Earl Webb

Baseball Record Holder

William Earl Webb was born in White County, Tennessee, on September 17, 1897. His family moved to Bon Air and then Ravenscroft, where Earl worked in the coal mines and played baseball for local teams. He began in ...

Potawatomie Baptist Manual Labor Training School

Student farm labor was intended to make this boarding school self-supporting. The building, completed in the spring of 1850, housed approximately ninety Indian children. Eleven years later, the school was closed due to funding failures and the Civil War.

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Lincoln In Petersburg

Tears at Fort Mahone

On the morning of April 3, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln awoke at City Point to the news that Petersburg had fallen just hours before. He immediately arranged to visit the city and meet with Gen. Ulysses S. ...

Site of Mission Santa Cruz de San Saba

Founded among the Lipan Apache Indians by Franciscan Missionaries in 1757 through the financial aid of the Count of Regla. - Sacked and left in ruins by the Comanches in 1758. - - Here perished Padres Alonso Giraldo de Terreros ...

The National Building Museum

Civil War to Civil Rights

“It’s too bad the damn thing is fire proof,” General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1887.

The nation’s only museum dedicated to American achievements in architecture, urban planning, construction, engineering, and design is appropriately housed in one ...

Harrisburg Cemetery

In remembrance of the pioneers who gave their lives to the development of the west.

Marker can be reached from Salome Road 5.2 miles south of U.S. 60.

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P.T. Barnam

First stop of record with own circus troupe

was 1/2 mile S.E., November 12-13, 1836. No

show is recorded, but Barnum preached a sermon.

Marker is at the intersection of N Wesleyan Blvd. (Bypass U.S. 301) and Airport Road, on the ...

Southern Battery – 1777

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“began the works at 3 places on Mount Independence.” -

Col. Jeduthan Baldwin, June 20, 1777

On June, 1777, American Chief Engineer Jeduthan Baldwin wrote in his journal, “in the afternoon went with Col. Kosiusko ...

Lincoln In Petersburg

Presidential Visit to Centre Hill

At noon on April 7, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and his party left City Point for Petersburg in a special train on the newly repaired City Point Railroad, arriving in the city half an hour later. ...

The Old Brick Capitol

[Old Capitol Prison]

The Old Brick Capitol

July 4, 1815

The cornerstone of the Old Brick Capitol

built by Washington citizens

to house the Congress

was laid on this site.

The Congress met here from December 13, 1815

through March ...