Soo Terminal Warehouse Limestone Entablature ca. 1912

Illinois Railway Museum obtained the limestone entablature displayed here in 1996. The Soo Line Freight House opened on April 1, 1914. It was located at Roosevelt and Canal in Chicago, Il. The entire complex which covered 11 city blocks was ...

Sir Nathaniel Johnson

Governor of South Carolina

Under his direction, Charleston was fortified, thereby making it one of three walled cities in North America, after Quebec, Canada and St. Augustine, Florida. As commander in chief of the armed forces, he successfully defended Charleston ...

Milford Station

Lee Avoids A Trap

Unable to crack Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s strongly fortified lines at Spotsylvania Court House, Union Gen. Grant ordered Gen. Winfield Hancock’s Second Corps to cross the Mattaponi River here at Milford Station and threaten the Confederate ...

Great Friends Meeting House

In 1639, Helen and Nicholas Easton, John Clarke, William Coddington and others left Portsmouth, the settlement founded in 1638 by Anne Hutchinson and others on the northern end of Aquidneck Island. They came south and founded Newport. Newport’s European settlers ...

Matchless Mine

Historic Landmark

Matchless Mine

Horace Tabor's legendary wealth came, in part, from the earth beneath this cabin. Following Mr. Tabor's death in Denver in 1899, his second wife, Baby Doe, returned to live out her life here.

Marker can be reached from East ...

Oakland Plantation

[Front]:

This house was built in 1823 by Dr. Thomas Collins Austin (1790-1883), physician and planter. Austin attended the Medical University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and practiced medicine here for sixty years. His office, just north of the house, was demolished ...

O’Neal’s Brigade at the Ravine

July 20, 1864. Not until O’Neal’s Alabama & Mississippi troops [CS] plunged down the wooded slope from Collier Rd., did the formation of Geary’s [US] refused line & the re-entrant angle created thereby, become apparent to them.

Geary’s right (Jones’ brigade) ...

The Burlington Zephyrs / Articulated Trains

The Burlington Zephyrs

The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy introduced the three-car Zephyr, the first in a series of lightweight stainless steel streamliners, in 1934. The Zephyr (later called Pioneer Zephyr) captured national attention with an initial Denver-Chicago run of 13 hours, ...

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Depot

Built 1907

This building has been placed on

The National Register of

Historic Places

By the United States Department of the Interior.

Atchinson, Topeka & Sante Fe

Railroad Depot

Built 1907

Kingman's early existence depended upon the railroad. The town's ...

Catoosa County

Created December 5, 1853, the county has an Indian name. Ringgold bears the name of Major Samuel Ringgold, who died of wounds received at the Mexican War battle of Palo Alto in 1846.

Taylor’s Ridge, visible for miles, is named for ...