Hodgson Brothers Store and Boatways

Alexander R. Hodgson, H.U. Hodgson and John Edwin Hodgson, brothers, together with their families,came to Eau Gallie about 1883. they founded the Hodgson Brothers mercantile business at this

location in the 1890s. they later added a marine

ways and machine ...

Run of '89 North Boundary

At the opening of "Old Oklahoma", April 22, 1889, this was the north line for the Run starting at 12 o'clock noon. Prairies and hills in the 2,000,000 acre tract, south, were peopled by tens of thousands, homes were planted ...

Figures and Medallions of the Library Wing of Parliament Buildin

[Medallions, top row]

Milton – Sophocles – Shakespeare – Socrates – Dante – Homer

[Statues, anti-clockwise from the top left]

Colonel R.C. Moody

1813-1887

Commander of Royal Engineers in 1858, erected New Westminster as capital of B.C., planned the Cariboo Road.

David Thompson

1770 – 1857

Greatest ...

Beauregard's Headquarters

This house, "Ten Oaks", was headquarters for Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, Oct. 15-23, 1864, when he coordinated the movement of Gen. J.B. Hood's army, then marching across northeast Alabama enroute to Nashville. He and his retinue, including Gov. I.G. Harris of ...

Harbor City Hotel

A spur track for the Florida East Coast Railway was once located on the north side of this site. The track went out on a dock where freight and passengers were loaded onto river boats for the journey south.

In ...

First Bridge over Pawcatuck River

Near this spot was the ford or Indian trail used until the building of the first bridge over Pawcatuck River about 1712.

Marker is on Broad Street (U.S. 1), on the right when traveling east.

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The Mackenzie Papineau Battalion of the International Brigades

Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

This monument commemorates the gallant men and women of British Columbia and Canada who offered their lives to defend the principles of democracy and served as the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigades in defence of the ...

Gen. John B. Castleman House

This house was built prior to 1900 by Gen. John B. Castleman, a veteran of the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Gen. Castleman, from Louisville, KY., used this as his winter home for many years.

The General was active ...

Stage Lines Through Columbus

Nineteenth-century stagecoach operations in Texas were closely tied to mail delivery, and contracts with the U.S. Postal Service more often than not made the transportation of passengers and freight by stage economically feasible. As an early community on the transportation ...

Claude L. Herbert

To

Claude L. Herbert

Who gave his Life to save

others in the

Havens & Geddes Fire

This Memorial is erected

by his Comrades of

The

Spanish American War

and Patriotic Citizens

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