15. The Collins-Mitchem House, 6819 Berryhill Street

Collins-Mitchem House. 6819 Berryhill Street. Circa 1925. Frame Vernacular. This house has a unique composition of style with an emphasis on Prairie elements that feature Craftsman columns that support a deep, wide one story porch. The wide eaves with exposed ...

The Linen Department Store

The Linen Department Store was the location where Hank Killam had an "encounter" with a plate-glass window. Hank died of a severe neck laceration on March 17, 1964 in front of the store. The "accident" was ruled a suicide, but ...

The Moore Home- 503 East Jackson (tour stop 1)

1. So the Turner-Moore home located at 503 East Jackson Street in Pensacola, Florida is where the whole sordid night began. That night—the night of Friday, January 30, 1931—ended the life of a 23-year-old scion of a prominent Jackson, Mississippi ...

The Gregory Home- 720 N. Davis Street (tour stop 2)

2. Henry Moore cruised up to this location at 720 North Davis, which in January 1931 was the site of the Gregory family home. Henry drove a roadster coupe, basically a 1930s sports car. Not the kind of car you ...

Dillon Depot, on the Union Pacific Railroad's Montana Subdivision

When the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) decided to build the Utah & Northern to the Montana mines, Richard Deacon named a kingly sum for his prized grazing land. UPRR, unwilling to pay the $8,000, sought businessmen willing to invest along ...

Humphrey, Idaho on the Union Pacific Railroad's Montana Subdivision

Humphrey, Idaho, is a ghost town.

     In 1902, Humphrey was the site of Patt Ranch, where the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) built a dam and ice pond along the early Utah & Northern route. Workers harvested up to 31,000 ...

Idaho Falls, on the Union Pacific Railroad's Montana Subdivision

In 1880, as the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) was advancing the former Utah & Northern north toward Silver Bow, Montana, UPRR officials chose Idaho Falls for their principal workshops. A team of one hundred men built “a station, several two-story ...

Southern Terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad's Montana Subdivision, Pocatello, Idaho

Pocatello, Idaho, is the southern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad's (UPRR's) Montana Subdivision, formally known as the Utah & Northern line, which stretched north to the former silver and copper mines of Butte, Montana.

     Rail lines used to ...

Supremacy, Siege, and the Sea

Military and naval conflict dominated the 18th century. France, Spain, and Great Britain were aggressors in nearly constant warfare that often extended into North America. Spain established a fledgling colony near what is now the Pensacola Naval Air Station in ...