Early Aviation History in Vancouver

Pearson Field

Even before the advent of a U.S. Army Air Service field at Vancouver Barracks in 1921 and the eventual dedication of “Pearson Field” in 1925, aviation had early hallmarks at Vancouver Barracks.

As part of the 1905 Lewis and Clark ...

Susie Rayos Marmon - Ga-wa goo maa (Early Riser)

1877-1988

Educated at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania under the U.S. policy of acculturating Indian children through school and removal from their homelands, Susie was instrumental in bringing education back to Laguna. A lifelong teacher, oral historian, and storyteller, Susie ...

Early History of Waterloo

1795 1927

350 feet west of this spot, Zalmon Disbrow, in 1795 first began clearing the forest on what was later the Dr. Gardner Welles Farm, military lot 97. Sept, 30, 1796 the first stage left Utica for Geneva, passing here ...

Earliest Courthouse

Three room adobe, seat of law and justice when Lincoln County was established, 1869. Routine issuing of warrants and records, trials for crimes large and small, all issued from it. Now called Priest's House, belongs with neighboring church.

Marker is on ...

Pearl Harbor Square

Memorialized By

Bayanihan Club of Union

“Lest We Forget”

December 7, 1941

To honor our service men and women

who sacrificed so much

“The Day Of Infamy”

when 360 Japanese planes descended on Americans

at Pearl Harbor killing 2400 and wounding 1200.

Local Survivors:

John Adams * Edward ...

Early Grocery Stores

circa 1897

Although there has been a structure on this site since at least 1885, this building was erected about 1897. From the late 19th to the middle 20th century, most of DeLand's grocery stores were located along Woodland Blvd. Bushnell, ...

Pearl Harbor Survivors Association

In Memoriam

[Front]:

To those members of the Armed Forces of the United States who served at Pearl Harbor and other military installations on the island of Oahu during the Japanese attack on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, to perpetuate the memory ...

Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge

[ south side of bridge ]

In Memoriam

Remember Pearl Harbor

Keep America Alert!

To Those

Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice

During The Attack On Pearl Harbor

07:55 AM, 7 December 1941

Dedicated By

The Leopoldville Memorial Association

And The Waterbury Veterans

Memorial Committee On December 7, 1998

[ emblem on the ...

Earliest Known Public High School for African Americans in Virgi

Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg established a public school system in 1868, two years before the state’s mandate. Colored Elementary School #1 was conducted in the old church building of the African Baptist Church, which stood to your left. The building had been ...

Early Peanut Crop

One mile northwest Dr. Matthew Harris grew the first commercial crop of peanuts in the United States, according to tradition, in or soon after 1842.

Marker is on South County Drive (U.S. 460) near George Town Road (Virginia Route 615), on ...