“You can fool all the people part of the time . . .”

Lincoln Speech, July 27, 1858

“You can fool all the people part of the time and part of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time.”

Spoken in an address in Clinton July 27, ...

Class of 1943 Veterans

This garden is dedicated to the men of the Class of 1943, with special remembrance to those who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the armed forces.

Marker is on Cahoun Drive, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The First Telegram

“What Hath God Wrought”

The first telegram “What Hath God Wrought” was sent from the Capitol in Washington to Baltimore May 24, 1844 over wires laid along the right of way of the B&O Railroad adjacent to this highway. The telegraph ...

Plains of Jars

Lying along the landscape of the Xieng Khouang plateau lay the remains of thousands of megalithic jars. The arrangements of these jars consist from small clusters to hundreds surrounding the foothills and valleys of the central plain. Early archeologists believe ...

Angel Falls

With height over 979 meters (3,230 feet), Angel Falls is the highest unbroken waterfall in the world. The waterfall is located within Canaima National Park inside of Southeastern Venezuela. The source of the water originates from an unknown supply that ...

Canyon Ferry

Canyon Ferry Lake, Montana’s third largest body of water may look like a simple recreational lake at first glance, but there is more here than meets the eye.

In the late nineteenth century, the Helena Water and Electric Power Company built ...

UNESCO World Heritage Site- Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam

The Minaret of Jam probably marks the site of the ancient city of Firuzkuh, the capital of the Ghurid dynasty that ruled Afghanistan and parts of northern India, from Kashgar to the Persian Gulf, in the 12th and 13th centuries. ...

Old Faithful, Riverside, and Grand Geysers

The Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, has the largest concentration of geysers and other geothermal features in the world, including Old Faithful, Riverside Geyser, Grand Geyser, and Morning Glory Pool.

John Coulter sent back the first published account ...

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Founded as a civic and historical institution, William McPherson, a lawyer and banker, established Bellefontaine Cemetery in 1849. McPherson and a group of preeminent citizens purchased 138 acres north of St. Louis, which included the Hempsted Farm and cemetery. During ...

Gates of the Mountains

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson enlisted Meriwether Lewis to lead the Corps of Discovery on an unprecedented journey westward. Primarily travelling by watercraft up the Missouri river, the Corps of Discovery departed from Camp Dubois, Illinois, in May 1804.

On ...