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Howard's March to Buckhead

July 18, 1864. Howard’s 4th A.C. left Crossroads Ch 4:30 A.M., Newton’s div leading, followed by Stanley’s & Wood’s. Just below Mt. Paran Rd. Newton’s column was assailed by Williams’ Kentucky Brigade of Wheeler’s cav., which opposed the Federals all ...

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Federal Reserve Bank of New York

33 Liberty Street, York & Sawyer, Architects, 1919-24

Deep inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York lies more than one quarter of the world’s known reserves of gold bullion. These tens of billions of dollars’ worth of gold bars, ...

Bishopville High School

(Front text)

This high school, built in 1936, is an excellent example of a Colonial Revival school built by the Public Works Administration (PWA), a New Deal program of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration. Designed by architect Henry Dudley Harrall (1878-1959) ...

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Wainwright Trust Building

Built c. 1880, the Wainwright Trust Company was located here until the 1930s. The county's first abstract company, Wainwright and Hall, was forerunner to the Trust Company formed in 1901

Marker is on Conner Street (Indiana Route 32/38), on the left ...

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R. R. Stephenson Block

A single-step parapet sports the name R. R. Stephenson, the judge and politician who built this block in 1888. Two storefronts housed the gas company and a brother's plumbing business. Since 1933 it has been home to taverns.

Marker is on ...

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Burial Site

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“ . . . this Day there was two men Buried from our Regt.”

- Lt. Jonathan Burton, October 4, 1776

This small stone, engraved “N. Richardson of Staddard Eng died 1760,” may mark the only identified ...

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Equitable Building

120 Broadway,

Graham, Anderson, Probst and White Architects, 1912-15

Vast, looming and dark by comparison to all previous skyscrapers, on completion the Equitable Building could claim the title of, if not the tallest, then certainly the largest office building in ...

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Birmingham - Southern College

Created in 1918 on this site

by merger of two colleges:

Southern University

a Methodist college

founded in 1856 at Greensboro.

Birmingham College

founded by Methodist as

N. Alabama Conference College

on this site in 1898.

Marker is on Arkadelphia Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

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In Remembrance of Our Warriors / Navajo Warrior Memorial

In Remembrance of Our Warriors

Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice and/or

Missing in Action,

They will never be forgotten

and to us they will always be young in our thoughts.

Nelson Lewis • Walter Nelson • Willie A. Notah • Edie Charlie Begaye • Lee ...

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The Cheyenne Outbreak

On September 9, 1878, after a year of suffering on an Oklahoma reservation, some 300 Northern Cheyenne Indians began a trek back to their homeland. Dull Knife's band of 149 Indians were captured and taken to Fort Robinson. For months ...

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