The “Austin Statesman”

Begun as the “Democratic Statesman” in 1871 by the Democratic Party, in opposition to radical reconstruction government in Texas. Quickly passed into private ownership popular first editor was attorney John Cardwell.

Published daily since 1873, paper merged with “Austin American” in ...

Steamboats, Trains, and Barges

The Mississippi River has long been a major artery for trade and transportation.

For thousands of years, Indians traveled on the river by canoe. By the 1850s, rivertowns like Hastings boomed as steamboats brought settlers into the region. The steamboat era ...

Confederate General Hospital

Harrisonburg Female Academy

Harrisonburg was Rockingham County’s seat of government and largest town, and it was an ideal site for a hospital. When the Civil War began in 1861, although the railroad had not yet extended to Harrisonburg, the town sat ...

The Atomic Cannon

Model. M65 280 m.m.

Weight. 42,500 lbs.

Length. 42 feet

(1) One of only (3) three in existence, the other two are located at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma and the U.S. Army Ordinance Center in Aberdeen, Maryland. It was placed in service November 17, ...

Schooner Parallel “Blown to Atoms” 1887

The two-masted, 148-ton Parallel left San Francisco for Astoria, Oregon, with a mixed cargo & 42 tons of black powder & dynamite. Capt. W.C. Miller, fought against difficult winds for two days & finally gave up. The abandon-ship order ...

Lewisburg Battle

Confederate troops under Gen. Henry Heth here, May 23, 1862, were repulsed in attach upon division of Col. Geo. Crook's brigade. The Old Stone Church was used as a hospital. In his retreat, Heth burned bridge over Greenbrier at Caldwell.

Marker ...

The George Ducat House

56 Tradd Street

Charleston shipbuilder George Ducat constructed this two-story Charleston single house shortly after purchasing the property in 1739. The house is a rare surviving example of a Charleston residence constructed partly of Bermuda stone, a coral limestone imported from ...

Native Americans on the Georgia Coast

Long before Europeans arrived in the New World,

the Savannah area was occupied by Native Americans.

The earliest Paleoindian groups migrated into coastal

Georgia as early as 10,000 B.C. The hunter-gathers

took advantage of rich estuarine resources as well as

upland plants and animals. ...

Howe Hall Plantation / Howe Hall

[Front]

Howe Hall Plantation, an inland rice plantation, was established here by Robert Howe, who came to S.C. in 1683. His first house here was later described as “tolerable.” Howe’s son Job (d. 1706) built a brick plantation house here ...

Nathaniel Russell House

Nathaniel Russell House

has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America

1974

National Park Service

United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on Meeting Street ...