This Memorial Commemorates The Act Of...

This Memorial Commemorates the act of Lieutenant Christopher Hussey Of the Montgomery Guards and Private John Latham of the Washington Volunteers, the first volunteer regiment of the State of Georgia.

While under fire during the bombardment of April 11,1862, they ...

Home of Governor L.G. Hardman

(1856-1937)

Lamartine Griffin Hardman was governor of Georgia from 1927 to 1931. A physician, businessman, manufacturer, and farmer, Hardman served in the Georgia house and senate before becoming governor. In the state legislature, Hardman sponsored legislation that created the State Board ...

The world's first automobile fatality

happened here on 31 August 1869

Shortly after 8:00pm that evening a pioneering steam carriage designed and built by William Parsons, the Third Earl of Rosse, left the castle gates and drove at walking pace along Oxmantown Mall before turning the ...

United States Flag Raised Over Alabama Capitol

Apr. 12, 1865

MG J.H.Wilson’s Cavalry Corps raised U.S. flag over Alabama’s and Confederacy’s first Capitol on 4/12/65, three days after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Wilson had defeated LTG N.B. Forrest’s depleted and vastly outnumbered troops at the Confederate Arsenal city ...

Treaty of Dumplin Creek

The only treaty made by the state of Franklin was signed here after some negotiation. Commissioners were John Sevier, Alexander Outlaw, and Daniel Kennedy. Signatory Cherokee chiefs were the King of the Cherokees, Ancoo of Chota, Abraham of Chilhowee, The ...

Peaks of Otter Road

This road was followed by General Hunter when he crossed the Blue Ridge at the Peaks of Otter and came to Bedford en route to Lynchburg, June 16, 1864.

Marker is at the intersection of Peaks Street (Virginia Route 43) and ...

Solar Refinery

Side A:

Oil became a valuable resource in Ohio when significant quantities were discovered in Lima in 1885. The discovery brought an economic boom to Lima and northwest Ohio. News of the Lima oil field spread, attracting the attention of John ...

Desegregation of Texas High Schools

The State of Texas instituted a public school system for African-American students during reconstruction. This segregation of students was further established through the 1896 United States Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which established the legality of the doctrine, ...

Maud Anna Berry Smith Fuller

One of Austin's most revered African American civic and religious leaders, Maud Anna Berry Smith Fuller is best remembered for her generosity, inspirational speeches, Baptist missionary activity, teaching abilities, and compassion for those less fortunate than herself.

The daughter of Hugh ...

Executive Office Building

Originally

State, War, and Navy Departments

Constructed 1871-1888

South Wing

Ground broken June 1871

Completed December 1875

East Wing

Ground broken July 1872

Completed April 1879

North Wing

Ground broken July 1879

Completed December 1882

West and Central Wings

Ground broken March 1884

Completed January 1888

Total construction time 17 years and 4 months

On this ...