The World's Most Beautiful Places
Barn – Battlefield Park – Richmond Kentucky. Site of the Battle of Richmond between the Union and the Confederacy, during the American Civil War. Aug 29, 1862 – Aug 30, 1862. The battle involved the troops Major General Edmund Kirby Smith against those of Union Major General William “Bull” Nelson.
A traditional split rail fence at Camp Nelson National Monument, which was originally named Camp Nelson War Heritage Park. Camp Nelson was established in 1863 as a supply depot, and recruitment point for the Union Army during the Civil War, particularly related to Union activities against the Confederacy in Eastern Tennessee. The fort also played a part in other events during the war, including supplying Ulysses S. Grant’s march on Atlanta with horses and other necessities.
The camp is named after Major General William “Bull” Nelson.
A marker for the Lincoln Highway, found in Sugarhouse, Utah, a neighborhood in Salt Lake City. The Lincoln Highway was the first transcontinental highway in the United States, and the first built specifically for the automobile. The Lincoln Highway runs coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City west to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. Its total original length upon completion in 1913 was 3,389 miles. The concrete highway marker in the picture, is one of 3,000 erected along the highway by Boy Scout troops in 1928. The highway is named after Abraham Lincoln, the 19th president of the United States. He is best known for his time in office during the Civil War, and the formal freeing of the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.