Greenbrier Military School

First school was established 1808-09 by Dr. John McElhenney and chartered as an academy in 1812. Used as barracks and hospital during War between the States. The present buildings were erected in 1921.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 219 ...

W. S. Brooks High School

The first public high school for African Americans in Calvert County was opened in 1938 and served until desegregation in 1966. Named for William Sampson Brooks (1865–1934). Born in Calvert County, Rev. Brooks was an advocate of education, 44th Bishop ...

Birthplace of John Carroll

Born 1735 — Died 1815

First archbishop in United States, 1808. At request of Congress he accompanied Benj. Franklin, Saml. Chase and Chas. Carroll of Carrollton to Quebec in an effort to have Canada unite with the thirteen colonies in the ...

Site of First Church Building in Cuthbert, Georgia

The first church building in Cuthbert was erected on this site in 1839. Deacons Stephen Lundy and Allen Moye bought this lot from Jane Reynolds in 1837. The congregation of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, constituted in 1831, moved from their ...

Jacob Motte House

circa 1731

Standing on land bought from Robert Tradd, which was part of lot 60 of "Grand Modell" of 1672. Early Georgian house built by Jacob Motte, prominent Huguenot and one time royal treasurer of province. Original paneling from second ...

Montgolfier Brothers

1783

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joseph and Etíenne de Montgolfier, brothers living in France in the ...

15th Alabama Infantry

Second Battle of Manassas

August 28, 1862

7:15 p.m.

Trimble's Brigade, Ewell's Division

Left Wing (Jackson)

Army of Northern Virginia, CSA

15th Alabama Infantry

Maj. A. A. Lowther

"My position in line at this fence was in the immediate rear of Alonzo Watson. We were both on our ...

Bisbee Golf Club

* USA *

Work Program

WPA

Bisbee Gold Club

Club House

Erected A.D. 1936

In Cooperation With The

City of Bisbee

O.P. No. 65-2-81

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Lincoln Boys in 1854

The Springfield "urban" environment that shaped the childhood of the Lincoln boys was a far cry from the "backwoods wilderness" their father knew as a child. "Pay schools" and academies, railroad trains and fancy carriages, circuses and Sunday schools, hardware ...

The First Presbyterian Church of Charleston

Organized 1731 / Incorporated 1784

Originally founded by twelve Scottish families, it was familiarly known in its early history as the Scots' Kirk.

The present church replaced an earlier one, which had been enlarged once before the American Revolution and ...