C. V. Whitney

1899 - 1992

Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney represented the third generation of the Whitney family's prominence in business, society, and racing. His mother was a granddaughter of shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt. C. V. Whitney and a cousin, John Hay Whitney, ...

The Union Fifth Corps at Dawkins Branch

On the morning of August 29, 1862, the Union Fifth Corps, nearly 10,000 troops under Major General Fitz John Porter, advanced from Manassas Junction along this road under orders from Major General John Pope to march towards Gainesville and cut ...

Leslie Combs II

1901 - 1990

Leslie Combs II put a modern slant on the management and marketing of horses. He specialized in the form of syndication whereby some thirty-six shares would be sold in an individual stallion. Beau Pere, purchased for $100,000 in ...

Calvin Klein

Fashion Walk of Fame

There has never been a more recognizable and controversial name in the realm of American fashion than Calvin Klein. He is the master of the clean and minimal style that dominated global fashion in the late ...

Ralph Rucci

Fashion Walk of Fame

Born in 1957 in Philadelphia, Ralph Rucci showed his first collection in New York in 1981. His work contained both spiritual and intellectual elements which, combined with an obsessive dedication to cut and luxury, created a ...

A. B. Hancock Sr.

1875 - 1957

Arthur Boyd Hancock Sr. was the son of Capt. Richard Hancock, who established Ellerslie as the leading horse farm in Virginia late in the 19th Century. Arthur Sr. returned from the University of Chicago in 1895 to assist ...

Pole Tavern Cannon

The Cannon Il Lugano which was forged in Naples in 1763 weighs 800 Pounds. Il Lugano was used in battle against the Austrians. Napoleon who visited Italy once in 1796 and again in 1800 dragged the cannon over the Alps ...

Ellen “Nelly” VanVactor

Free Black Female Landowner

Nelly and her family lived on the northwest corner of Summer and Irish streets. Her daughter, Erie, and Erie’s two sons were emancipated in 1822. Nelly’s son, Alfred VanVactor Thompson, was born free in 1818. Well educated, ...

John Wesley Nichols

1839 - 1910

John Wesley Nichols was born January 28, 1839, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, to Samuel and Katharine Maxwell Nichols. Little is known of his early years. In 1860 he married Sarah Elizabeth Dearborn, also born in Crawford County.

Nichols joined ...

Calvert's Arkansas Battery

Maj. T. R. Hotchkiss' Artillery Battalion.

Calvert's Arkansas Battery

Two 6 pdrs., Two 12-pdr. Howitzers.

Maj. T. R. Hotchkiss' Artillery Battalion.

Cleburne's Division.

1st Lieut. Thomas J. Key Commanding.

1st Lieuts. R. Fitzpatrick and W. M. Hopwood.

2d Lieut. J. G. Marshall.

Nov. 25th, 1863. Noon

The battery occupied ...