In Remembrance of Our Warriors / Navajo Warrior Memorial

In Remembrance of Our Warriors

Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice and/or

Missing in Action,

They will never be forgotten

and to us they will always be young in our thoughts.

Nelson Lewis • Walter Nelson • Willie A. Notah • Edie Charlie Begaye • Lee ...

The Cheyenne Outbreak

On September 9, 1878, after a year of suffering on an Oklahoma reservation, some 300 Northern Cheyenne Indians began a trek back to their homeland. Dull Knife's band of 149 Indians were captured and taken to Fort Robinson. For months ...

Silurian Spring

Silurian Spring is a natural flowing spring situated on an elevation 50’ above the Fox River. David Jackson, the first postmaster of Waukesha (then Prairieville), built his log cabin west of the present day spring and used the water.

David Smeaton ...

Sesquicentennial Court House Site

Voters on July 17, 1854, selected Jackson as the county seat of the new County of Amador, born that June 14 after a spirited election. Fulfilling their promise, the Jackson town trustees, at no county expense, financed construction of the ...

Rickwood Field

Opening Day: August 18, 1910

Built by Birmingham industrialist A. H. “Rick” Woodward, Rickwood Field served as home to the Birmingham Barons and Birmingham Black Barons for most of the 20th century. Recognized as “America’s Oldest Baseball Park,” Rickwood Field is ...

143rd Pennsylvania Infantry

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):143rd Penna. Infantry

2nd Brig. 3rd Div. 1st Corps

Held this position July 2nd and 3rd 1863

and assisted in the repulse of the enemy on the 3rd.

Monument erected on 1st days field

near Reynolds Grove where the regiment lost 145 ...

Village of Harrison

A railroad camp named Summit (elev. 4876 ft.) was located on this site in 1884. When the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad reached here in 1886, an unincorporated townsite named Bowen was platted and designated the county seat of ...

Brush Creek Campground

On September 2, 1811, James Nelson deeded to trustees William Nelson, William Duzan, James King, Jacob Hoss and John R. Boring, 4 acres and 8 poles to be used by the Methodist Episcopal Church for a house of worship. For ...

Vestavia Hills Baptist Church / George Ward 1867-1940

Vestavia Hills Baptist Church

Vestavia Hills Baptist Church, constituted May 6, 1957, first met at Vestavia Hills City Hall. The church purchased the George Ward estate in 1958. On the property was Ward’s home, “Vestavia,” a replica of a Roman temple ...

The Gutzon Borglum House

Avondale Estates

Guzon Borglum, the world famous sculptor of Mt. Rushmore and the first man to work on the Confederate Memorial carving on Stone Mountain, lived in this house from 1924 to 1925. He had begun the Stone Mountain carving in ...