Inventing Flight: The Centennial Celebration

On this site, from July 3 through July 20, 2003, the world focused its attention on Dayton as the Birthplace of Aviation for the one hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight and as a Signature Event of the ...

War Efforts at Home

We Answered the Call

In Beatrice, industries pooled resources to obtain defense contracts by creating Homestead Industries, Inc. This "war production pool of industries" included Dempster Industries, Store Kraft Manufacturing, W.M. Haith Tank Works, Beatrice Steel Tank, Petersen and F.D. Kees ...

The Battle of Hobkirk Hill

The Battle of Hobkirk Hill

Revolutionary War April 25, 1781

Took Place on this ridge

The Continental Army was commanded by General Nathaniel Greene and The British by General Lord Rawdon

Marker is on Kirkwood Lane, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Action at Logtown

Logtown was a cluster of log houses one mile north of the colonial town of Camden. The American army approached Camden from the northeast on April 19, 1781. General Greene ordered Captain Robert Kirkwood and his company of Delaware Continentals ...

Oatman, Arizona

Elevation 2700 Feet

Oatman was founded about 1908. By 1931,

the areas mines which had produced over

1.8 million ounces of gold. By the mid 1930's,

the boom was over and in 1942 the last

remaining mines were closed as nonessential

to the war ...

South Battery

The army built this gun line, known as the South Battery, around 1840, while the present Fort Trumbull was under construction. By 1879, this battery contained eight cannon of two types, six Rodmans and two Parrotts. A low protective wall ...

Chattahoochee County

Chattahoochee County, created by Act of February 13, 1854, was cut off from Muscogee and Marion Counties. It was named for the Chattahoochee River. Its courthouse, constructed in 1854, was built of select heart lumber from the Long Leaf Pine ...

Cain- Matthews- Tompkins House

(Front text)

This house, built ca. 1910 for Columbia businessman John Jefferson Cain (1869-1929), was designed by William Augustus Edwards (1866-1939), a prominent regional architect. Cain, who moved to Columbia in 1899, became one of the state’s leading contractors and ...

Backhaus Estate

Kewaskum, Wisconsin

The Backhaus Family emigrated from Prussia to America in 1850 and purchased this 135-acre farm, parcel by parcel, from 1853-1864. They lived in an unfinished log cabin that has long since been replaced by this Victorian, 3-story cream city ...

North Battery

Between 1875 and 1876, the army built this installation for heavy guns, known as the North Battery, to strengthen the military effectiveness of Fort Trumbull. Designed for five cannon aimed toward the water, the battery contained four gun platforms located ...