Original Presbyterian Meeting House

This wall is an adaptation of what is believed to be, after through archaeological research sponsored by Historic Savannah Foundation, the original Presbyterian Meeting House, now the Independent Presbyterian Church, housed on the land granted by King George II. These ...

Balthrope

Boldrup

Preface: Newport News was a small community located in Warwick County until late in the 19th century. Established as a town in 1880, it was incorporated as a city in 1896. Warwick County, one of the eight original Virginia shires ...

The Bob Marshall Wilderness Country

North of here lies the second largest wilderness in the lower 48 states. Made up of the Bob Marshall, Scapegoat and Great Bear wilderness areas, its north end abuts Glacier National Park, creating a continuous corridor of unspoiled mountains and ...

Oscar D. Boggess Homestead / Boggess Quarry

Side A: Oscar D. Boggess Homestead

Oscar D. Boggess (1832-1907) was born in Virginia, the son of a slave and her master. He and his family were granted freedom in the will of his father and master. The will was contested ...

A Bateau Pole

This pole is a reproduction of the poles used by Bateau polemen. The crew of a Bateau consisted of two polemen, who walked on boards running the length of the boat on either side and a steersman who used a ...

Indiantown Presbyterian Church: “Disarm in the Most Rigid Manner

After Francis Marion’s initial victories in August and early September 1780, British military authorities in South Carolina moved to eliminate the threat of an insurgency in Williamsburg District. Lord Cornwallis ordered Maj. James Wemyss to sweep through the area with ...

Mary McLeod Bethune

1875–1955 Let her works praise her.

I leave you love. • I leave you hope. • I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. • I leave you a thirst for education. • I leave you a ...

And It Became Land

Look out across the Smoky Mountains landscape.

How did this land come to be?

They carefully got all the mud and they laid it out on the rocks. And when it was dry enough, Grandfather threw it out into the water, and ...

Balloon Landing, 1861

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On April 20, 1861, only days after the Civil War began at Fort Sumter, scientist and aeronaut T.S.C. Lowe (1832-1913) landed the Enterprise, a large gas balloon, on a nearby farm. Lowe was on a test flight in preparation for ...

Huntersville Jail / Presbyterian Church

Huntersville JailHuntersville was the county seat of Pocahontas, 1821-1891. Jail was built about 1878 of white Medina sandstone and considered almost an escape-proof structure. It was used until county seat was moved to Marlinton in 1891.

Presbyterian ChurchThe Huntersville Presbyterian Church ...