Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station

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The Ohio General Assembly established the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station in 1882. From its inception until 1892, the Station occupied 17 acres on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State University before relocating to 470 acres in Wayne County. ...

Mary Surratt's Boarding House

Civil War to Civil Rights

"The nest in which the egg was hatched."President Andrew Johnson, April 1865.

The building at 604 H Street, today Golo’s Chinese Restaurant, is intimately connected with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater, just five ...

Battle of Black Point

On June 10, 1779, a British raiding party under Lieutenant James Moody marched from Tinton Falls to Black Point.

When embarking for Sandy Hook they were attacked by a detachment of the Continental Army.

The Americans lost eleven, killed or wounded, including ...

Native Americans

Assateague's first visitors were small bands of nomadic Indians who had permanent settlements on the mainland. These hunters and gatherers came seasonally to the island to enjoy the rich harvest of waterfowl, fish, oysters, clams, and plant foods.

Little is ...

Watkins Mill

This farm established by Walthus L. Watkins, centered around his woolen factory built 1860-1861. It operated for 40 years with mass production machines. This farm (Bethany) also boasted a grist mill, flour mill and saw mill, church and octagonal school ...

Battle at Picacho

April 15, 1862

Dedicated to those Confederate frontiersmen who occupied Arizona Territory, C.S.A., created by President Jefferson Davis, February 14, 1862. Just two months later, ten of Capt. Sherod Hunter's Confederate Cavalrymen successfully defended Picacho Pass against thirteen Union soldiers who ...

Atlanta's Outer Line

Johnston’s army [CS] moved to this side of the river July 9-10, 1864. French’s div., Stewarts A.C. was posted astride the R.R. to guard the left bank pending Federal crossings up river.

July 18. With the Federal advance S. to Peachtree ...

History of the Alabama State Bar

On December 13, 1878, a meeting was held in Montgomery for the purpose of forming a bar association, and on January 15, 1879, delegates from each county met for five days at a preliminary conference in the Hall of the ...

Changes at Fort Ancient

Many changes have occurred at Fort Ancient over the last 2,000 years. Hopewell Indians built the site and used it as a ceremonial and social gathering area. The Fort Ancient Indians lived in the South Fort 500 years after the ...

Jonathan Coggswell Farley / Montgomery's First Election

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Jonathan Coggswell Farley

1798-1864Farley acquired two lots on this site in 1817. Here he built both the town's first frame store and first frame two-story building, his house. In Farley's store, an election was held January 3, 1820 to create ...