Milwaukee River Flushing Pump

1888

This pump, designed by Edwin Reynolds (1831-1909) and built by the Edward P. Allis Company, is the major component of one of the earliest water-pollution control systems. It was capable of pumping more than a half billion gallons of ...

Temple for Our History

[National Archives Building] Make No Little Plans

You’re standing at the National Archives Building, the first permanent repository for the original records of the federal government. They include the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, displayed ...

This is the Capital District

Historic New York

          The Capital District has long been important as a trading post, military objective and governmental center. Located near the juncture of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, Albany has been the “crossroads” of ...

First Baptist Church of Alpharetta

circa 1905

In 1903, a group of women who met weekly for prayer and Bible study began collecting offerings. From those collections, the women purchased a sixty by one hundred foot lot and began construction of the First Baptist Church. The ...

Cunningham Memorial Park

In 1798, on a nearby site, the first gristmill in this area was built by Valentine and Margaret Cunningham. Later another gristmill was established here. Soon a community was established. The town, first known as Pine Grove, was incorporated as ...

The Chippewa Bay Area

Historic New York

This area was settled early in the 1800's by immigrants from Scotland. They were encouraged to come here by agents of George Parish, a large landholder in the North Country. These conscientious farmers and tradesmen came up ...

Buford Pusser Memorial Park

"In Memory of a Man Who Walked Tall"

Personal History

Buford Hayes Pusser was born near Finger, Tennessee on December 12, 1937. His early education consisted of elementary schools in this area and graduation from Adamsville High School in 1956. About a ...

Pasquotank River

The Pasquotank River was noted in 35 runaway slave ads between 1791 to 1840, indicating that slaves (“freedom seekers”) escaped on board boats (“vessels”) traveling north to free territory or south to the West Indies, confirming that Underground Railroad operations ...

Coker Spring

The source of water for early settlers.

A stagecoach stop on route from Abbeville to

Charleston, S.C. Deeded to City of Aiken 1844

by Wm. Peronneau Finley. Restored by many

friends in 1972.

(Upper Medallion)

The National Register

of Historic Places

South Carolina

Department of Archives ...

Friendship Garden

In May 1936, the Tri-County news of Americus, Georgia, reported, "Miss Julia Coleman {superintendent of the Plains High School} has directed a program for the beautification of the {school} campus this spring, and many shrubs and flowers have been planted. ...