The first steam-powered locomotive reached Cheyenne on November

Side A

By 1868 the community boasted 3,000 to 4,000 residents, plus business, schools, churches and newspapers. The UP's stone roundhouse was the first permanent structure (non-wood) built in town. The City's phenomenal growth produced its nickname, "The Magic City of ...

Historic Freedom Plains Church

Town of La Grange

Historic

Freedom Plains Church

- ( Presbyterian ) –

Built 1828 – Restored 1970

Chapel 1914 – Community Hall

Education Building 1956

1973 – Women's

Republican Club

Marker is at the intersection of Freedom Plains Road ...

The Burlington Routes

1887 - Present

Side A

Incorporated as the Cheyenne & Burlington Railroad in March 1887, the 30-mile long Wyoming segment was a part of the larger 145-mile long Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q) Railroad line that ran from Midland, Nebraska, westward to ...

Mangohick Church

Referred to by William Byrd in 1732 as the New Brick Church, Mangohick Church was built circa 1730 as a chapel of ease for those who lived in remote areas of St. Margaret's Parish. Distinguished by its fine Flemish bond ...

St. Colman Church and Cemetery

Irish railroad workers founded the Catholic community in Washington Court House in the 1850s, with the first Mass being held in a local shanty in 1852. In 1871, Father John B. O'Donoghue purchased three and 5/8 acres of land adjoining ...

Watauga Purchase

Here, March 19, 1775, at the Sycamore Shoals, the Watauga Association, Charles Robertson, Trustee, bought from the Cherokee, with Oconostota as chief, lands along the Watauga, Holston and Great Canaway (now New) Rivers. The consideration for the purchase was 2000 ...

200th Anniversary of Washington’s Inspection

This commemorative tablet

erected and dedicated in observance of

the 200th anniversary of

General George Washington’s inspection

to Fort Ticonderoga and the Champlain Valley.

July 1783                            July ...

Caroline County / King William

(obverse)

Caroline County

Area 529 Square Miles

Formed in 1727 from Essex, King and Queen, and King William. Named for Queen Caroline, wife of King George II. George Rogers Clark, conqueror of the Northwest, passed his youth in this county.

(reverse)

King William County

Area 263 ...

Poughkeepsie Civil War Memorial

[ west side ]

Memorial

To the Patriotism of the Men of

Dutchess and Columbia Counties

Who served in the 128th Regiment

in the Civil War 1861 – 1865

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Till the fame of our fathers

Has melted away,

Kings River - Centerville

Gabriel Moraga of the Spanish Army, on Jan. 6, 1806 camped near here on the banks of a river never before seen by white men. The day was Epiphany, commemorating the visit of the three kings of the East to ...