The Second American School for the Deaf

Expanding American Deaf Education

By the end of 1817 Gallaudet and Clerc needed more space for their growing number of students. They purchased the home that stood at this location from attorney Thomas Day. This second location is sometimes still ...

The First American School for the Deaf

Beginning 200 years of Deaf Education

Today the Bushnell Towers stand on the former location of the City Hotel. Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc rented rooms at this hotel and it was here that the American School for ...

The Cogswell and the Gallaudet Families

Birth of Deaf Education

Although the Cogswell family mansion no longer stands, this site saw the birth of deaf education in North America, the events that would create American Sign Language (ASL). Dr. Mason Cogswell, a renowned Yale graduate and ...

The Advanced Redoubt

The Advanced Redoubt of Fort Barrancas was built between 1845 and 1870 as part of a defensive network for the Pensacola Navy Yard. Forts Pickens, McRee, and Barrancas protected the entrance to the harbor; the Advanced Redoubt was constructed to ...

Summit Meadow

From the East Fork of the Salmon River, the road turns westerly and descends into swampy Summit Meadows and the watershed of Still Creek. From Summit Meadows, the road turns northerly again and passes through the center of Government Camp, ...

The Dalles

The Barlow Road was started because the wagon train that Samuel Barlow and William Rector were in reached the Dalles too late in the fall to head down the Columbia and Willamette Rivers to Oregon City – the last of ...

Wrought Iron Gate created by Philip Simmons

Local artisans crafted many of Charleston’s famous ornamental gates, like the gate pictured above by Philip Simmons. Decorative wrought-iron gates, fences, and railings are an integral part of Charleston’s identity, and the city’s African American craftsmen played a strong role ...

Watches and locket belonging to Harry and Harriette Moore

These watches and locket belonged to Civil Rights activists Harry and Harriette Moore and were inside their Mims, Florida home the night they were murdered for civil rights activism. This couple’s personal items serve as a stark reminder that those ...

Vest Worn by Jimi Hendrix

On June 18, 1967, Jimi Hendrix and the Experience electrified festival goers at the Monterey Pop Festival. Images of Hendrix, setting his Fender Stratocaster guitar on fire, quickly circulated through the media and their inspired concert performance catapulted Hendrix to ...

Training aircraft used by Tuskegee Institute

This PT-13D Stearman Kaydet biplane once flew the skies above Moton Field in Alabama as a training aircraft for the Tuskegee Airmen, the Army Air Corps’ first African American aviators. One of the few remaining aircraft utilized by original pilots ...