Commanding Officer's Quarters & Kitchen

In 1859, steamboat entrepreneur George Alonzo Johnson built a riverside home for his bride, Estefana Alvarado. Now known as the Commanding Officer's Quarters, the home is believed to be Arizona's oldest Anglo-built adobe building. In the devastating Colorado River flood ...

Schwartz & Raas and San Angelo National Bank Building

These three Victorian commercial structures were built during the local economic boom of the 1880s. Among the earliest permanent buildings in San Angelo, they represent the early development of the city as the leading commercial center of the area. In ...

The Cos Cob Art Colony

The Cos Cob Art Colony

During the early 1890s American impressionist artists John H. Twachtman and J. Alden Weir began teaching summer art classes here in Cos Cob to students of New York's Art Students League. Edward and Josephine Holley ran ...

Carter G. Woodson Birthplace

Carter Godwin Woodson was born about three miles east on 19 December 1875. As a youth he mined coal near Huntington, W. Va. He earned degrees at Berea College (B.L., 1903), University of Chicago (B.A. and M.A., 1908), and Harvard ...

The Thomas Party

In 1866 William Thomas, his son Charles, and a driver named Schultz left southern Illinois bound for the Gallatin Valley, Montana. Travelling by covered wagon they joined a prairie schooner outfit at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, and started over the Bridger ...

Carter G. Woodson

1875 - 1950

Three miles east is the birthplace of the noted teacher, educator and historian, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. He was the founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Journal of Negro History, originated negro ...

Fifth Company Battalion Washington Artillery

Cobb's Artillery Battalion

Fifth Company Battalion Washington Artillery

Four 12-PDR. Napoleons, Two James Rifles

Capt. Robert Cobb's Artillery Battalion.

Breckinridge's (Bate's) Div. Breckinridge's Corps.

Capt. C.H. Slocomb, Commanding,

1st Lieut. W.C.D. Vaught, 2d Lieut. A.J. Leverich.

1st Lieut. J.A. Chalaron, 2d Lieut. C.G. Johnsen.

Nov. 25th, 1863, 4 ...

Ohio Artillery

Ohio Artillery.

Nov. 23-25, 1863.During the engagements, the Ohio Batteries operated as indicated below:

Battery A Capt. Wilbur F. Goodspeed / Guarding fords of the Tennessee River.

Battery B Lieut. Norman A. Baldwin / Supporting General Sherman's crossing.

Battery C Capt. Marco B. Gary ...

Cartmill's Gap

This gap, just west, is named for Henry Cartmill who acquired land nearby on Purgatory Creek. During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), conflicts between Indians and settlers increased in this area. In 1757, Indians laid waste to several nearby ...

Zanesville and Muskingum County Artwall

This is a “rubbing” wall which depicts the proud

history of Zanesville and Muskingum County.

Historic images are surrounded by tiles

depicting foliage from the Ohio Buckeye tree.

The images are in order of their dates

beginning with the image to your right and

continuing around ...