Battle of Baxter Springs

October 6, 1863

Major General J.G. Blunt left Ft. Scott on October 4, 1863 en route to Ft. Smith. With him was his military escort consisting of about 125 men from Company I, Third Wisconsin Cavalry, and Company A, Fourteenth Kansas ...

Early Charleston Road

This road largely followed the Catawba Path (1698). Widened by Public Act, 1753, and called "The Great Charleston Road," it joined that city with Camden and "The Back Country." Over it came Indians, pack-animals laden with hides, drovers, rolled hogsheads ...

2nd Kansas Colored Infantry at Fort Blair

The brush arbor was located in this general area and was used for a dining area for the troops at Ft. Blair. The colored troops were having lunch here when Quantrill's attackers approached from both the east and the south. ...

Bloomingburg Cemetery

The Bloomingburg Presbyterian Church and cemetery was established in the northwest corner of the current cemetery grounds on March 7, 1818. Several years later it became a center for anti-slavery activity. The Reverend William Dickey, who presided over the church, ...

Palisado Fort or Stockade

Most of the early frontier forts were of the palisado type. Before you is a small sample of this type construction. A palisade is a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense. ...

Harry M . Daugherty

One of Ohio's most influential politicians in the early 20th century, Washington Court House native Harry Daugherty (1860-1941) was widely known as a "President-maker" and served instrumental roles in President Warren G. Harding's administration, culminating a long career in state ...

St. Cornelius Chapel

Governors Island

During the first seven decades of American military use of Governors Island, there was no post chapel. In 1844, a Columbia College Episcopal Reverend, John M. McVickar, was commissioned post chaplain. His tireless efforts, combined with the sponsorship ...

Fort Hill

Home of

John C. Calhoun

1825-1850

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United States Congressman 1811-1817

Secretary of War 1817-1825

Vice President of the United States 1825-1832

United States Senator 1832-1843

Secretary of State 1844-1845

United States Senator 1845-1850

Home of

Thomas G. Clemson 1872-1888

Son-in-Law of

John C. Calhoun

Marker is on Fort Hill Street, on ...

Oroville Masonic Temple

SESQUICENTENNIAL TESTAMENT

On the 8th day of May

In the year 2006

AL 6006

Oroville Lodge No. 103 F.&A.M.

In the State of California

Did celebrate 150 years

In Oroville, California

Dispensation: April 4, 1856

Chartered: May 8, 1856

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Trolleys / Cheyenne's Street Railway

The Trolleys

The railway included a connector past the Fairgrounds to Fort S.A. Russell. Although 1890 drawings show a fail line going up over the wooden viaduct to South Cheyenne, it was never completed and no trolley service went south of ...