Big Walnut Creek Flood of Jan-Feb 1959

Historical Flood Mark, Jan.-Feb. 1959.

“Encroachment on flood plains, such as artificial fill, reduces the flood-carrying capacity, increases the flood heights of streams, and increases flood hazards in areas beyond the encroachment itself. One aspect of flood plain management involves balancing ...

Buffalo Soldier Memorial

Section 1

Top Tablet

United States Army

The Chief of Staff

October 27, 2000

The Junction City - Fort Riley Community and the Buffalo Soldiers

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Junction City-Fort Riley community and the Buffalo Soldiers, present and past, ...

“Salute of Arms”

On April 12, 1865, Union Brig. Gen. Joshua Chamberlain watched the distant ridge as the Confederates prepared for the surrender. They formed into column, marched into the valley, then up the Richmond-Lynchburg Stage Road toward the village. As the column ...

36th Airlift Squadron Memorial

36 ALS

In memory of our thirteen airmen who lost their lives 30 November 1992

65-0255

Capt Edward D Parent Jr • Capt Banks E Wilkinson • Capt Kevin M Maquire 8ALS • 1st Lt Edward H Hoyle III • TSgt Peter L ...

Site of Byron Jackson’s First Machine Shop

Byron Jackson (1841-1921) was an inventor and manufacturer of farm equipment and pumps. His name endures on pumps used in agriculture, petroleum, mining, power generations and water supply. Born in Ohio, Jackson moved to Woodland with his parents in 1860. ...

Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial

Dedicated to

the Veterans of Foreign Wars

They made

the supreme sacrifice

so that we may

live in peace and freedom

Forget them not.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Dr. George Moffit Patrick

A volunteer at Anahuac, 1832. Member of the Consultation, 1835. Commander of the schooner “Flash”, 1836. Most Worshipful Grand Master Gran (Masonic) Lodge of Texas, 1848-49. Born in Virginia, September 30, 1801. Died in Grimes County, Texas June 28, 1889.

His ...

Twelfth Army Corps

Crawford's Brigade Williams' Division

U.S.A.

Twelfth Army Corps

Crawford's Brigade Williams' Division.

Brig. General Samuel W. Crawford, Commanding.

Organization.

10th Maine, 28th New York, 46th, 124th,

125th and 128th Pennsylvania Infantry.

September 17, 1862.

Crawford's Brigade advanced from Line's Farm, at daybreak, on the right of Williams' Division. The ...

Freedom Over Slavery

Dedicated to all who chose

freedom over slavery

[Dedicated] May 1978

Marker is at the intersection of Market Street (Ohio Route 7) and Newport Drive, on the left when traveling north on Market Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The General Assembly of Virginia

On the site of this

building

The General Assembly

of Virginia

met from 1780 to 1788

and

it was from here that the

Assembly was driven

in 1781

by the news of the approach

of the British Army

Placed in 1915 by the City of Richmond

at the request of the Commonwealth ...