Frederick Remann

Apr. 10, 1807 - June 17, 1873

Born in Hanover. Member of Ernst Colony. Merchant. Paymaster in Blackhawk War 1832. Division Quarter Master in Illinois Militia - Colonel 1834. House of Representatives 1846-48.

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Stratford and Chantilly

Two miles east is Stratford, built about 1725 by Thomas Lee (1690–1750), president of the Virginia Council and father of Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, both signers of the Declaration of Independence. Here also was born Robert Edward ...

A home for Jackson’s Slaves

1821-1865

Andrew Jackson arrived at the Hermitage in 1804 with nine slaves. By 1821, that number had risen to fifty. In 1823, Jackson brought another thirty enslaved African American here from his recently sold Alabama plantation.

Faced with pressing need for additional ...

First Home of Abraham Lincoln in Illinois

In March 1830 Abraham Lincoln came from Indiana with his family to settle here in Macon County at a place on the north side of the Sangamon River ten miles westerly from Decatur.

The Lincolns built a log cabin and broke ...

The First National Bank

Newtown Heritage Walk No. 33

The First National Bank and Trust Company of Newtown was first organized in 1864 and operated out of a room in the Paxson-Croasdale Building, located at 2-4 South State Street. By the spring of 1868, ...

In Grateful Memory

In grateful Memory

of

those men from the parishes

of

Botesdale-Redgrave-Rickinghall

Superior and Inferior

who fell

in The Great War

1914-1918

Also

in affectionate memory of

those who gave their lives in the

1939-45 War

Peter Le M Andrew •

Sidney ...

Revolution or Fraud?

Emancipation in Caroline Co.

Maryland slaves were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, which excluded states that remained in the Union from its provisions. It was Maryland's new constitution, adopted by the narrow margin of 291 votes of almost ...

Overmountain Patriots of the American Revolution

Dedicated to the hundreds of patriots from this area who fought in the American Revolution (1775 - 1783).

When the war in the north came to a stalemate by early 1780, the British turned their military strategy to the South. They ...

Franklin Avenue

Originated as an Indian trail across land the Redmen called “Campgaw”. It was surveyed during the Revolutionary War by Robert Erskine, George Washington’s mapmaker, and connected settlements in the Ramapo and Saddle River Valleys. Franklin Lakes was once part of ...

Housing Reform and the Syphax School

River Farms to Urban Towers

In the 1890s, American cities had a common problem. The working poor lived in deteriorating housing, often no better than wooden shacks. In Washington much of this housing lined the city's hidden alleys. But people ...