Famine Museum and Granuaile Centre, Louisburgh

Clew Bay Archeaological Trail site 12

Cluain Cearbhán - Meadow of the Buttercups

The Famine Museum in Louisburgh recounts local memories of the famine, presents coverage of the famine in the media, nationally and locally, and shows how links have been established ...

Site of Columbia High School

Described as "Collegiate Italian Renaissance" in style, this school was designed by J. Carroll Johnson, of Urquhart and Johnson, in Columbia. The cornerstone was laid in 1915 with Gov. Richard I. Manning as a featured speaker. Final classes were held ...

Site of Columbia Female Academy

Authorized by legislature 1792, the Columbia Female Academy was located here from about 1820 to 1883, when this property was leased to Columbia Public School Commissioners, two of whom still represent the Academy Board. The remodeled academy became the first ...

Pinson, Alabama

Pinson, one of Alabama’s oldest communities, was settled by General Andrew Jackson’s soldiers in the early 1800s, after victory at Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812. The community was originally known as Hagood’s Crossroads for settler Zachariah Hagood and ...

Julesburg in Ashes

The senseless slaughter of peaceful Cheyenne on November 29, 1864, at Sand Creek in Southeastern Colorado united the Cheyenne, Sioux and Arapaho Indians.Near here on January 7, 1865, a small band of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers attacked a stagecoach and wagon ...

A Bustling Household

Martin Van Buren Nat’l Hist Site

Lindenwald seems quiet today, but when Martin Van Buren lived here there was a stream of family, friends and political colleagues constantly coming and going. There was also an ever-changing mix of agricultural and ...

Blowing in the Wind

Gap-toothed and grumbling, the old windmill keeps vigil over the valley where a gravel road has replaced horse and wagon trails. The windmill is more than a machine - it symbolizes survival.The windmill grew up with the American West, supplying ...

Free Blacks of Israel Hill

Just to the west lies Israel Hill, settled in 1810-1811 by approximately ninety formerly enslaved persons who received freedom and 350 acres from Judith Randolph under the will of her husband, Richard Randolph, cousin of Thomas Jefferson. These "Israelites" and ...

Hardaway Alabama Artillery

Artillery Reserve - Hill's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Hill's Corps Artillery Reserve

McIntosh's Battalion Hurt's Battery

Hardaway Alabama Artillery

Two Whitworth 3 inch Rifles

July 1 The Whitworths were in position to the right of the Chambersburg Pike near the position of Pegram's Battalion. Opened ...

Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association

This land and other portions of this battleground, fought over by brave men of a nation divided, is now part of Gettysburg National Military Park, through the agency of the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association and the collective generosity of patriotic ...