Bottoms

A Neighborhood That No Longer Exists

Cincinnati is a city of neighborhoods. One of them is very, very special—because it is no longer there. The Bottoms: a dense urban neighborhood full of churches, full of people. It ran from the River ...

First Battle of Deep Bottom

On the night of 26-27 July 1864, a Union battle group led by Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock crossed the James River on pontoon bridges a mile south. Hancock intended to attack Confederate defenses below Richmond while the primary Federal ...

William Tom

Who served under

General Jackson

in the Creek War, 1813

Soldier in the Army of Texas, 1835

Born in Maury County, Tennessee

January 12, 1792

Died in Guadalupe County, Texas

February 15, 1871

His wife

Kissiah Hines Tom

Born October 15, 1805

Died July 13, 1862

Marker can be reached from ...

Tomales

Once the land of the Miwok, Tomales was founded in 1850 by John Keys who shipped potatoes to San Francisco and Warren Dutton who opened the Post Office in 1854. Shipping ended with the siltation of the estuary. From 1875 ...

Tomb of the Unknown Slave

On this October 30, 2004, we, the faith community of St. Augustine Catholic Church, dedicate this shrine consisting of grave crosses, chains and shackles to the memory of the nameless, faceless, turfless Africans who met an untimely death in ...

The CCC in York County / Tom Johnston Camp, (SCS#10), CCC

The CCC in York County

One of the most successful of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), created in 1933. It gave many young men and World War veterans jobs planting trees, fighting forest fires ...

Deep Bottom Park

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

Fourmile Creek flows into the slender oxbow of the James River here. Oxbows, successive curvatures in the river’s course, forced Smith and his men to row long distances on their exploratory trip upstream. Navigating ...

Anthony J. “Tom” LoPresti

1962 National PGA Pro of the Year

Head PGA GOLF PROFESSIONAL at

HAGGIN OAKS GOLF COURSE

1932 – 1994

In recognition of Tom LoPresti – otherwise known as “Mr. Golf of the West Coast” for his 62 years of dedicated service to the Sacramento ...

Potawatomi ‘Trail of Death’ Route

Indiana to Kansas, September 4 - November 4, 1838

The 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe on this site was decisive, leading to the loss of their homelands and the removal of Indians from Indiana.

At Gunpoint, about 850 Potawatomi passed this location on ...

Belvoir Grounds and Potomac View Trail

The Northern Neck Land Grant

(Left Side):

The Northern Neck Land Grant

A proprietary was land granted to a loyal subject of the King. The Proprietor was permitted to subdivide the land and grant, sell or give it to others. In 1649, King ...