The Great Flood

“Prepare for the worst!” the telephone call from upstream warned. About that time Whitewood Creek, swollen from spring snow and rain, broke over its banks within Deadwood, carving a path of destruction. The creek which now flows under the highway ...

A County Older Than The State

St. Clair County

Created in 1818 by territorial legislature. Named for Revolutionary hero, Gen. St. Clair. First settlers from Tennessee, Georgia – veterans of Creek Indian War, 1813-14.

Pell City established as industrial town in 1890 by George H. Pell of New ...

Historic Facade Replication

A fire in 1982 destroyed the historic Horace Clark and Apex buildings. The facades of the two buildings were replicated in 1997.

1900, Horace Clark Building (left); 1897, Apex Building (right).

Owner: Olympic Gaming SD, L.L.C.

Replication Architect: Spencer Raymond Ruff, A.L.A. N.C.A.R.B.

General ...

Camp Winnataska

Dr. Elwyn Ballard, Commissioner of Boy Scouts in the Birmingham, and his wife, Florence Aye Ballard, discovered this site in 1914, and became vital forces in the founding and growth of the camp. Boy Scouts and Boys Club members from ...

Gold Discovery in the Great Sioux Reservation

Gold sparkled in the prospector’s pan – the first discovery of the mineral in Deadwood Gulch. Exactly who the prospector was -- or the date and place of the discovery – is open to question. It is generally agreed that ...

Carry A. Nation

Temperance Leader

Smashed Bar in this building

January 23, 1901

Marker is on Factory Street (Kansas Route 43) near 2nd Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Restoration of the Land

Four hundred years ago, the Chesapeake Bay region abounded in forests, meadows, wetlands, and croplands. The National Museum of the American Indian restores these environments and is home to more than 27,000 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants representing 145 ...

Pennsylvania State Forest Academy

The Commonwealth’s first forestry school was established here at Mont Alto in 1903 and named the State Forest Academy in 1905. Among the first in the nation, it later merged with the Pennsylvania State University. Joseph T. Rothrock, the Commonwealth’s ...

Colonial Trading Path

Colonial Trading Path or “Lower Path” joined the heart of the Creek Nation on the Chattahoochee River to the English Trading Post in Ocmulgee Old Fields, now Ocmulgee National Monument. Here the chief towns of the ancient Creek Confederacy stretched ...

The Tatshenshini River

La rivière Tatshenshini

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The Tatshenshini River, known as Shawshe Chu in the Southern Tutchone language, begins in northwestern British Columbia and flows nearly 200 kilometers through the traditional territory of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations into the Gulf of Alaska. ...