Georgia Railway and Power Company Trolley Waiting Station

The Georgia Railway and Power Company, predecessor of Georgia Power, built this trolley waiting station in 1923. The waiting station served Druid Hills residential development when the streetcar line on Ponce de Leon Avenue was extended from downtown to East ...

Historic McGee-Spaulding District

Berkeley History

The District was part of the land granted by the king of Spain in 1820 to the Luis Peralta Family. The land was later purchased from Jose Domingo Peralta by four San Francisco businessmen. In 1855, James McGee (1814-1899), ...

The Alpha Building

The Alpha Saloon and Hall occupied this site until the fire of 1855. After the fire, another wood frame building was erected and a store and barbershop occupied it until the fire of 1862 which destroyed the new building. Using ...

Quinn Pass

Thomas P. Quinn, born in 1869 in New Jersey, had a mine near here and dug a cistern to catch water. He built a house just north of this sign and lived there until old age forced him to move ...

Newport Harbor

Newport Harbor has been a center of commerce and industry since the days Narragansetts and Wampanoags, Native Americans, fished the waters of this bay. The first European explorer was Giovanni da Verranzzano, an Italian who sailed for the King of ...

Caspar Wistar

One Red Rose

is annually paid by

Trinity Reformed Church

to the heirs of

Caspar Wistar

of Philadelphia who in 1738

gave 100 acres of land

for church and school purposes

The congregation was formed

by Reformed families

among the Tulpehocken settlers

The first communion service

was conducted by

Reverend John Philip Boehm

October ...

Camp Laguna

Desert Training Center

Camp Laguna operated from April 1942 to April 1944. It was one of twelve such camps built in the southwestern deserts to train United States troops during World War II.

The Desert Training Center, a simulated theater of operations, ...

Freedmen's Camp

After the Union victory at Fort Donelson, slaves escaping from nearby farms and iron foundries flocked to the area seeking freedom and protection. By March 1863 some 300 refugees lived here at the freedmen's camp that came to be known ...

Site of Mission San Pedro

Y San Pablo De Bicuner

To protect the Anza Trail where it forded the Colorado River, the Spanish founded a pueblo and mission nearby on January 7, 1781. Threatened with the loss of their land, the Quechans (Yumas) attacked this strategic ...

American Legion - Post 58

Side A

On April 20, 1934, a temporary charter was issued for Gen. Joe Wheeler Post 58, Courtland, Alabama.

On November 12, 1946, a permanent charter was granted and the name changed to Wiley Horton Post 58 in honor of the ...