Downtown Jacksonville Historic District

Selected as a landmark contributing to a deeper

understanding of our American Heritage.

Entered on

The National Register of Historic Places

by the

United States Department of the Interior

May 13, 1986

Centered around Jacksonville’s historic Public

Square, the district is bounded by Thomas Avenue,

Vann Street, Spring Avenue, ...

The Hanging Rock Iron Region

Charcoal iron production in Ohio was centered in the Hanging Rock Iron Region, a geographical area extending from Hocking County to the Ohio River and including portions of Northern Kentucky. The region encompassed an 1800 square mile area that was ...

The Lincoln Highway Meets the Superhighway

Nearly three centuries of transportation history can be found in Pennsylvania: native American paths to wagon trails, early canals and railroads, the Forbes and Burd Roads, and a string of ten other turnpikes. However, none were more important in the ...

McCants' Florida Battery.

Maj. Melancthon Smith's Artillery Battalion.

McCants' Florida Battery.

1 10-pdr. parrott, 3 6-pdr. S.B.

Maj. Melancthon Smith's Artillery Battalion.

Cheatham's Division, Hardee's Corps.

Nov. 25, 1863, 4 p.m.

Capt. Robert P. McCants, Commanding

1st Lieut. Thomas J. Perry.

1st Lieut. Andrew J. Neal

2nd Lieut. James C. Davis.

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On the ...

Lawtonville Church

This Baptist Church, constituted

in March 1775, was first situated

on Pipe Creek in upper St. Peter's

Parish near the Savannah River.

Prior to 1836 it was moved to

Lawtonville, where its building

was used as a hospital by Union

Forces in 1865. Pipe Creek Church

became Lawtonville ...

Peralta Home – Alta Mira Club

1860

This house was built by William Toler for his father-in-law Ygnacio Peralta. It may be the first brick house in Alameda County. Peralta and his brothers established the first Spanish/Mexican settlements in the northern East Bay on the land grant ...

U.S.S. Sacramento 1914 – 1942

The Galloping Ghost of the China Coast

Brought into service in 1914 to join the United States “Great White Fleet”, dubbed such for the sparkling white paint used on naval ships at the time, she was in service 28 years and ...

Pennsylvania Turnpike

This is one of the original service plazas for the nation's first long-distance superhighway. On October 1, 1940, the Turnpike opened, stretching 160 miles from Irwin to Carlisle. The Turnpike Commission had been created in 1937; construction utilized the old ...

Orangeburg Confederate Memorial

(North face)

To the

Confederate Dead

of

Orangeburg District

1861 — 1865

—

(East face)

Erected

by the woman of

Orangeburg County

1893

—

(South face)

A grateful tribute

to the brave defenders of

Our Rights,

Our Honor

and Our Homes

—

(West face)

Let Posterity emulate their

Virtues

and treasure the

memory of their

Valor

and

...

The Rothwell Family of Albemarle County Virginia

Claiborne, one of the first of the Rothwells to live in this county, was born about 1741 as reported in The Virginia Advocate, Saturday Oct. 11, 1828 and “died on Oct. 6 in his 87th year...He was a kind and ...