Mount Tabor United Methodist Church Cemetery

This cemetery was established August 20, 1857, by George C. and Purnelea Crawford. In an earnest desire to promote God’s Kingdom on Earth, they conveyed this site to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and their successors.

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Jewell Cemetery

Jewell Cemetery is located on what was originally the farm of George Jewell. George, his wife, and their children first moved from Virginia to Kentucky, then Franklin, Missouri, and finally Columbia in 1822.

George, his son William, and sons-in-law Charles Hardin ...

Union Christian Church

Union Christian Church began in spring 1897, under a brush arbor approximately 4 miles northeast of this site. Two

acres were donated by future Congressman Charlie W. Thompson, of Tuskegee. Rev. John Allen Branch was the

first minister. The original ...

Florida's First African-American Insurance Company--1901-2001

The Afro-American Insurance Company, formerly the Afro-American Industrial and Benefits Association, was founded in 1901 to provide affordable health insurance and death benefits to the state's African-Americans. Founded by the Reverend E.J. Gregg, E.W. Latson, Abraham Lincoln Lewis, A.W. Price, ...

In Commemoration of Old Toby the Shoshone Indian

Members of the Lewis & Clark Expedition - August and September 1805

In commemoration of

Old Toby

the Shoshone Indian

who guided the Lewis & Clark expedition from the Salmon to the Bitterroot Valley after he had shown Captain Clark that the Salmon River ...

F.D. Crockett

Built in 1924 in Seaford, VA by Alex Gaines and John Smith

This historic vessel is the last largest log boat built for power.

The Deltaville Maritime Museum, with John England as project manager, is restoring the “Crockett” for ...

Spalding County

Spalding County was created by Act of Dec. 20, 1851 from Fayette, Henry and Pike Counties. It was named for Thomas Spalding (1774-1851), native of Frederica. One of the earliest cotton and sugar cane planters in Georgia, he was a ...

First School House and Council House in Iron County

"I commenced a grammar school in my wickiup by the light of the fire and only one grammar book." Diary of George A. Smith, February 25, 1851.

The first school house, 18 x 24 feet, was built west of the Council ...

John C. Freemont Memorial

Seeking a suitable railroad route through the central Rockies, John C. Freemont and Company reached Parowan February 6, 1854.

These are Freemont's own words, "We were all so feeble we could barely drag ourselves down the trail, but the Mormons took ...

Whitewater Canal State Historic Site

The Whitewater Canal was one of several projects begun by the Indiana Improvement Act of 1836, which was designed to improve transportation and develop commerce state-wide. Constructed to link southeastern and central Indiana, the canal was completed in 1847. The ...