Bascom Lamar Lunsford

1882 - 1973

"Minstrel of Appalachia."

Folklorist, collector,&

performer. Pioneered and

promoted American folk

festivals. Was born here.

Marker is on Cascade St.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Union Occupation of Charlottesville

On 3 Mar. 1865, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s Union Army of the Shenandoah entered Charlottesville to destroy railroad facilities as the 3rd Cavalry Division led by Bvt. Maj. Gen. George A. Custer arrived from Waynesboro. Mayor Christopher H. Fowler, ...

Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898

At this site in 1898, Omaha hosted the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition.

Following the model of other “world's fairs,” the exposition highlighted the “Progress of the

West,” drawing over 2.5 million admissions.

The exposition grounds encompassed an area from Ames to Binney, and ...

The Farmington Canal

The Farmington Canal

The 56-mile Farmington Canal was Connecticut's super-highway of the 1830s and 1840s. Begun in 1825, the canal was the largest engineering project ever attempted in New England. Inspired by the commercial success of the Erie Canal, ...

Jackson’s March to Fredericksburg

Stonewall Jackson, on his march from Winchester to Fredericksburg, preceding the Battle of Fredericksburg, camped here, November 26, 1862.

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street (Business U.S. 29) and Old Blue Ridge Turnpike (Virginia Route 231), on the ...

Building History / Major Frank R Thompson (1903-1977)

Building History

Built in the 1930s by Frank R. Thompson, this building was the main street depot for the Anderson Petroleum Company and Dixie Distributors, Inc., both successful petroleum distributors in Anderson, Oconee, Pickens, Greenwood, Abbeville, and McCormick counties. Thompson's companies ...

Museum Of N.C. Handicrafts

Featuring farm home developed about 1878 by

Stephen J. Shelton and family

Later owned and developed by their son W.T. Shelton

Preserved 1944-1977 for community use by

Charles and Sally Ray

for museum and related purposes

Marker is at the intersection of Shelton St (U.S. 276) ...

The Union Land Company and the Case Family / The Olentangy River

The Union Land Company and the Case Family

Congress established the United States Military District in 1796 by an act to provide bounty land for Revolutionary War officers and soldiers. District lands consisted of 2.6 million acres in twelve Ohio counties, ...

American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions

American Board of Commissioners

For Foreign Missions

Here, on September 5, 1810, in the parsonage of the Reverend Noah Porter, minister of the Congregational Church of Farmington, Connecticut, the American Board Of Commissioners for Foreign Missions held its first ...

The Maryland Campaign of 1862

"...we are driven to protect our own country by transferring the seat of war to that of an enemy who pursues us with a relentless and apparently aimless hostility."

President Jefferson Davis

September 7, 1862

"The present seems to be the most propitious ...