Wilbur Chapman

In White Cloud 25 years ago Wilbur Chapman, a 10 year old boy raised and sold a pig 'Pete' to help support a leper boy. His example started the Pig Bank Movement. 100,000 banks have been distributed to date. 'Feeding' ...

William Beaumont General Hospital /Biggs Air Force Base / Fort B

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William Beaumont General Hospital

This famous army hospital opened in 1921 and was named for Major & Surgeon William Beaumont, who distinguished himself as an army surgeon during the war of 1812. Later his observations of the stomach of Alexis St. ...

Macedonia Baptist Church

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This church, the first African-American Baptist church in Barnwell County, was founded in 1866 when Rev. James T. Tolbert preached in Blackville under a brush arbor; the first sanctuary was built in 1868. The church hosted the first ...

Howe Hall Plantation / Howe Hall Elementary School

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Howe Hall Plantation

Howe Hall Plantation was established here by Robert Howe about 1683 and passed to his son Job Howe (d. 1706), Speaker of the Commons House of Assembly 1700-05. Later owned by such prominent lowcountry families as ...

Crawford - Capper Burial Site

Samuel Crawford, publisher, attorney,

farmer, and financial agent, served

as Third Governor of Kansas, 1856-1868,

and as head of the 19th Kansas Volunteer

Cavalry, 1868-1869. His wife, Isabel,

the daughter of Enoch Chase, a founder

of Topeka, at age 18 became the youngest

First Lady of Kansas.

Arthur ...

Cooper Park

Daniel C. Cooper (1773-1818) perhaps more than any other deserves to be called the founder of Dayton. A surveyor with Israel Ludlow, Cooper settled in Dayton in the summer of 1796 and became titular owner of the town when the ...

Pascalis Plantation / Pascalina

Pascalis Plantation

Elizabeth Pascalis purchased these 790 acres in 1835, settled here with her son Cyril Ouviere, and brought the orphaned children of her daughter, here, to live. Cyril, a civil engineer, was a resident engineer constructing the Charleston-Hamburg railroad (world’s ...

Kemper's Brigade

August 30, 1862

5:30 p.m.

Kemper's Division, Right Wing (Longstreet)

Army of Northern Virginia, CSA

Kemper's Brigade

Col. Montgomery D. Corse

1st Virginia - 11th Virginia

7th Virginia - 17th Virginia

24th Virginia

"Above us, on a gentle rise, was ...

Victor C. Waryas Memorial Park

Victor C. Waryas

Memorial Park

Mayor, City of Poughkeepsie   1960 – 1964

Member, New York State Assembly   1965 – 1968

"It is not an exaggeration to say that Poughkeepsie is on the threshold of a complete rebirth. The ...

Arch C. Klumph

June 6, 1869

June 3, 1951

1911 - Founding member, Cleveland Rotary Club

1913 - President, Cleveland Rotary Club

1914-15 - Director, International Assn. of Rotary Clubs

1916-17 - 6th President, Rotary International

A business, civic, and cultural leader ...