Ricketts' Battery

Batteries F and G

(Front):Ricketts' Battery

1st Penna. Light Artillery

Penna. Reserve Corps

(Back):Present at Gettysburg Consolidated Battery F & G 3 officers & 141 men

Killed & died of wounds 7 men

Wounded 1 officer & 13 men

Captured or missing 3 men

Total 24

F

Recruited in Schuylkill ...

Vermillion County Indiana - - War Memorial

Dedicated to all veterans during war and peace time.

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Nothing hurts like being forgotten. Nothing helps like being remembered. For those who fight for it, life has a special flavor the protected never know.

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Colonial Wars

Genesis

Revolutionary ...

Prescott National Bank

The Prescott National Bank was organized by William Bashford, R.N. Fredericks and others in March, 1893. In October, 1900 Bank President Frank N. Murphy announced the construction of a new bank building on the "Old Wooster Block" at Prescott's "banking ...

Monroe House

Perly Monroe was the grandson of Peter and Nancy Gooch, who were freed from slavery here when California became a state in 1850. The Monroe family became successful fruit farmers and prominent property holders in Coloma. Built in 1925, this ...

James Bridger Gravesite

picture of Jim Bridger

James Bridger

1804 · 1881

Celebrated as a hunter, trapper, fur trader, and guide. Discovered Great Salt Lake 1824, the South Pass 1827. Visited Yellowstone Lake and Geysers 1830. Founded Ft. Bridger 1843. Opened Overland Route ...

Efforts of a Virginia Tradesman 1670s

The early English settlers came to Virginia looking for gold, silver, and precious gems, but never found them. Some of the artifacts they left behind, however, are highly valuable to the archaeologists who excavated Jamestown centuries later.

One such artifact lay ...

A Jamestown Warehouse 1630s-1699

That at last Christmas we had trading here ten ships from London, two from Bristoll, twelve Hollanders, and seven from New-England.

A Perfect Description of Virginia, 1649

Jamestown’s waterfront property was prime real estate. Governor Harvey wrote “that there was not one ...

Fort Tyler

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125 yards northwest, at crest of hill, stood Fort Tyler - last Confederate fort to fall in War Between the States. Fort Tyler was of earthwork construction 35 yds. square surrounded by ditch 12 feet wide, 10 feet deep and ...

Water and Well

“ … not at all replenished with springs of fresh water … their wells brackish, ill-scented … and not grateful to the stomach.” If a well at Jamestown was sunk to the right depth, it could yield “sweet water.” Too ...

John S. Roberts

Sheriff in Natchitoches Louisiana in 1826. One of the leaders in Battle of Nacogdoches. Member of Consultation 1835. Commanded the Nacogdoches company in storming of Bexar, 1835. Signer of Texas Declaration of Independence. Born in Virginia, July 13 1796. Died ...