Dougherty County

This County, created by Act of the Legislature December 15, 1853, is named for Charles Dougherty of Athens, noted ante-bellum lawyer and jurist and strong advocate of states rights. In the Creek War in 1836 the Indians were driven out ...

Honor Roll Weston, Connecticut

Honor Roll Weston, Connecticut

World War I

Berglund, Reuben W. • Gifford, Vernon • Gustafson, Axel C. • Hurlbutt, Horace C., Jr. • Jacobi, Frank • Jacobi, Fred • Jacobi, Rudolph • Kramer, Herbert L. • Merwin, Harold • * Miller, ...

The Chkalov Transpolar Flight

Pearson Field

On June 20, 1937, the world’s attention turned to Pearson Field when a Russian ANT-25 aircraft landed after making the first non-stop flight over the North Pole.

The red and gray, single-engined aircraft “Stalin’s Route” carried over 2,000 gallons of ...

Lighthouse Keeper's Residence & Bermuda Kitchen

The Grand Turk Lighthouse had two keepers, the Principal and the Assistant. It is believed that before 1890 the keepers may have lived on location at the site of the present-day Pavilion. Meals were prepared in the seperate Bermuda Kitchen, ...

The Soviet Transpolar Flight of 1937

Magnificent Triumph of Soviet Aviation

[Monument front]:

Near this site at Pearson Airfield on June 20th, 1937, three Soviet aviators completed the first non-stop flight from the U.S.S.R. to the U.S.A.

Command Pilot Valeri Chkalov, Co-Pilot Georgi Baidukov, and Navigator Alexander Belyakov, completed ...

Fishkill in the American Revolution

Fishkill was a center of civil and military operations during the American Revolution. New York State’s first governing body met in the village’s churches during 1776-77 and drew up the first state constitution.

South of Fishkill, centered in the Van Wyck ...

Norfield Grange World War II Memorial

In Grateful Remembrance Of

Those Who Served In World War II

And

In Loving Memory Of

Those Who Gave Their Lives

In The Service Of Their Country

Clayton Edward Broch

Samuel A. Hill

Jack Rodosevich

Erected By Norfield Grange No. 146

Marker is at the intersection of Norfield Road and ...

Old Briery Church

Just to the north stands Briery Church, organized in 1755 following the missionary work of Presbyterian minister Samuel Davies. The first church was built about 1760 and was replaced in 1824. The present Gothic Revival church was built about 1855 ...

Hostages

In the summer of 1862, Confederate authorities imprisoned four Union men from Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County. The arrested Unionists were local citizens in good standing, but who refused to renounce their allegiance to the United States. They were imprisoned in ...

4th & 23d A.C. Advance

Howard’s 4th A.C. was aligned along this ridge (Mt. Vernon Rd.) from a point .5 mi. N.E. of Crossroads Ch. to 1.5 mi. S.W.. at the river. These troops reached this ridge July 12, 13, 1864, having crossed the Chattahoochee ...