Getting There from Here

The road beside this wayside exhibit is west main street. It was one of the main routes into and out of the City of Decatur all during the time of Lincoln's travels as a lawyer on the Eighth Judicial Circuit, ...

The Zetterström Fountain

Vasa Museum

Text in Swedish:

Zetterström-Fontänen

Mustycke som användes för att spola tunnlar

under Vasa vid bargningen 1961.

Konstructör: Dykarpionjären Arne Zetterstöm (1917-1945)

Donatorer: Flygt AB och Marinen

Text in English:

The Zetterström Fountain

Nozzle used for making tunnels under the warship Vasa

when it was salvaged in ...

St. Matthew’s Church

Erected in 1873

Oldest original church building in Kenosha

Marker is at the intersection of 7th Avenue and 59th Place, on the right when traveling north on 7th Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Seashore Trolley Museum

The founding of the Seashore Trolley Museum on this site in July, 1939, established the private railway preservation movement in the United States. Six young men under the subsequent 50 year leadership of Theodore F. Santarelli de Brasch acquired a ...

Their Fame Liveth

Canada Remembers

Lieutenant Samuel Hooker,

Sergeant Joseph Hunt, Pri-

vates James Daig, Thomas

Fearnsides, Richard Hugill,

George Longley, Laurence

Meade, John Pegler, John Smith,

and John Wale of the First

Battalion of the Eighth

(King's) Regiment of Foot; and

Sergeant ...

The Earl and Lillian Carter Home

James Earl Carter, Sr. and his family moved into this middle-class rural dwelling as its second owners in 1928, six years after the home had been built. Heating was accomplished by fireplaces and wood stoves.

Initially, there was no running water ...

The Carter Family Garden

Earl Carter always had a garden to add variety to the family's meals. A community sweet potato garden was also planted and shared among the residents who lived nearby. This garden was strictly for the Carter family's use although the ...

Catch the Mules

Here, at the barn, the day started early.

During the ... seasons all the workers arose early each morning at 4:00 a.m...., wakened by the ringing of a large farm bell. We would go to the barn and catch the mules ...

Wright Brothers in the Albemarle

On September 8, 1900, Wilbur Wright arrived here at the Norfolk and Southern Railroad Depot, then proceeded by boat to Kitty Hawk. The Wright Brothers made several trips through Elizabeth City, the shipping and supply center for northeastern North Carolina.

Photograph ...

The Crawfords Memorial

(Left)

Herbert Boyd (H.B.) Crawford

U.S. Navy

Honorably Discharged

April 8, 1946

During World War II with Japan

his back was broken & both

legs were paralyzed when his

cargo ship was torpedoed

(Right)

Mabel Garvin Tarver Crawford

U.S. Navy

Honorably Discharged

May 6, 1945

Presented the Exceptional Award

By The National Security ...