Giorgio Di Sant’Angelo

Fashion Walk of Fame

Di Sant’Angelo exemplified the individual designer. He rose to prominence during the late 1960s when exuberant youth styles dominated. Inspired by non-western dress and hippie anti-fashion, di Sant’Angelo’s clothes were an eclectic mix if vibrant fabrics, ...

Charles James

Fashion Walk of Fame

This Anglo-American couturier is widely regarded as one of the greatest fashion designers in history. Having begun his career as a milliner in the 1920s, James later incorporated the sculptural techniques of hat making into his ...

Ilmbacher Hof

[Marker text in German:

Aus einer alten Chronik:

„Der nachmalige Kloster Ilmbachische Hof war sonst ein Bürgerhaus mit einer öden Hofstadt dabei. Das Kloster kaufte beides und ließ 1742 ein grösseres Gebaüde da aufführen und kaufte mehrere Weinberge und Felder dazu". Seit ...

General Crook's Headquarters at Fort Omaha

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

Upon the recommendation of Lt. General William T. Sherman, in 1866 the Adjutant General’s office created the Department of the Platte which included present-day Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Montana and a portion of southeastern Idaho. As departmental ...

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

Three miles west is the central unit of the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site which includes the 17th president’s small tailor shop, the home in which he lived from 1838 to 1851, a museum, and administrative offices. Other units are ...

Fort Omaha Balloon School

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

Until after World War I, no other method equaled a soldier’s ability to send intelligence information directly to the ground by telephone from an observation balloon.

Fort Omaha entered America’s balloon and aviation history in April 1909 when ...

Observation Balloon Training at Fort Omaha

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

After nine years of inactivity, Fort Omaha reopened in 1905 as a school for noncommissioned Signal Corps officers. A structure to house the army’s only dirigible (balloon airship) was completed in 1908, and the first dirigible flew ...

Fort Omaha Knights of Columbus Assembly Hall

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

During World War I, citizen participation in relief and aid societies was exceptional across America. Omaha’s Red Cross chapter led all cities in the country in per capita membership.

In addition to the Red Cross providing a canteen ...

Bumpass’s Hell

Kendall Vanhook Bumpass

Our guide [Mr. K.V. Bumpass,] after cautioning us to be careful where we stepped, that the surface was treacherous, suddenly concluded with Virgil that the “descent to Hell was easy” for stepping upon a slight inequality in the ...

Allegheny County Soldier's Monument

(Civil War)

Erected to the memory of the 4,000 brave men of Allegheny County. Who fell in the great struggle to maintain the integrity of our union. The eye of God rests upon their graves even when unmarked by man. And ...