Pacific Great Eastern Railway Station

Protected Heritage Building - 1913

The Pacific Great Eastern Railway Station was built to service a rail link between North Vancouver westward along Howe Sound to the interior of the province. The foot of Lonsdale became a busy transportation hub in ...

John “Snowshoe” Thompson / James T. Fennimore

Dedicated to two of Nevada’s brawniest pioneers: James T. Fennimore, who, on a wild night in 1859, christened this town Virginia – and to John “Snowshoe” Thompson who carried the mails on homemade skis during the crescent years of the ...

Fort Le Boeuf

This Monument Marks the Site of

This monument marks the site of

Fort Le Boeuf

Erected by the French in 1752.

George Washington

As a major representing the governor

of Virginia, came here in 1753, bearing

a letter to the commander of the

fort, warning the French to ...

“The Old Homestead House” of Myers Avenue

The town site of Cripple Creek was laid out shortly after the discovery of gold by Horace Bennett, a Denver realtor, with his partner, Julius Myers, naming the street after each of them. Bennett Avenue became the main street of ...

Jeff Davis County

This County created by Act of the Legislature Aug. 18, 1905, is named for Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. Born in Kentucky, Davis later moved to Mississippi. He was educated at Transylvania U. and West Point serving 7 years ...

Coastal Defense: The Endicott System

1898 - 1943

Battery Jasper, the black, concrete structure in front of you, was built in 1898 as part of the Endicott System - a series of concrete and steel fortifications armed with heavy-caliber guns, along the U.S. coastline. With ...

Richmond’s African Burial Ground

Richmond Slave Trail

(left panel)

“Se wo were fin a wosankofa a yenkyi.”

“It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.”

-A proverb of the Akan people of West Africa

An elder once said that cemeteries are not for the ...

Gravesite of Bishop Peter Spencer (1779-1843)

And His Devoted Wife, Annes

Born a slave, Bishop Spencer was the father of Delaware’s independent Black church movement. In 1813, he founded the Union Church of Africans, presently known as the African Union Methodist Protestant Church. The mother AUMP church ...

Manitowoc and the Car Ferries / S.S. Badger

Manitowoc and the Car Ferries. In the first five decades of the 20th century, Lake Michigan railroad car ferry service aided national defense and the regional economy by providing a key transportation alternative to the railroad bottle neck in Chicago. ...

Fourth Division

Army of the Ohio

U.S.

Fourth Division, Army of the Ohio

Brig. Gen. William Nelson.

10th Brigade, Col. Jacob Ammen, 24th Ohio.

19th Brigade, Col. Wm. B. Hazen, 41st Ohio.

22d Brigade, Col. Sanders D. Bruce, 20th Ky.

The advance of this Division arrived on the field ...