USS Pringle (DD-477)

Launched at Charleston, S.C. on May 2, 1942

Lost to Enemy Action off Okinawa on April 16,1945

In Memoriam

Vella Lavella - August 21, 1943

John Villani • Ernest F. Whitehead

Mindoro - December 30, 1944

James F. Bennett ...

Carp for sale

Live carp were kept in holding pens and fed corn, then sold when market conditions were favorable. Shipped live--sometimes 30,000 pounds at a time--by truck and railroad to fish markets in Chicago, Memphis, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and New York, carp ...

Too many carp

From 1881 to 1896, the state Fish Commission stocked about 100,000 common carp in 67 Wisconsin counties. Other states also introduced carp, but the fish thrived in the slow, shallow, weedy lakes of Dane County. Carp quickly became so abundant ...

How to catch 30,000 carp

Large carp populations provided constant work for Fish Camp crews. While the camp supervisor arranged carp sales to local businesses and commercial markets, the foreman and crewmembers seined fish in Dane County lakes. Lakes Kegonsa and Waubesa were the main ...

St. James Santee Parish Church

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Erected in 1768, this edifice, officially known as Wambaw Church, was situated on the King's Highway. It is the fourth church to serve St. James Santee Parish. The parish, founded in 1706 at the request of French Huguenot ...

Working at Fish Camp

A job at Fish Camp in McFarland was not for the lazy or faint of heart. A former crewmember summed up life at Fish Camp as "8-10 gnarly guys with chest waders, suitable clothing, tough skin, hands weathered by days ...

Fish Camp Launch

Carp Seining in the Yahara Lakes

Carp, introduced by European settlers, were stocked in Wisconsin waters as early as 1880. They thrived in shallow waters of rivers and lakes, reproduced rapidly and by 1900, anglers asked the state to begin a ...

A Missed Opportunity

The Battle of Chancellorsville

The morning of May 3d found the Confederate army heavily outnumbered and dangerously divided. "Stonewall" Jackson's flank attack the evening before had staggered the Union army but had not irretrievably damaged it. As the day broke, Jackson's ...

Archibald Rutledge Birthplace

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Archibald Hamilton Rutledge (1883-1973), educator, man of letters, and the first poet laureate of S.C., was born at this site, in a house known to the Rutledge family as "Summer Place." Rutledge, who grew up here and ...

Site of the Home of Juan Antonio Padilla

A native of Nacogdoches.

Land Commissioner, 1829.

Vice-Governor of the State of

Coahuila and Texas.

Active in the Texas Revolution.

Died in Houston in July, 1859.

His wife, Maria Montes del Padilla,

Died here, August 14, 1846.

Marker is at the intersection of North Street and Powers Street, ...