Branch Bank of the State of Georgia at Eatonton

In the Dec. 4, 1818 Georgia Journal directors of the Bank of the State of Georgia at Savannah announced a meeting on Jan. 1, 1819 to appoint 7 directors and a cashier for the branches established at Eatonton and Greensborough. ...

Landsford Canal

A vital link in South Carolina's internal improvements program of the 1820's, the canal stands as a monument to the following men who typified the South Carolina spirit during this first great era of public works building:

William R. Davie, ...

Fourth New Jersey Infantry Appreciation to Somerville

To the citizens of

Sommerville

in appreciation of their

hospitality in 1917 to the

Fourth New Jersey Infantry.

We also speak for those who sleep in France.

Presented by the

Fourth New Jersey Infantry Post

Number Fifty One, American Legion,

Decoration Day, 1920.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First movement by steam on a railroad in New Jersey

First movement by steam on a railroad in the state of New Jersey, November 12, 1831, by the original locomotive "John Bull" now deposited in the United States National Museum at Washington. The first piece of railroad track in New ...

Battle of Perryville

October 8, 1862

Here 16,00 Confederates under

General Braxton Bragg

fought 22,000 Federals under

General Don Carlos Buell.

Bragg, facing superior forces,

withdrew.Union casualties 4211;

Confederate, 3396.

Marker is on West 2nd Street (U.S. 150) near Buell Street (U.S. 68), ...

Town Hall, Jail, and Fire Station

Circa 1922

Springboro's town hall and town jail occupied this site for nearly 100 years. This was also the site of the town's first fire station. According to local history, this building was built circa 1922 by volunteers with donated materials ...

Headquarters, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, U. S. Army

The splendid natural harbor of Hampton Roads served the nation as a military port of embarkation in the Spanish American War and two World Wars. In World War 1, headquarters were set up at Newport News on July 11, 1917, ...

Curtiss Flying School

Aviation pioneer Glenn H. Curtiss sponsored the Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station on a 20-acre tract east of Newport News Boat Harbor in the fall of 1915 with Capt. Thomas Scott Baldwin as head. Many civilian students, including Canadians, later became ...

The Orchards of Door County

In 1858 Joseph Zettel, a native of Switzerland, acquired the farm directly south of this Station and established the first commercial orchard on the Door Peninsula. The high yields and quality of his fruit aroused the interest of Emmett S. ...

Health and Civic Welfare

Restoring the Vision ... Preserving the Legacy

"The opportunies which were at hand in the development of the river and the region were being seized upon by our people with renewed courage and confidence.

We now kow that we couldn't be ...