Raynal C. Bolling

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Raynal C. Bolling

Born September 1, 1877

Foresaw His Nation's Call to Arms

And Left a Brilliant Career

To Prepare Himself for Service

In the World War

Colonel of Aviation

American Expeditionary Forces

He Laid the Foundation

For Our Aerial Warfare in France

He Fell In ...

Peapack Brook Rural Industrial Historic District

The confluence of Peapack Brook and the North Branch of the Raritan River became a rural industrial center during the 18th century when a saw mill, grist mill, tannery and bark mill were located nearby. The Peapack Brook Rural Industrial ...

Alabama State University / Tullibody

Side A

Founded 1866 as the Abraham Lincoln Normal School in Marion. Alabama by nine former slaves. Operated from 1868 until 1874 by the American Missionary Association. The school began to receive state funding in 1874, making it the first state-assisted ...

Jekyll Island Boat House Site , Shipshape for the Season

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There is very little photo documentation of

exactly what the Boathouse looked like during

the Club era. Club members rarely would have

been found in this area, It was typically used

by year-round employees.

The only visible evidence of the ...

Battery Buchanan

Fort Fisher’s Last Stand

These are the remnants of Battery Buchanan, named for Confederate Adm. Franklin Buchanan. It was constructed in 1864 to guard this point and also to serve as “a citadel to which an overpowered garrison might retreat.” It ...

McAllister's Battery

Battery D, 1st Illinois Light Artillery - McClernand's Division

U.S.

McAllister's Battery,

"D" 1st Ill. Lt. Art., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery was engaged here with 3 guns in repelling last attack upon McClernand's lines Sunday afternoon April 6, 1862.

Marker is ...

Bellville

This town, named for area pioneer Frances Bell Smith, was founded in 1890 on property owned by Pulaski Sikes Smith, John M. Wood, and Benjamin Berrien Brewton in then Tattnall County. Town lots were platted adjacent to the newly laid ...

West Settlement and Abolition Lane

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Augustus West, an African American, was born in Madison County, Virginia on March 20, 1814, and moved to Ohio in 1837. Legend has it that West was a runaway slave and worked as a farm laborer before designing a ...

Boston Post Road

68 Miles from Boston

This road is the first mail route in North America, established in 1673 by King Charles II of England.

In 1767, while Benjamin Franklin was Postmaster General, mileage was marked out with stone markers from Boston to New ...

Harrisburg Covered Bridge

400 yards south, this bridge was built over the East Fork of the Little Pigeon River in 1875 by Elbert Stephenson Early, an area resident who owned Newport Mills. The bridge had deteriorated and its loss was threatened until it ...