Bath Iron Works

Shipbuilding has been a way of life along the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine, since 1762. The Bath Iron Works (BIW) shipyard, located on the west bank of the Kennebec is the namesake of an iron foundry established in 1826.

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Battle of Milliken's Bend

At daybreak on June 7, 1863, Gen. H. E. McCulloch led his Texas Brigade against the Union force which guarded the Union supply depot at Milliken's Bend.

In the savage fighting which ensued, the Confederates drove the Federals from their ...

Paul Bunyan Statue

This statue, reputed to be the largest of Paul Bunyon in the world, stands facing the Penobscot River. The legendary giant woodsman is a symbol of the great era in the late 1800's when Bangor, Maine was acclaimed to be ...

Boone Hill Plantation

Boone Hall Plantation, established in 1681 by a grant to Major John Boone, remained in the family for 130 years.

The plantation, purchased by the Horlbeck family in 1817, produced primarily Sea Island cotton. A cotton gin, smokehouse, and nine ...

Lee's Retreat

Near here General Robert E. Lee, moving south toward Danville, in the afternoon of April 5, 1865 found the road blocked by General Phillip Henry Sheridan.

He then turned westward by way of Amelia Springs, hoping to reach the South ...

Allatoona Pass

Allatoona was in pioneer days a travel hub, because ridges from east and south met here where it was fairly easy to cross the Allatoona Mountain range by winding over a low ridge, or pass.

The Sandtown or Tennessee Road from ...

Millersylvania State Park

Millersylvania State Park Historic District, a forested tract surrounding a small lake in the south Puget Sound region of Western Washington developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), reflects distinctly the contributions of Despression-era New Deal relief programs to our ...

Indian Statue

The 48-foot high statue known as "Black Hawk" was the creation of sculptor Lorado Taft, a national art figure in the United States art world from the 1890s to his death in 1936.

Completed in 1911, the statue is situated ...

Attucks School

Constructed in 1916-17, the Attucks School served the black community of Vinita, Oklahoma as a combined elementary, junior, and high school.

Stylistically, the school is a combination of a simplified Art Deco and WPA construction. It was not the only ...

Orchard Beach State Park

Orchard Beach State Park, on the shore of Lake Michigan, is one of the most intact examples of a Michigan state park developed in the 1930s and 1940s under National Park Service guidelines.

Most of the park's buildings were designed ...