History of Greenville-Bond County

Illinois Confederacy Indians roamed this prairie land, rich in game, which became Illinois County of Virginia. Ceded in 1784 to the United States it was successively included in the Northwest, Indiana; and in 1809, Illinois Territory. Formed in 1817, Bond ...

In Memory of the Bravery of Our Pioneer Officers

Scene of the robbery of two coaches of the Pioneer Stage Line running between Virginia City, Nevada, and Sacramento, California, on the night of June 30, 1864, at about ten o’clock. Perpetrated by a gang of fourteen men, eight sacks ...

Camp Bartow

Battle of Greenbrier River

In August 1861, Confederate soldiers under Gen. Henry R. Jackson of Georgia erected Camp Bartow here. Fortifications on these hills guarded a disputed "middle ground" between Union and Confederate forces on the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike. The defenses ...

Annie and Bernard Maybeck House

Bernard Maybeck, Architect

City of Berkeley Landmarks

designated in 1990

In 1901 architect Bernard Maybeck purchased ten acres of land here in La Loma Park. He built a sprawling brown shingle home for his family down the street in 1909 and subdivided the ...

Battle of Bennington

Second Engagement

At this point occurred the defeat of Colonel

Breyman, who commanded a force of 600 men sent

by General Burgoyne to reinforce Colonel Baum.

Colonel Seth Warner and his regiment of Vermont

Rangers "Green Mountain Boys" distinguished

themselves ...

The Bement Connection

A pocket watch is meant to be used with a chain. Three styles were popular: T-bar, which slips through a vest buttonhole; spring ring, which attaches to a belt loop; and fob. Lincoln’s pocket watch shown here has a shorter ...

Battle of Bennington

First Engagement

General John Stark with New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts Militia defeated and captured an expeditionary force sent by General Burgoyne and commanded by Colonel Baum. This was one of the first decisive victories in the War of the Revolution.

Marker ...

Minahan's Tomb

Overlooking Riverside Drive...

and the Fox River Trail is the tomb of Dr. William Edward Minahan, who died in the sinking of the Titanic. William had four brothers who were also doctors, and his oldest brother, Robert, was also a lawyer ...

Buford Battleground

[Front]

In order that all may continue to share the sentiments of that group of patriotic citizens of Lancaster County who erected a monument here on June 2, 1860 the inscriptions of this memorial are the same as those on ...

Josiah B. Scovell

One half mile south of this point lie three islands, known as numbers 1, 2, & 3, in the St. Louis River, which were settled by Josiah Boardman Scovell, original U.S. patentee in 1881, who retained ownership for the balance ...