Aviation Tragedy

In the evening hours of December 6, 1953 four F-84D jet aircraft of 128th Fighter Bomber Squadron of the Georgia Air National Guard crashed near this site. They were returning from a routine weekend training flight from the Miami area ...

State Flag

In 1905 the Legislature adopted as the state flag one which was designed by Colonel Le Roy Reeves, a native and resident of Johnson City. The three stars represent the three grand divisions of Tennessee. The flag was first raised ...

New York Information Technology Center

55 Broad St

This 1960s American office building has been ripped apart and rewired with a 21st-century communications infrastructure that can instantly connect its tenants with sites around the world. Famous in the 1980s as the high finance offices of ...

A County Older Than the State, Autauga County

Created in 1818 by an act of

Alabama Territorial Legislature.

Autauga Indians lived on creek

from which the county takes its name.

Autaugas were members of the Alibamo tribe.

They sent many warriors to resist

Andrew Jackson's invasion in Creek ...

Mustering out of Confederate Army

General Johnston's men

paid off and mustered

out near here, May 1-2,

1865, after surrender

near Durham. April 26.

Marker is on North Main Street (U.S. 311) near Liberty Road (North Carolina Route 62).

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Battle of Lake Erie

In September 1813 the British squadron under R. Barclay sailed from Amherstburg to collect desperately needed food supplies. They were met by the larger, more heavily armed American squadron commanded by O. Perry. The British had the initial advantage of ...

Redcliffe Plantation

State Historic Site

About Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site

Redcliffe Plantation was the home of James Henry Hammond (1807-1864) and three generations of his descendants. Hammond whose political career included terms as a United States Congressman, Governor of South Carolina and United ...

Oketeyeconne / Chattahoochee Theater

Oketeyeconne

Oketeyeconne, or Okitiyakani, was a Hitchiti-speaking Lower Creek town located near here on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River south of Sandy Creek during the late frontier period. Described in 1799 by Benjamin Hawkins, “. . . the little ...

The Carillon Battlefield

In the mid-18th century, this battlefield was a focal point in the Seven Years’ War, a world war between France and Great Britain. Here the two super-powers struggled for control of the Lake Champlain Lake George water highway, the strategic ...

Flatiron Building

This early skyscraper, originally named the Fuller Building, was completed in 1902 from plans of D.B. Burnham & Company. Its triangular shape caused it to become generally known as the Flatiron Building. This was one of the early buildings to ...