Solon Hannibal Borglum America's First Cowboy Sculptor

1866 - 1922

This free-spirited Son of the West, sensitive to the changing era in which he lived, portrayed the western epic in marble and bronze. Our "Bucky O'Neill" monumental bronze is among his greatest works, and is acclaimed by art ...

Wheeler House

Wheeler House

Orig Date 1795

Remodeled 1860's

Westport Historical Society

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The National Register

Of Historic Places

Recorded Property

Marker is at the intersection of Myrtle Avenue and Avery Place, on the left when traveling north on Myrtle Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

President Lyndon B. Johnson

President Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, and Governor Karl Rolvaag enjoy the spray from Minnehaha Falls. On that day in 1964, however, Minneapolis was experiencing a drought. In order to create the beautiful display of the falls pictured ...

Squire's Tavern

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Welcome to Squire's Tavern

Home to the Barkhamsted Historical Society

and the Farmington River Coordinating Committee

The Barkhamsted Historical Society

Squire's Tavern, like the nearby river, has a story to tell for those wishing to listen. Step ...

Donelson’s Brigade at Murfreesboro

General Daniel P. Donelson’s Tennessee Brigade (CSA) advanced across these fields on December 31, 1862, around 11 a.m. in support of Chalmers’ Brigade. Donelson’s lines were broken by Chalmers’ retreat and by the Cowan ruins. The brigade split in two, ...

UDC And Kennesaw House

The Kennesaw Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy was organized July 29, 1898, in the parlors of the Kennesaw House on the second floor corner nearest the railroad station. Mrs. R. L. Nesbitt was elected the first president. There were ...

Eisenhower Interstate System

During the presidency (1953–1961) of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, the National System of Interstate and Defense highways was finalized and signed into law. Gaining support for the Interstate Highway System required foresight and courage ...

Monument to the Alliance and Victory

Yorktown Monument Commissioners , 1881

R. M. Hunt, Architect, Chairman

Henry Van Brunt, Architect,

J. Q. A. Ward, Sculptor

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Oskar J. W. Hansen, Sculptor of Liberty, 1957

Front of Monument:

At York on October 19 1781, after a ...

Sisters of the Holy Cross

Civil War Nurses

1861–1865. In response to Governor Morton’s call of October 1861, eighty Sisters of the Holy Cross under the leadership of Mother Angela served as military nurses. The Sisters became the forerunners of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1862 ...

Chatham

Here is Chatham, built about 1750 by William Fitzhugh. Here Robert E. Lee came to court his wife. In the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, the house was occupied by General Sumner. It was General Hooker’s headquarters for a ...