighbors for EIGHT DAYS during dispute. Brian Malta, 52, allegedly repeatedly fired a cannon at his Jamestown, New York neighbor for more than a week ...
Jamestown Rediscovery senior staff archaeologist Mary Anna Hartley ... summer when the team was clearing soil from a Confederate moat that had been constructed on site during the American Civil War.
Jamestown, Tennessee, a rural mountain town, is the county seat for Fentress County and the perfect place to raise a family. ... the long hunters, civil war unrest, ...
By the time Angela was brought to Jamestown’s muddy shores in 1619, she had survived war and capture in West Africa, a forced march of more than 100 miles to the sea, a miserable Portuguese ...
Facing backlash from the sale following the Civil War, McKissick fled to Georgia while Ervin James stayed put, named this property “Jamestown,” and created a self-sustained Black community ...
They called him “the richest man in Virginia,” and before the Civil War, he probably was. He was William Orgain Allen, ... Jamestown Island and other tracts totaling 26,000 acres.