La Chapelle des Recollets

Ici, dans la chapelle des Recollets s’est tenue, du 16 mars au 6 avril 1789, l’Assemblée des Trois Ordres de la Senechaussée de Béziers pour les Etats Generaux du Rouvaume.

L’Abbe Gouttes et l’abbe Martin ont été deputes du Clerge : ...

City Square:

Continuity and Change

Native American Settlement

Native American occupation of the Charlestown peninsula predates European settlements by approximately 10,000 years. Archaeological evidence, such as tools made of stone, bone, wood, and shells, suggests the early Natives were hunters of wild animals ...

Deacon Larkin House

This 1790s Georgian residence was built for Deacon John Larkin, a patriot best remembered for his role in Paul Revere's legendary midnight ride. It was Larkin's horse that carried Revere out to Lexington and Concord to warn the Committee of ...

Lawrence Lafayette Richardson, M.D.

July 23, 1867 - August 9, 1958

Physician 64 Years.

Mayor of Simpsonville 38 Years:

1917 • 1923 • 1928 • 1958;

Chairman Simpsonville School Board 20 Years

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street and West College Street, on the right when ...

Grant's March Thru Louisiana

Grant's March Map included

Winter Quarters

(Picture included)

Winter Quarters, the country home of Haller and Julia

Nutt, is the only plantation home along Lake St. Joseph

that survived the Vicksburg campaign. The Nutts were

Union sympathizers who offered hospitality to Union

soldiers at Winter ...

Battle for the Mississippi: The Vicksburg Campaign

The fall of New Orleans in April1862,

capped the beginning of an 18-month drive

to control Vicksburg and the Mississippi River.

The fight for this strategic location was arduous.

Vicksburg, sitting high atop bluffs, was protected

by artillery and a maze ...

Greycourt - Orange Co., N.Y.

The origins of a railroad in this area date back to 1836, when the Hudson & Delaware Railroad was chartered to build a rail line from Newburgh, New York to Chesterville, New York (now known as Greycourt) with the intention ...

Chester, New York

When the first train entered Chester, New York on September 23, 1841, few realized exactly what kind of an impact the railroad would have on the town. Before the New York & Erie Railroad (later reorganized as the Erie Railroad) ...

Goshen, Orange Co., N.Y.

Situated in the center of Orange County, Goshen has a long and storied history as a major focal point of the nation's railroad infrastructure. When the builders of the New York & Erie Railroad began construction, they envisioned a railroad ...

Beziers Citizens Murdered

Ici le 20 Aout 1944 avant-veille de libération de Béziers dix biterrois paisibles furent assassines par les hordes Nazies en fuite

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Here, on August 20, 1944, two days before the liberation of Béziers, ten peaceful Beziers ...