Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

Memorial Reverse:

“Now it doesn't matter.

(go ahead! go ahead! Sounding from the audience.)

It really doesn't matter what happens now.

I don't know what will happen now.

We've got some difficult days ahead, (yeah! oh yes!)

But it really ...

Martha Louise Morrow Foxx

Born in North Carolina, Martha Louise Morrow Foxx (1902-1985), was educated at the North Carolina School for the Blind and the Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia. After the Mississippi State Commission for the Blind was created in 1928, ...

Martinsburg Roundhouse

Jackson and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

In April 1861, as the Civil War erupted, Confederate forces seized the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Harpers Ferry west. On May 24, Gen. Joseph

E. Johnston ordered Col. Thomas J. (later “Stonewall”) Jackson to ...

Washington’s Headquarters

General George Washington established his headquarters in this area at the junction of the American encampments to the east and the French encampments to the north.

Here he set up two tents: a large one for meeting with his staff and ...

Battle of Ezra Church Gen. Stewart Wounded

July 28, 1864. Gen. A.P. Stewart, with Walthall’s and Long’s divisions of his A.C. [CS], reached the field in time to renew the attack. Walthall, on left, fared no better than Brown, in the same area.

Stewart, riding forward to this ...

Artisan With Fire

While every farmer needed basic blacksmithing skills to make or mend small simple objects like horseshoes and nails, only the village smithy had the expertise to craft substantial articles such as kitchen and farm tools, blades and hinges. Additionally, a ...

1951–52 Start/Finish

Historic Race Circuits of Elkhart Lake

John Fitch drove Cunninghams to victory in the 1951 and 1952 200-mile main events. Phil Hill won the 1952 100-mile Sheldon Cup race driving a C-type Jaguar.

Marker donated by: Jaguar North America in honor of ...

Thomas Benjamin Hart House

Thomas B. Hart, with his brother, Charles, operated the saw and grist mills in the settlement of Hart’s Mills, now known as Wauwatosa. From 1874 to 1885 this was his residence. It is the oldest house on the city’s earliest ...

Stewart Indian School

1890 – 1980

Originally known as the Carson Indian Training School. Stewart Indian School, operated by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, provided vocational training and academic education for American Indian students from throughout the west for nearly a century.

W.D.C. Gibson, ...

The Vicente Martinez Adobe - 1849

Vicente Martínez was born in Santa Barbara on August 18, 1818, the second son of Don Ygnacio and Martina de Arellano Martínez who were married in the Presidio Chapel at Santa Barbara 1802. Don Ygnacio Martínez was a Spanish officer ...