Summit Hall Farm Smokehouse

This outbuilding located on the ridge of Summit Hall Farm is treasured as the oldest complete historic structure within the City of Gaithersburg. Historically known as the smokehouse, its notched logs and chinked mortar serve as a modern day reminder ...

United States Air Force

1976 - 2075

The men and women of the Air Force Eastern Test Range proudly dedicate this monument to our national progress in missile and space technology in recognition of the American revolution Bicentennial. Erected on site of support elements ...

Doolittle's 1922 Record Flight

Aviation pioneers were attracted to Northeast Florida's hard, wide beaches. Pablo Beach, as Jacksonville Beach was known until 1925, served as takeoff or terminal point for several early coast-to-coast flights. The first of these, in 1912, required 115 days to ...

First Settlers At Ruby, Florida

In 1883 construction of the Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad was begun to serve this undeveloped area. The track was narrow-gauge, running 16.54 miles from the south bank of the St. Johns River to the beach. The first settlers were William ...

Opening of the Mid-Continent Oil Field

Kansas has long been oil country. There are legends that Indians held council around the lights of burning springs. Emigrants, it is known, skimmed "rock tar" from such oil seeps to grease the axles of their wagons.

A mile southeast is ...

Confederate Torpedo Boat David

Tomb

In Memory of my

shipmates of the

Confederate

Torpedo Boat David

Charleston S.C. Oct 5, 1863

Lieut. W.T. Glassell, C.S.N.

Pilot W.J. Cannon, C.S.N.

Fireman Jas.Sullivan, C.S.N.

Chief Engineer

James Hamilton Tomb, C.S.N.

Marker can be reached from Winona Drive near N. Liberty Street, on the left.

Courtesy ...

The Bicentennial of Haitian Independence

Memorial Plaza

In memory of two Haitian Freedom Fighters born into slavery, Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines symbolized those who fought for the liberation of Saint Dominque from its colonial bonds between 1791-1804. Armed with the conviction that slavery and servitude ...

One Hundred and Twentieth Infantry New York Volunteers

To the undying renown

of the rank and file

of the

One Hundred and Twentieth

Infantry

New York Volunteers.

One of

“Three Hundred Fighting Regiments”

in the

War for the Union.

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By the Colonel of the Regimant.

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1896.

Prince Hall Masonic Lodge F.A.M.

Hiram Lodge NO.3 of the Prince Hall Masons was founded in 1797. It is the second oldest lodge in Masonic history. The Masonic order has played an invaluable role in the development of Afro-American moral values. Social skills and leadership ...

“The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the Town of Kingston in

This church organized in 1659 and chartered November 17, 1719 under His Majesty George King of Great Britain was served until December 1808 by pastors educated in the Universities of Holland and Germany who preached in Dutch. The first sermon ...