Gibson County Training School / Polk - Clark School

1926 - 1970

Organized in 1926, the Industrial Training School for Negroes was the only training school for Blacks in Gibson County. Later named Gibson County Training School, it was the county's first four-year high school for Blacks. Students came from ...

The Cozad-Bates House / Anti-Slavery and Abolition

The Cozad-Bates House is one of the oldest remaining structures in Cleveland's University Circle. The original section, built circa 1853, is the only pre-Civil War residential structure left in the neighborhood. Built by Samuel and Jane Cozad's son, Andrew Cozad, ...

487th Bomb Group (H) Association

Former A.F. Station 137, Lavenham, England

"The Gentlemen From Hell"

A tribute to the personnel of the 487th Bombardment Group (H) for sacrifices which contributed to end WWII in Europe. The 487th Bomb Group led the largest mission of the war on ...

Kernstown Battles

Around this site and a mile to the west occurred two major battles of the Civil War.

First Kernstown

March 23, 1862 Stonewall Jackson attacked what appeared to be a withdrawing federal force led by federal Br. Gen. Shields. Desperate fighting along ...

The Rose Haydee Building

The first lady of the early Colorado state was Rose (Brown) Wakely, better known by her stage name, Rose “Haydee”. The dark-eyed beauty came to Colorado in September, 1859 – and the miners fell in love with her at once. ...

The Ignatz Meyer Building

The major fire in Central City on May 21, 1874 nearly wiped out the commercial district of the city. The new building was completed by November 1st of the same year and B.F. Pease operated a dry goods store at ...

Greenville Presbyterian Church

Organized 1773

Burial Place of

Revolutionary Soldiers

Marker is at the intersection of Old Shoals Junction Road (U.S. 178) and Bell Road, on the right when traveling south on Old Shoals Junction Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Burlingame Railroad Station

This first permanent building in the Mission Revival style of architecture was designed by George H. Howard and J. B. Mathison and financed by local residents and the Southern Pacific Railroad. It opened for service on October 10, 1894. The ...

African Americans And The Boston Saloon

Between 1866 and 1875, a remarkable business thrived directly behind building. Free-born William C. Brown operated his Boston Saloon, serving Virginia City’s African Americans. Archeologists have revealed that Brown offered his customers finely prepared meals with the best cuts of ...

The AOUW Building

One of the brick “fire proof” buildings which was destroyed in the fire of 1874 was Abraham Jacobs’ old store, located on this site. By August, a new one story building had been completed here and the old store was ...