Milton Public Library

The Milton Library Association was organized in

January 1875, and incorporated in March 1883. The

first library consisted of one bookcase in Welch’s

Store. Books were donated by members who paid

an annual fee for user privileges. In later years

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Irvin S. Cobb Said: / Alben W. Barkley Said:

Irvin S. Cobb Said:

"Here in Paducah one encounters, I claim, an agreeable blend of Western kindliness, and Northern enterprises, superimposed upon a Southern background. Here, I claim, more chickens are fried, more hot biscuits are eaten, more corn pone is ...

Boothill Graveyard

1878-1884

This Tombstone Cemetery gives mute testimony to the hardships of Western frontier life. The people buried here were housewives, painted ladies, outlaws, gamblers, miners, business men and women, blacksmiths, cowboys and those "who died with their boots on". Among its ...

Reed Bingham State Park Bridge

This bridge, which connects the Cook County side of Reed Bingham State Park with the Colquitt County side, was completed in 1974 and was dedicated on July 13, 1974 by Governor Jimmy Carter.

Serving as an outstanding state park facility for ...

Young Corbett III

Ralph Giordano

Born Ralph Capabianca Giordano on May 27, 1905, in Rionero In Vulture, Italy.

Young Corbett III embarked on his successful boxing career in Fresno, California in 1919, winning the Welterweight Championship of the world on February 22, 1933.

Marker is ...

Billy Vukovich Memorial

This Monument is dedicated May 30, 1956, by the citizens of Fresno to the memory of Fresno's own Billy Vukovich, who met his death while leading the Indianapolis 500 Mile race May 30, 1955.

Billy Vukovich, who lived all his ...

Studebaker

On this site in 1835 John Studebaker erected his home and shop with this legend over the door:

"Owe no man anything but love one another"

Here were born three of his sons who later founded the Studebaker institution in South Bend, ...

Third Brigade

Second Division - Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps Second Division

Third Brigade

Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Neill

7th Maine (6 cos.) 43d. 49th. 77th. New York

61st. Pennsylvania Infantry

July 2 Arrived after a march of 33 miles from Manchester Md. and about 6 ...

Highlanders Decline Combat

The Battle of Monmouth

“What a pity it is to throw away such men as these” Captain – Lieutenant John Peebles, Royal Highland Regiment

Here, in what was Derick Sutfin’s cider orchard, 300 Royal Highlanders found themselves in an awkward position. ...

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Landmarks of New York

Inspired by Florentine renaissance palaces and completed in 1924, this structure of Indiana limestone and Ohio sandstone with ironwork by Samuel Yellin was designed by York and Sawyer and built by Marc Eidlitz & Son, Inc. ...