Bearpaw Shale and the Inland Ocean

The black shale rocks seen in this area represent the muddy sediments deposited by the last ocean to exist in Montana. The shale, known by geologists as the Bearpaw Shale contains fossils of sea-going creatures that lived and died some ...

Buffalo Soldier Field

This athletic field is named in honor of the men of the Ninth and Tenth U.S. Cavalry Regiments, detachments of which once served at West Point. These Regiments of Horse Cavalry were first created by the Army Reorganization Act ...

Birds by the Bay

Herons, ducks, and geese gather along the shores and on the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.

A Great Blue Heron has caught a fish to eat.

Who is this?

Domesticated geese are not native to this area. They are from Europe and Asia. ...

St. Benedict the Moor School

Located on this site was the former St. Benedict the Moor School, a Catholic school for black children that was one of the most important buildings associated with black history in Tampa. The property was purchased for $600 on March ...

Luxury on the Bay

Listen, and you can almost hear the jazz music and smell the roasting duck.

Edward F. Piersol conceived the idea for the Bayou Hotel and was the first owner. The hotel, considered lavish for a small town was built with field ...

The Alabama Tennessee River Railroad

The Alabama Tennessee River Railroad was chartered by the Alabama legislature in the session of 1836-1837. Work was begun at Selma in 1851 and the rails reached Blue Mountain in 1861. Work was terminated during the War Between the States.

In ...

Good Hope Baptist Church

[Marker Front]:

This church, founded about 1870, has its origins in Walnut Grove Baptist Church, founded in 1820. Walnut Grove included both white and black members before the Civil War, but after the war black members asked for letters of dismissal ...

First Presbyterian Church

The First Presbyterian Church of Piedmont was organized March 18, 1890, with seventeen charter members, by Rev. B. F. Bedinger, Presbyterian evangelist. Rev. J. E. McLean was the first minister. First elders were C. W. McMahon and Stephen Ferguson; first ...

Ebenezer Hearn 1794-1862

Methodist Missionary

First minister assigned to Alabama Territory by Tennessee Conference. Preached first sermon two blocks west at Bear Meat Cabin (present Blountsville) April 18, 1818. He later organized churches in Shelby, St. Clair, Jefferson, Tuscaloosa and Cotaco (present Morgan) Counties; ...

Bell Predates the Civil War

In loving memory

David J. Dukes, M.D.

July 16, 1927 — June 15, 1991

Remembered for his love of music, church, sailing, family, and his fellow man.

The bell predates the Civil War and may have been in the First Methodist Church around the ...