John Brown Fort

Here is a building with a curious past. Since its construction in 1848, it has been vandalized, dismantled, and moved four times - all because of its fame as John Brown's stronghold.

The Fort's "Movements"

1848 Built as fire-engine house for ...

Bell XP-59A Jet Aircraft

On Oct. 2, 1942, a Bell XP-59A Aircraft powered by Twin General Electric Type 1-A Engines introduced Jet Flight to America. This new age began here at Edwards Air Force Base as the XP-59A lifted from Rogers Dry Lake with ...

Frances Goodrich

- 1856 - 1944 -

Missionary and teacher, Her Allanstand Cottage Industries promote the revival of Appalachian handicrafts. Lived here.

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Walkway of Flags

1994

Flags have been important to the history of Flagstaff. It was a pine tree used as a flag staff that gave the town its name when Old Glory was flown at a spring (that later became the site of Flagstaff) ...

The Battle of Brandy Station

Rooney Lee's Fighting Retreat

The Federal forces of Brig. Gen. John Buford, Brig. Gen. David Gregg, and Col. Thomas Devin (whose command held the area around St. James Church) had almost encircled the Confederates, though none of the Union commanders had ...

Church of the Nativity

1888-1930

In 1888, at the insistence of a group of Catholic

Laymen, The First Catholic Church in Flagstaff was built of brick on the south side of town. It was moved in 1911 to a temporary site just west of and ...

Site of the Kessing Building

On this site, the first frame building in Tehachapi was built by Mary and Bernard Kessing. They replaced the original wooden building in 1905 with a beautiful brick building named the Kessing Building, which was destroyed in the 1952 earthquake. ...

Site of Planters Electric Membership Corporation Organizational

On August 5, 1936, an organizational meeting of the Planters Electric Membership Corporation was held in the Bellevue Plantation commissary building. Those present and elected to become officers were Porter W.

Carswell, President; Frank M. Cates, Vice-President; Joel Chappell, Secretary-Treasurer; and ...

Capitol of State of Franklin

This is a replica of the building which is believed to have served as the capitol of the State of Franklin from 1785 until 1788 and which originally stood near the intersection of Main and Depot Streets. At constitutional conventions ...

Pioneer Cemetery Armed Forces Memorial

In memory of

those Westerville area

men and women who

died while

serving their country

during war time.

Dedicated Nov 11, 1986

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