John Wilkes Booth's Escape

Civil War to Civil Rights

“My brother saw Booth as he came down the alley and turned into F Street.” Henry Davis, 1901.

Twelve-year-old Henry Davis and his brother often looked out the back window of their Ninth Street home ...

Reconstructed Powder Magazine

The original magazine was a one room, double-wall building constructed of logs. It was made bombproof by a thick earth covering. The inner space was about 11 feet square. It held 1000 rounds for the guns of the Lower River ...

Lover’s Leap

1827 - 1973

The poetic lines inscribed on the boulder below is a replica of those carved in 1827 by Thomas W. Farrar.

Thomas W. Farrar was the Founder and first Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge in Alabama 1821-22-24.

This historical site ...

First Post Office

Near this site in 1833, the log store of John S.C. Hogan, was this section’s only post office, serving settler from miles around. Eastern mail was delivered once a week from Niles, Michigan.

Erected by

Chicago’s Charter Jubilee

Authenticated by Chicago Historical Society

1937

City ...

Lovell G.A.R. Post 230 Civil War Memorial

In honor of the brave

Soldiers and Sailors

who fought to save the Union

in the Rebellion

1861 to 1865.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lake George Steamboat Company

Marker is on Beach Road near U.S. 9, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Stanley P Butchart 1928 - 2008 / C-140 Jetstar

Stanley P Butchart

1928 - 2008

After receiving primary and secondary civilian pilot training. Butchart enlisted in the U.S. Navy in July 1942. Upon his completion of flight training at Corpus Christi, Tex., he joined torpedo-bomber Air Group VT-51 and ...

Upson County

This County, created by Acts of the Legislature December 15 and 20, 1824, is named for Stephen Upson, a well known lawyer of Lexington, Ga. Lt. Gen. John B. Gordon, famed Confederate leader called “second to the great Lee” was ...

B-2 Spirit

Nicknamed "Stealth Bomber"

Manufacturer: Northrop Grumman Corporation

Production Period: 1993 to 1997

Number Produced: 21

Production Series: Production Blocks 10, 20, and 30

Roles: Originally designed as a land-based all-weather intercontinental heavy-bomber for the US Air Force for nuclear weapons ...

Hale - Joseph Home

Built in 1910

William M. and Evan Hale built this home on the 400 acres purchased by Gardner Hale in 1862. The Hales descended from two signers of the Mayflower compact, 1620. Purchased in 1993 by Carlo and Dianne Joseph, it ...