Rosecliff & Its Neighbors: Fading Glamour & Modern Revival

The 1940s brought enormous change to houses on this block of Bellevue Avenue as Gilded Age glamour faded due to demolitions, fire, and acquisition of many properties for use by schools. Increasing income and real estate taxes and a ...

G.A.R. Soldiers of All Wars Memorial

[[ Dates Carved Around Top ]]

1847 • 1861 • 1896 • 1917

[[ Left Panel ]]

Mexican War

1847

( Rest - Unreadable )

[[ Above Front Panel]]

G. A. R.

[[ Front Panel ]]

(Eagle & Crest)

G. A. R.

L. W. Shields Chairman

Building Committee ...

The Armed Forces from Clyde Town-ship

In Memory of the members of the armed forces from Clyde Town-ship who gave their lives for their country.

Erected by the Town of Clyde, its citizens, and the Chamber of Commerce.

World War I

PFC. Melvin Rhinehart

World War II

CPL Ernest Case • ...

Territorial Capitol of Colorado

1862 to 1867

This Tablet is the

property of the State of Colorado

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From 1862 to 1867

Golden was the Territorial

Capital of Colorado

Legislative sessions were held in this building (erected by W.A.H. Loveland) and in others, now demolished, across the street.

Golden

was named for Thomas ...

Wheel of Progress

Dedicated to the

Arizona Mining, Sand and Gravel Industry

by E.J. Cyr on 1/1/93

History: Built in 1905 by Ingersoll Rand for the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co. in Miami, Arizona to power a 150 ton air compressor.

Antique wheel weighs 60,000 pounds

Engineered and assembled ...

Joseph Funk

March 9, 1777

Dec. 24, 1862

“Father of song in Northern Virginia”

Teacher, translator, author

Publisher, printer

In 1816 he published “Choral Music”; in 1832 the first edition of “Genuine Church Music.” Here in 1847 he and his sons began printing, first the fourth edition ...

The Meeting of the Rivers

Long known to the Indian who used the two great rivers as his highways for trade and war, this junction of the Ohio and the Mississippi was first sighted by Europeans when Marquette and Joliet glided past in 1673. Ten ...

Defense of Snodgrass Hill

Thomas' stand here saved the Union army from destruction

After the Union right collapsed on the afternoon of September 20, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas rallied all the Federals he could find and positioned them on this ridge. Determined stands by ...

Old Cokesbury and Masonic Female College and Conference School

The National Register

of Historic Places:

Old Cokesbury and

Masonic Female College

and Conference School

Marker is at the intersection of College Drive and Asbury Road on College Drive.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Confederate General Hospital

Harrisonburg Female Academy

Harrisonburg was Rockingham County’s seat of government and largest town, and it was an ideal site for a hospital. When the Civil War began in 1861, although the railroad had not yet extended to Harrisonburg, the town sat ...