Black Horse Cavalry

The Black Horse Cavalry was conceived at a gathering of Warrenton lawyers in 1858 and was among the local militia companies called to active duty by Governor Henry Wise in 1959. The Black Horse led a successful charge against Union ...

Wynnton School Library

Erected in 1843 as Wynnton Academy, the present

WYNNTON SCHOOL LIBRARY

is the oldest such building in continuous use as a school facility in the State of Georgia. This historic site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

This ...

Booker T. Washington High School

Booker T. Washington High School

1916 - 1974

From the day it opened its doors in 1916 Booker T. Washington High School played a major roll in the life of

Columbia's black community. Originally a school with all grades, eventually it ...

The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad

The Burlington & Missouri River Railroad entered Nebraska at Plattsmouth in 1870 and built west to join the Union Pacific at Kearney Junction (now Kearney city) on September 3, 1872. The railroad bridge into Kearney was used for 104 ...

Dobytown

Following the 1848 establishment of Fort Kearny two miles east of here and the later expansion of overland commerce and emigration, the small commercial center of Kearney City was established here in 1859. The town's more common name, Dobytown, was ...

Battle Above the Clouds

Hooker's troops

drove the Confederates

from Lookout Mountain

On November 24, 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the Union commander, ordered Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's forces to storm Lookout Mountain. Hooker's men swept up the western slope of the mountain from your left, ...

Jack M. Campbell Highway

Taos to Tierra Amarilla

This road passes through some of the most spectacular scenery in the American Southwest. It is a key section of the east - west highway which brings visitors to this region from throughout the United States. Since ...

Lime Creek Burn 1879

This man-caused forest fire burned 26,000 acres consuming approximately 150,000,000 board-feet of timber. Reforestation by direct seeding and planting of seedling trees was started in 1911 and continues today.

The project was financed by federal funds and contributions from the conservation-minded ...

Great Barrington World War I Monument

Erected November 11th 1936

By the School Children

Of Great Barrington and Housatonic

In Honor of the 359 Men and Women

Who Served Their Country

In the World War.

Abel, Harrison G. • Ackerman, Arthur P. • Adams, Ernest W. • Alcott, Bruce • Alcott, ...

First Court House of Berkshire County

Near this spot stood the first court house of Berkshire County erected 1764.

Here August 16, 1774 occurred the first open resistance to British rule in America

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 7) and Castle Street, ...