The Mackenzie Papineau Battalion of the International Brigades

Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

This monument commemorates the gallant men and women of British Columbia and Canada who offered their lives to defend the principles of democracy and served as the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigades in defence of the ...

Navigation of the Colorado River

Because overland travel in early Texas was an enterprise often fraught with hardship, frustration, and danger, many individuals looked to rivers for a solution to the problem. From 1829 to the Civil War, optimistic Texans attempted to ply the area's ...

Site Selection / Architectural Features

Site Selection

In 1791, President George Washington (who was raised in Stafford County 10 miles south of this site at Ferry Farm) appointed three Commissioners to oversee construction of the new federal capital city (later named Washington, D.C.). The Commissioners sent ...

Creation of the Province of British Columbia

Création de la Province de Columbie-Britannique

[English]

The province of British Columbia was created on July 20, 1871. Formerly a crown colony established by the union in 1866 of Vancouver Island with the mainland colony of British Columbia, the addition of the ...

Camden - Strategic Key

At the start of the American Revolution, Camden was located here, just south of the present city. It was home to at least thirty families, a Presbyterian church, and a Quaker meetinghouse. With its court house, stores, artisans, and grist ...

Nathaniel Mitchell

(1752-1813)

This Federalist served as the governor of Delaware between 1805-1808. He was born in Laurel in 1752, attended Old Christ Church, and is buried in this churchyard. Mitchell was commissioned as adjutant of militia 1775, promoted captain in 1776, and ...

Walton County Confederate Monument

Obelisk

To the memory of the Confederate Dead of Walton Co. Florida. Erected by the Ladies of the Walton County Female Memorial Association.

Base

Southwest face

Angus D. McLean, Col., 6th Fla. Vols.

Murdoch M. Gillis, Capt. 6th Fla. ...

Florida's First Confederate Monument

Shortly after the Civil War, the women of Walton County organized a "Ladies' Memorial Association," with Jeannett I. McKinnon as president, to erect a marble monument honoring Walton County's Confederate dead. The Association raised $250, and the monument was first ...

Atkins Glen

The Glen is a deep ravine cut through sandstone rock by Bear Brook. Glen Road to the

south follows an old Indian path up the hill called “Spook Bergh” (Ghost Hill) by the

early Dutch. Tradition says that a cave in ...

Florida Education Association: The Beginning

Florida teachers and administrators numbering 700 met here in Chautauqua Hall for a "teachers institute" called the Florida Chautauqua. The meeting was called to order by J.A. Graham, City Superintendent of Schools, Key West, at 12:30 p.m., on Thursday March ...