Lest We Forget

This monument has been erected to honor the memory of eleven local railroad workers who met untimely deaths in a tragic train accident between Roseville and Lincoln on April 8, 1935.

Louis Apostolas • Arnold Caballero • Sam Darras • Tony ...

The Badger Building

Completed about 1883, this two-story limestone structure is representative of other commercial buildings located on the Courthouse Square in the 1880s. It was built for local financier Dr. W. H. Westfall and Captain Brandt Badger (b. 1839), a native of ...

S.C.L.C. and the Voter Education Program 1962-1970

Dorchester Academy

Citizenship Schools

Dorchester Cooperative Center played a key role in the struggle for civil rights and the vote.

In 1954, Septima Clarke, a school teacher from Charleston, SC and Esau Jenkins, a farmer and school bus driver from Johns Island, SC, ...

Weller’s Store

Site of

Like many ‘49ers, Samuel and Elias Weller soon quit mining and turned to less exhausting work. The Weller brothers operated two stores in town; one was primarily a tin shop. The brick buildings were called Coloma’s first fireproof structures. ...

Leavenworth County

After passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, May 30, 1864, this area was swiftly settled. The county was organized in 1855, taking its name from Gen. Henry Leavenworth who established the nearby fort in 1827.

In a county seat war, Leavenworth was ...

The Military Order of The Purple Heart

The Purple Heart was established by General George Washington in 1782. At that time it was called Badge of Military Merit. In 1932 it became known as the Purple Heart and is awarded only for combat wounded veterans.

Some Gave All ...

Airy Mount Barn

Kentucky native Adam Rankin Johnson (1834-1922) came to Texas in 1854. After attaining the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate Army, Johnson later settled in Burnet County where he was active in business and civic affairs. In 1882 he ...

Batteries F & K, Third U.S. Artillery

First Regular Brigade - Artillery Reserve

Army of the Potomac

Artillery Reserve

First Regular Brigade

Batteries F & K Third U.S. Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Lieut. John C. Turnbull Commanding

July 1 Took position on crest of hill near General ...

Liberty County Citizen's Council 1946 - 1953

Dorchester Academy

The Errosion of the Franchise

With the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution in 1868 and 1869, African Americans were granted full citizenship and the right to vote. In less than a decade, nearly 100,000 ...

Tribute to Admiral de Grasse

To

Comte Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse

Admiral of the French Fleet

"Arbiter Of The War"

— — — General George Washington

Victor in the only decisive Naval Battle

in the American Revolution ( the Virginia

Capes, on Sept. 5, 1781) ...