Mount Pleasant Waterworks

Side A

In the early 20th century, Mount Pleasant’s leaders and citizens believed that the town’s rural locale and lack of a quality water supply hindered residential growth and prosperity. The situation changed when the Cooper River Bridge opened ...

Battery C, First New York Light Artillery

Artillery Reserve - Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps - Artillery Reserve

Battery C

First New York Light Artillery

Four 3 inch rifles

Capt. Almont Barnes Commanding

July 3 At 3 a.m. moved to and occupied this position ...

The Ohio Statehouse / Lincoln at the Statehouse

In 1812, the Ohio legislature designated Columbus as the state capital,

with local landowners contributing land and resources for a capitol

building and penitentiary. The first Columbus statehouse, a Federal-style structure completed in 1816, stood on the northeast corner of

State and High ...

U.S.S. Slater

(DE-766)

Time: The Second World War, 1942

During the “dark days” of 1940, after the German conquest of France and prior to the U.S. involvement in World War II, England stood alone against the threat of Nazi world domination. An ...

Kiffin Yates Rockwell

Born in a house 500 yards south, he attended W & L University and V.M.I. Enlisted in the French Foreign Legion, August, 1914: incapacitated for infantry service by wounds, May 1915. Transferring to the French Air Force, he helped found ...

Battle of Jonesboro The Second Day

Sept. 1, 1864. The area bounded by the McPeak house (N), the Warren house (S), the R. R. (E), & U.S. 41 (W), was the scene of the final pitched battle of the Atlanta Campaign (begun May 7, '64).

Hardee’s ...

Johnston Schools / Johnston Educators

[Front] Johnston’s first school opened on this site in 1873. The Male and Female Academy was a boarding school, with Rev. Luther Broaddus as its first principal. Alternately a private and public school during its early history, it was reorganized ...

Western Bohemian-Fraternal Association

Zapadni Ceska-Bratrska Jednota

The ZCBJ Lodge Hall which 45 charter members built in 1907 is a tangible symbol of the ethnic heritage – social, fraternal and philosophical ideals of the Czech immigrants settling 7 miles north of Cadott.

SOKOL, a gymnastic organization, ...

Gravel Hill Battery

With its excellent field of fire, Gravel Hill Battery was the island’s key fortification against British ships. Constructed in the spring of 1776, after Fort Constitution’s inability to command the Hudson had become evident, it was destroyed during British ...

The Great Chain

was anchored

near this point.

1778 – 1783

Courtesy hmdb.org