Sacred Heart Catholic Church Bell

Cornlea, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Cast by Stuckstede & Bro.

St. Louis, Mo

1908

A.D. MCMY-111 - Pius - Pro

[Probably MCMVIII for 1908]

Ecclesia S.S. Cordis

Cornlea, Nebr.

Weight: 1,000 lbs.

The dedication of the Sacred Heart Church, Cornlea, Nebraska was November 4, 1908. The church bell was ...

St. Michael's Catholic Church Bell

Tarnov, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

The Hy. Stuckstede B. F. Co.

St. Louis, Mo 1893

Darowall Kosciolowi

S W Michala Tarnowie Nebr

Joseph Paprocki J. Sofia

Zona Jeco

Weight: 295 lbs.

In the early 1870's with much unrest in Poland, Francis Paprocki, a blacksmith, left his homeland in ...

Congregational Church Bell

Linwood, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Mc Shane Bell Foundry

Henry McShane & Co.

Baltimore, Md

Weight: 795 lbs.

The records for the bell and the church were destroyed in a flood. The bronze bell carried no date. The church closed in the early 1970's.

Marker is ...

St. Bernard Catholic Church Bell

St. Bernard Township, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Meneely & Kimberly,

Founders,

Troy, N.Y.

1878

Weight: 710 lbs.

About 1873-1874 a few Catholic families began to settle in the vicinity of the present St. Bernard. Thus, we find John Dieter, John Melcher, Mathias Classen, Joseph Steibly, and ...

Sugar Point Battle

When a federal marshal with about 100 troops of the 3rd Infantry tried to arrest the Chippewa Chief Bugonaygeshig at Sugar Point opposite here on the northeast shore of the lake, a sharp fight occurred October 5, 1898. The whites ...

Confederate Memorial 1861-1865

Jacksonville, Florida

(East face)

To the Soldiers of Florida

This shaft is by a comrade raised in testimony of his love, recalling deeds immortal, heroism unsurpassed.

With ranks unbroken, ragged, starved and decimated the southern soldier, for duty's sake, undaunted ...

Civilian Conservation Corps, Leeds, Utah

The Leeds CCC camp opened in October 1933 under the direction of the Dixie National Forest Service on the site of an existing ranger station. Leeds, a town of less than 200, more than doubled with the opening of the ...

War At The Front Door

Littlepage Mansion

In July 1861, this area swarmed with retreating Confederate troops and pursuing Federal forces. Union Gen. George B. McClellan had ordered Gen. Jacob Cox to march his 3,000 raw Ohio recruits into western Virginia from Gallipolis, Ohio, to ...

Battle of Bulltown

"Come and take us"

On the hill in front of you are two fortifications that Union Gen. George B. McClellan ordered constructed late in1861. They guarded the wooden covered bridge located here on the Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike. In October ...

Destruction at the Courthouse

The Raiders Strike

(Preface): Confederate Gen. Albert G. Jenkins led 550 cavalrymen on a 500-mile raid from Salt Sulphur Springs, Aug. 22-Sept. 12, 1862, attacking Federal forces and destroying military stores. He captured and paroled 300 Union soldiers, killed or wounded ...