White HouseTract

The 500-acres parcel of land long known as the “White House Tract” witnessed many of Augusta’s most significant historical events. On this tract an Indian trading company known as MacKay’s Trading Post, or the White House, flourished. Around this establishment ...

Old White Meeting House and Cemetery

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This church was established in 1696 by settlers from Dorchester, Mass., for which the town of Dorchester was named. This brick sanctuary, built ca. 1700, was occupied and then burned by British troops in 1781. The church was ...

Black and White Cleaners

Built by C. E. Boyce in 1907, this structure was a general merchandise and hardware store and shared a common wall with the Old Post Office to the west. In 1929 it became a dry cleaners with a huge array ...

White House of the Confederacy

Built in 1818 as the residence of Dr. John Brockenbrough, this National Historic Landmark is best known as the executive mansion for the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865. President Jefferson Davis and is family lived here until Confederate forces evacuated ...

White Oak Church

"Seems to Have Belonged to some Former Age"

Across the road stands White Oak Church, an important Civil War landmark during the winter of 1862-1863. Stafford County Baptist constructed the simple weatherboard structure sometime after 1789, later adding an attached shed ...

Robert H. White, Ph. D.

(1883 - 1970)

Robert H. "Bob" White was born in Crockett County 10 miles west of this site. He served 15 years as Tennessee's first official State Historian. He had previously served as a college teacher and a consultant to many ...

George Washington White Oak

In memory of

George Washington Bicentennial

Mt. Vernon White Oak

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Planted by

The Society of Daughters of Colonial Wars

in the State of New Jersey

March 16, 1932

Marker is on West State Street just west of Green Place, on the right when traveling east. ...

White Pass and Yukon Route Railway

Le Chemin de Fer White Pass et Yukon

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Built at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush, the 177 km narrow gauge railway was the heart of the Yukon transportation system for over 80 years. Completed in 1900, it linked the ...

Whitesville Methodist Episcopal Church, South

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The Methodist church in Whitesville had its origins about 1828 in meetings held at the home of Reuben Mobley. The First Methodist Church was founded in the early 1830s and by 1837 the decision was made to erect a ...

The Little White House

Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Warm Springs in 1924 in hopes of recovering from the effects of polio. His love for the area and hopes for the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation led him to build a small white clapboard cottage ...