Hooks Brothers Photography

Established in 1907

Side A

Established by Henry A. Hooks, Sr. and his brother Robert B. Hooks, Hooks Brothers Photography Studio was the second oldest continuously operating black business in Memphis.

Located during its early years at 164 Beale Street, it next ...

The Camp Colt Officers Club

This beautifully restored Gothic Revival house, ca. 1870, was originally the home of the Rev. Luther Sieber family. Paul Sieber became Gettysburg College's first All-American football player. During World War I, the building served as the Officers Club for Camp ...

Brick Hotel

Newtown Heritage Walk No. 29

Prior to 1750, there existed a dwelling on this site, 1 East Washington Avenue, which had been built by Shadrach Walley, Newtown's first settler. Amos Strickland, a farmer and entrepreneur from Philadelphia, bought the property ...

"...the busiest scene I ever witnessed..."

On July 8, 1863, the U.S. Sanitary Commission commandeered the three story Fahnestock Bros. buildings as their "stone house" for food and other supplies. From here these critical provisions were distributed daily to the many field hospitals in and around ...

Heywood Building

City of Berkeley Landmark, designated in 1993

James W. Plachek, Architect

1917

Jim Novesel: The Bay Architects

1994

This small commercial building was built for William Heywood, son of Berkeley pioneer Zimri Brewer Heywood. The upstairs was used as the architectural offices of James W. ...

Thick of the Battle

4:00 - 4:30 p.m. July 9, 1864

The Battle of Monocacy changed from a stalemate to a rout as the final lines of Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon's three Confederate brigades swept down Brooks Hill onto the fields of Thomas farm. ...

The Blues Trail From Mississippi to Memphis

The bright lights of Beale Street and the promise of musical stardom have lured blues musicians from nearby Mississippi since the early 1900s. Early Memphis blues luminaries who migrated from Mississippi include Gus Cannon, Furry Lewis, Jim Jackson and Memphis ...

Edwin Denby Enlistment

Edwin Denby, 42nd Secretary of the Navy and Michigan Congressman 

Enlisted on this spot

26 April 1917

As Private, U.S.M.C.

First Burial Ground

The First Burial Ground is the presumed buying place of Norton's pioneer settler's.

William Witherell, who died in September 1691, is buried in the West end of the burial ground. When the land was passed to Nathaniel Witherell by his father,the ...

Francis Kittredge Shattuck Building

City of Berkeley Landmark, designated in 1995

Stone and Smith, Architects

1901

Jim Novosel: The Bay Architects

1998

Berkeley’s transit pattern was established in 1876 when Francis Kittredge Shattuck and James L. Barker brought a spur line of the Central Pacific (later Southern Pacific) Railroad ...