Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery World War Memorial Avenue of T

This Avenue of Trees,

preserved by

General Thomas Mifflin Chapter

D.A.R.

in memory of soldiers

of Juniata County who

gave their lives in the

World War

Dedicated November 11, 1940

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William de la Barre

After the Washburn A Mill explosion in 1878, a young Vienna-born engineer called on owner Cadwallader C. Washburn with a dust-collecting device that he said would prevent such accidents. Washburn hired him to oversee rebuilding the A Mill. William de ...

Zion Poplars Baptist Church

Zion Poplars Baptist Church houses one of the oldest independent African-American congregations in Gloucester County. It is named for seven united poplar trees under which the founding members first met for worship in 1866. The church was erected here in ...

North Bloomfield School

1872-73

Built at a cost of some 3,000 dollars, modeled after schoolhouses at nearby Sebastopol and Sweetland, it served the community until closed in 1941. Acquired from Washington School District, Nevada County, for public use and display. Restoration commenced in 1973 ...

North Bloomfield Drain Tunnel

One of the great engineering feats in Nevada County hydraulic mining history was the drilling of the 7,874 foot drain tunnel, nearly 200 feet below you.

This project was engineered by Hamilton Smith.

Eight vertical shafts of up to 200 feet in ...

66 Bull Street The John Cart House

Built in 1817 by John Cart, a

"measurer of lumber", this house

is a typical Charleston single house

with western exposure piazzas

extending the length of the house,

upstairs and down. Prior to the

20th century, a body of tidewater ...

A Behemoth in the Field

240mm T1 Gun, Watervleit Arsenal, New York, c. 1950, serial number 1.

280mm T72 Gun Carriage, Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts, c. 1952. WM 87.31.7 a,b

The 240mm gun provided a bridge between conventional cannons and atomic cannons. In November 1944 the U.S. Army ...

Burch's Mill:

South Carolina’s First Civil War Nears It’s End

In South Carolina, the Revolutionary War had many of the characteristics of a civil war, with those who supported independence, (the Whigs or Patriots) fighting against neighbors and kinsfolk who remained loyal to ...

Ira Hobart Evans

April 11, 1844 - April 19, 1922

Born in New Hampshire, Ira H. Evans grew up in Vermont. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army, attaining the rank of Major. He received the Congressional Medal of Honor and ...

Anton F. and Mary Kubicek Duplex

Anton F. and Mary Kubicek Duplex

1926

is listed in the State Register of Historic Places

Marker is on Rutledge Street, on the right when traveling west.

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