Red Boiling Springs

Enlistment Center and Civil War Hospital

Red Boiling Springs has long been a landmark in Macon County. It was a central crossroads for both Federal and Confederate forces during the Civil War.

The war came home for local residents on September 24, ...

DC Recorder of Deeds Building/WPA Era Murals

515 D Street, NW

DC’s Art Deco/Art Moderne Recorder of Deeds Building (1941) houses city land records. Many notable African Americans have served as recorders of deeds since President Garfield appointed Frederick Douglass to the post in 1881. These include ...

Rebecca Nurse Homestead

1678

In 1636 Francis Weston was granted this land upon which he laid out a farm. This property was purchased by Governor John Endicott in 1648, and in 1678 Francis and Rebecca Nurse moved here and built a house. In March, ...

Albert Pike Monument

[pedestal, north face:]

Albert Pike

Vixit

Laborum Ejus Supersites Sunt Fructus

Author - Poet

[pedestal, west face:]

Scholar - Soldier

[pedestal, south face:]

Erected 1901 by the Supreme Council of

the A. A. S. R. of Freemasonry

for the S. ...

Binkelmann Brewery

Born in Wurtenburg, Germany on January 2, 1828, David Binkelmann came to Grass Valley in 1853, after only a year as a new immigrant in New York. He mined for a time on Wolf Creek, then worked in a bakery. ...

Blythe Ferry

One of the worst acts of "man's inhumanity" took place when an entire race of peoples were driven from their lands in 1838. It was here at Blythe Ferry that approx. 9000 Cherokees and Creeks camped while waiting to cross ...

Blythe Ferry

Around 1809, William Blythe, a Cherokee, established a ferry at this site to provide transportation for the settlers to the west and the Cherokees to the east. During the 1838 Trail of Tears, it was an important crossing, and it ...

William (Uncle Bill) Lewis

1810-1896

William Lewis was born in Winchester, Tennessee, in 1810 as a slave. When he was old enough, Lewis was taught the blacksmith trade. By working at odd times, he was able to save enough money to purchase the freedom of ...

Tsukuba

1880-1980

13 gun – 1034 ton

Naval Cadet Training

3 masted screw corvette

Commanded by Capt. Norimichi Aiura

Imperial Japanese Navy

First Japanese naval vessel to visit Canadian water 10 June 1880

Erected on the occasion of the visit of the Japan Training Squadron

J.D.S. Katori – J.D.S. ...

Old Elko Fire Bell

According to the early history of Elko, Nevada, this curfew and fire bell played a vital role for local citizenry. It often rang to signal disastrous fires, deaths of celebrities, and celebrations.

Harbinger of both good tidings and bad, the ...