Taylor County

Taylor County was created by Act of Jan. 15, 1852 from parts of Macon, Marion and Talbot Counties. It was named for Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), 12th President of the U.S., Major-General, Commander of the Army of the Rio Grande. Known ...

Dorchester Presbyterian Church

This church, built in 1854 on a lot of four acres donated by B.A. Busbee, was first used for summer services only. On January 6, 1871, it was admitted into the Savannah Presbytery as an organized church of 14 members. ...

Henning (Illinois) War Memorial

[ Center Section - Top ]

In Memory of Sgt. Joshua Troy Crippin

and Henning Veterans who served our Country in War and Peace.

[ Left Section ]

Civil War - - -

Pete Coon Confederate • James W. Henderson • Albert M. Lenox • ...

Bibb Furnace

The Bibb County Iron Company under the direction of C. C. Huckabee of Newbern, Alabama, constructed a furnace here and poured the first iron in November 1862. Within a year, the Confederate government purchased the works and completed a second ...

Washington County Courthouse / Salem Downtown Historic District

Washington County Courthouse

County formed 1814 by General Assembly of Indiana Territory. Commissioners selected county seat and named it Salem. This third courthouse completed 1888 using locally quarried limestone. Designed in Richardsonian Romanesque Style by Harry P. McDonald, Louisville. Listed in ...

First Day at Central School: Circa 1900

(as told by Cecil Card for the Oral History Project)

"First came the short white undershirt and underpants. Next came the vest with two rows of buttons the first of which held up the underpants, then the white blouse with a ...

Civil War Soldiers' Monument

Originally erected in 1870 between Mt. Ephraim and Goodall Streets, this monument displays the names of 18 fallen Searsport men. It was dismantled in 1896 and moved to the current location in front of the new Masonic and Odd Fellows ...

Dr. Mudd's House

Dr. Mudd set the broken leg of Wilkes Booth who escaped from Washington after Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865. Dr. Mudd was tried and imprisoned on Dry Tortugas Island.

Marker is on Leonardtown Road (Maryland Route 5) near Mattawoman - ...

State Theatre

The State Theatre opened on July, 25, 1930, featuring The Social Lion. The terrazzo sidewalk is all that remains on the once “handsome theatre.”

Marker can be reached from the intersection of San Benito and 7th Street, on the right when ...

The Cameron Valley

Early Industrial Development in Western Alexandria

The area west of the Mill Race complex once was a sloping meadow through which ran the meandering tail race of the Cameron Mills. The mill site itself was located beneath what is now the ...