Naval Air Station - Sanford

In November 1942, NAS Sanford was commissioned to meet the need for additional naval aviation training facilities. Originally planned for bomber training, within a year it converted to fighter plane training. A major portion of fighter pilots that served on ...

Waterworks

1762

“They have a Sett of Pumps which go by Water, which force the water up through leaden Pipes, from the River to the Top of the Hill, near an hundred feet.”

John Adams to Abigail Adams

1777

A bountiful spring supplied Bethlehem's water ...

Chatham Historic District

Scene of Washington’s Headquarters

and massing of Continental troops

prior to march on Yorktown August

27 – 29, 1781.

Morris County Heritage Commission

New Jersey Register of Historic Sites

Marker is on Main Street (County Route 124), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bulltown / Bulltown Battle

Bulltown

Important point in plan of Washington to establish water transportation to West. Salt was made here as early as 1792. Attack of whites in 1772 upon Captain Bull's Indian village here was among the causes of Dunmore's War.

Bulltown Battle

On ...

1890 Seattle Fire Department Bell

This bell is the remaining symbol of the leap made by city leaders to establish and equip a professional firefighting force after the Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889. On that day, the young metropolis of Seattle was devastated ...

The Latino Community

Roads to Diversity

This is the heart of Washington’s Latino community. Once centered here and in nearby Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights, the community now extends throughout the region.

As early as the 1910s, the Mexican, Ecuadoran, Cuban, and Spanish ...

Dukehart’s Barbershop and Bathhouse

Site of

In the 1850s a black man known only as “Dukehart” operated a barbershop that straddled the creek at this location. Typical of many barbershops of this period, Dukehart’s establishment also provided hot baths for his customers. The water was ...

Robert Earl Atkinson, Sr.

In Memory

Robert Earl Atkinson, Sr.

1899 - 1970

Co-founder of Dilmar Oil Company, Inc. in 1931 to sell Shell Oil products in Dillon and Marion Counties. In 1946 the Atkinson family became the sole owners of Dilmar. In 2010 ...

Tuscaloosa Formation

The sand clay formation here represents the first prominent Coastal Plain deposits laid upon an ancient floor of granites and gneisses. Southward this formation (Tuscaloosa Upper Cretaceous) becomes more and more deeply buried and contains marine beds. These rocks are ...

Battle of Kolb's Farm

June 22, 1864

The extension of the right wing of Federal forces S. of the Dallas Rd. threatening to outflank him, Johnston sent Hood’s Corps [CS] from the right (E. of Kennesaw) to this, the extreme left, with directions to stop ...