Lowell Women Firefighters

?On July 11, 1972, three women joined the ranks of the Lowell Volunteer Fire Department, setting a precedent for official recognition of women firefighters in Wisconsin. The Lowell women firefighters were conferred all the voting rights and office holding privileges ...

Last Indian-Settler Conflict

A series of conflicts between settlers and Native Americans, including the French and Indian War, the Cherokee War, and Pontiac’s War, occurred along the western frontier of the colonies. The last documented clash in the Shenandoah Valley took place nearby ...

Fredericksburg Campaign

With Richmond as his objective, Gen. Ambrose Burnside started the Federal Army of the Potomac from Warrenton on November 15, 1862. Forcing a crossing of the Rappahannock on December 11, he occupied Fredericksburg and the plain south of town along ...

2nd Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper

Born - 21 March 1856

Thomasville, Georgia

- Early Schooling -

Private Tutors

American Missionary Association

Atlanta University

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U.S. Military Academy

01 July 1873 - 14 June 1877

4th Black to Attend

1st Black to Graduate

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Died - 26 April 1940

Gravesite - Thomasville, Georgia

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"Henry O. Flipper's legacy echoes through the ...

141st Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Bigade, 1st Division, 3rd Corps

(Front):

Mustered in August and September 1862

Mustered out May 28, 1865

Recruited in Bradford, Susquehanna,

and Wayne CountiesPresent at Gettysburg 9 offices and 200 men

Killed and died of wounds 1 officer 41 men, total 42

Wounded 5 officers 41 ...

The Falls Church

The first church on this site was built in 1734 and was in Truro Parish. George Washington was elected a vestryman, October 3, 1763. In 1765 the church fell within the newly created Fairfax Parish, of which Washington was chosen ...

Site of Bank of Tehachapi

The first bank in Tehachapi was incorporated on October 11, 1892, in a dry goods store on "G" Street (now Tehachapi Boulevard). The founder and first President of the Bank of Tehachapi ws Isadore Asher, who operated the bank in ...

Bate's 2nd Tennessee Infantry

Cleburne's Division - Hardee's Corps

C.S.

Army of the Mississippi.

Bate's (2d) Tenn. Infantry,

Cleburne's (2d) Brigade,

Hardee's Corps.

This Regiment was engaged here on Monday April 7, 1862 until about 1 p.m.

Marker is on Hamburg-Purdy Road, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Second Battle of Fredericksburg

Chancellorsville Campaign May 3, 1863

General Lee conferred with some of his officers here at the start of the Chancellorsville Campaign. A few days later, Union soldiers overran Lee’s Hill.

Report on the action at Lee’s Hill by Colonel Henry ...

Faurot Oil Well

In 1885, 800 feet north of this marker, Benjamin Faurot struck oil after drilling into the Trenton Rock Limestone formation at a depth of 1,251 feet. This event marked the beginning of the great Oil Boom of northwest Ohio. The ...