I Dream of Jeannie

I Dream of Jeannie was part of Cocoa Beach when a television sitcom ran from 1965 to 1970 starring Barbara Eden as a 2000 year old female genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut. The TV series was set in ...

Columbus Area Business Hall of Fame

Inducted 2010

Edgar Howard

Edgar Howard had a career in the newspaper business that spanned more than 75 years. After a career in various jobs within newspapers, he bought the newspaper in Papillion in 1883 and established a paper in ...

Warm, Sincere Friendship

Quincy's Orville Hickman Browning was Lincoln's friend, advisor, and confidant. According to historian David Donald, Lincoln considered Browning an old friend "whom he could absolutely trust. He knew the Illinois senator would never betray a confidence." The two men seemed ...

Lincoln's Confidante

Quincy's Eliza Caldwell Browning and Abraham Lincoln first met in 1836. She was a new bride, and he had just received his law license. When Eliza discovered Lincoln's "great merits," the two established an easy rapport. Their nearly thirty-year friendship ...

The Jacob Ruff House, ca. 1829

Historic Lexington

This house is a fine example of the Valley Federal style with elegant detailing including the fanlight over the front door and a molded brick cornice. When the streets were lowered in 1851, the entrance was reoriented to the ...

The Fame of Stonewall Jackson

Field Marshal the Right Honorable Viscount Wolseley, K.P., G.C.B., G.M., G.C.M.G.

British soldier of the highest rank,

says:

“The fame of Stonewall Jackson is no longer the exclusive property of Virginia and the South; it has become the birthright of every man ...

Site of Cow Ford

This narrow part of the St. Johns River, near a clear freshwater spring was a crossing point for Indians and early travelers. The Indian name Wacca Pilatka, meaning "Cow's Crossing", was shortened by the English to Cow Ford, and Jacksonville ...

Sigma Nu Fraternity

Founded at Virginia Military Institute January 1, 1869

on a rock ledge formerly located 65 yards north west of this spot

Cadet Founders

James Frank Hopkins

Greenfield Quarles

James McIlvaine Riley

Erected August 25, 1935 during the Twenty-seventh Biennial Grand Chapter

Marker is on Letcher Avenue, on ...

Battle of Philippi

Talbott's Hill

(Preface):In the spring of 1861, Union forces rushed into northwestern Virginia to secure the vital Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, protect important turnpikes, and support Unionists against Confederates. The two sides fought numerous engagements between June and December. They included ...

Fort Mulligan

Portecting Looney's Creek (Petersburg)

Union Col. James A. Mulligan, 23rd Illinois Infantry, supervised the construction of Fort Mulligan between August and December 1863. Known locally as Fort Hill, the work protected the South Branch Valley and its Unionist residents and also ...