Salvation Army

At this site

the Salvation Army

began activities in

Victoria, June 26, 1887

Marker is at the intersection of Government Street and Yates Street on Government Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

St. Mary's Catholic Church

Built 1906-1907

This building has been placed on

The National Register of

Historic Places

By the United States Department of the Interior

St. Mary’s Catholic Church

Built 1906 – 1907

Constructed of locally quarried tufa stone, this Mission Revival building served as the Catholic church from 1906 ...

Market Square’s Main Gate Fountain

This historic fountain was originally erected near the turn of the century at the “edge of town” known as the Five Corners: Government, Douglas, Gorge and Hillside Streets.

The three-level fountain provided water for parched travellers [sic] and their thirsty horses, ...

"...what in your life you will never see again."

This building was the Professor Michael Jacobs residence which remained in the family from 1934 until 1901. One of the town's leading citizens, Professor Jacobs was a member of the Gettysburg College faculty from its foundation in 1832 until his ...

Electricity for the City of Attalla

In the fall of 1902, Captain William Patrick Lay, of Gadsden, began construction of a small hydro electric generating plant at the site of Wesson Mill on Big Wills Creek, just southwest of Attalla. The plant was constructed, in Lay’s ...

Battle of Chickamauga

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Nine miles west of here on Saturday and Sunday, September 19th and 20th, 1863, the bloody battle of Chickamauga was fought. Here, Federal forces of about 60,000 under Major-General William S. Rosecrans, U.S.A., fought the two day ...

Presidents Attended Service Here

(top):

Abraham Lincoln attended services at this church on November 19, 1863, the day he dedicated the National Cemetery and delivered his Gettysburg Address. The pew he occupied has been retained in the sanctuary.

(lower):

Dwight D. Eisenhower was a member of this ...

Battlefield Burials

The depressions to the right of the trail probably represent former graves of Confederate soldiers. The dead of both armies received hasty battlefield burials. Most were disinterred after the war, with the Union dead going to Glendale National Cemetery and ...

Matoaca Mill Site

Originally named the Providence Manufacturing Company, Matoaca Manufacturing (Mill) had its beginning here late in the 1700s on land then known as Olive Hill Plantation. Initially operated as a grist mill, by 1838 it was producing cotton cloth and paper. ...

Chicago's Passenger Stations

In the 1920's, Chicago had six major "steam road" passenger depots, along with numerous rapid transit and electric interurban stations.

The main building, or "headhouse," of only one of the six grand old stations (Dearborn) has survived, though for non-railroad use. ...