Invasion of the Union Camps

As the sun rose, Union soldiers camped here and at nearby sites looked forward to a peaceful and leisurely Sunday. A flood of Rebel infantry, however, was about to engulf them from the southwest.

Whitelaw Reid, a Northern reporter, described the ...

Lindley's Fort / Jonathan Downs

Lindley's Fort

On July 15, 1776, a number of Indians and Tories attacked this frontier fort where area settlers had gathered for protection. Major Jonathan Downs, with a company of men, had arrived the previous evening & helped repulse the attack. ...

Spirit of Greenbush

[South Side:]

Mos na harroni. Do not forget us.

Nina Pecoraro Borgman Carpenter

The best education I ever had was growing up in the Bush.

Billy McDonald

For the Italian girls our parents were too strict. It was school, home, and church.

Victoria Marie Gandolfo Pelliteri ...

Law Offices of Sherman, Ewing, and McCook

60 Main Street

William Tecumseh Sherman

Thomas Ewing Jr.

Hugh Boyle Ewing

Daniel McCook Jr.

All four members of the law firm served with distinction as general officers in the Union Army in the Civil War.

Thomas Ewing Jr. was the first Chief Justice of Kansas, ...

Loyalist Raid of 1778

On Feb. 19, 1778, while the British occupied Philadelphia, some 40 armed Loyalists raided the tavern here. The fighting left 5 American soldiers dead, 4 wounded, 11 captured. Tailors here were making uniforms for use at Valley Forge, and ...

The First Maryland Brigade

Morristown National Historical Park

The Marylanders were ordered south in April 1780 to reinforce the garrison at Charleston, South Carolina. The New Jersey Brigade, just back from guard posts near the British lines, moved into the Maryland huts for the next ...

Downtown Sheboygan Falls Historic District

?In 1835, upon finding these falls and their fine water power, Massachusetts pioneer and entrepreneur Silas Stedman decided to purchase the surrounding land for village and industrial development. The following year, Stedman platted the "Town of Rochester" and built the ...

Union Line of Defense

Finally aware that great numbers of Confederates were marching on their camps, the Union Sixth Division organized its first line of defense along the ridge in front of you. Henry M. Stanley, a Confederate infantryman, described what it was like ...

Scientific Approach to Agriculture

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

In 1893 the College of Agriculture's emerging science-based approach to agriculture was emphatically demonstrated to farmers and Wisconsin citizens by the postmortem verification of a tuberculosis test for cattle. Organized by University of Wisconsin bacteriologist ...

Riverfront Community Center

Old Union Depot

In 1984 V.B. Greenamyre and family gave the building to the City of Leavenworth. In 1985 a bond issue was voted to renovate the building and to build additional facilities. A half cent sales tax was approved to ...