Governor's Foot Guard

One Hundred Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

To Commemorate The

One Hundred Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

Celebration of the Founding in 1771

Of the First Company

Governor's Foot Guard.

General Jonathan M. Wainwright,

Hero of Corregidor and Guest of Honor

at this celebration was presented

The State of Connecticut

Distinguished Service Medal.

Participating was ...

Frederick Dent Grant

Eldest Son of General & President Ulysses S. Grant

During the Civil War

was with his father at

Grand Gulf • Raymond • Jackson •

Champion’s Hill • Big Black River • Vicksburg •

Chattanooga • City Point •

U.S. Military Academy • Class 1871 •

Yellowstone ...

Andrew Johnson Office Plaza

Site of original Andrew Johnson Hotel constructed in 1927

Restoration by Aetna Casualty & Surety Company 1985.

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Dept. of Interior

Marker is at the intersection of South Gay ...

Fort Stirling

This tablet marks the site of Fort Stirling. On this bluff in the spring of 1776, it formed one of a chain of redoubts built in Brooklyn opposite New York. This work fell into the hands of the British during ...

The Borror Family / Borror's Corners

Jackson Township Pioneers

The Borror Family

Jackson Township Pioneers

In 1809-1811, Magdalene Strader Borror, widow of Revolutionary War veteran Jacob Borror, Jr., moved to this area from Virginia with her seven children (Martin, Jacob, Myomi, Solomon, Christine, Issac, and Absalom). Originally clearing and ...

Footloose in Farmington:

A Historic Perspective of Downtown

Farmington, New Mexico, the heart of the Four Corners, boasts a thriving downtown, where character, history and culture fuse in a mixture of places and events. Originally the land in what is now Northwest New Mexico ...

Fort Cumming

Here stood a Cherokee Indian stockade with blockhouse on hill, built by U.S. Government in 1836.

Capt. Samuel Fariss and a company of Georgia volunteers guarded Cherokee Indians here before their removal to the west.

This fort was presumably named for Rev. ...

Bum - San Diego’s Official Town Dog / Greyfriars Bobby

The “Tail” of Two Cities – The Brother Dogs Project

Bum

San Diego’s Official Town Dog

Died November 10, 1898 – Aged 12 Years

Loved by everyone – owned by no one. His name suited him because he arrived as a town stowaway, befriended ...

“Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead!”

With these legendary words, naval officer David G. Farragut led the Union fleet past Confederate mines (then called torpedoes) and to victory at the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864. From the rigging of his flagship, USS Hartford, ...

Company E, 166th Infantry, 42nd (Rainbow) DivisionWorld War Memo

In memoriam

Members of Co. E. 166 U.S. Inf.

42nd. Rainbow Division A.E.F.

July 15, 1917 to May 16, 1919

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