St. Peter's Church

Here at Mendota (where the rivers meet) missionaries ministered to both Indians and settlers, enduring the hardships of a sprawling wilderness that was the Minnesota country. In 1842, Father Lucien Galtier built a small, log chapel with only two windows, ...

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) ...

U.S. Supreme Court Rules On Overton Park and I-40

1956 - 2006

In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the State of Tennessee could not go through Overton Park to build I-40 based on environmental issues. This east-west interstate now follows I-240 around the north side of Memphis. It ...

Phillips Fire

On July 27, 1894 forest fires racing through dry timber slashings descended on Phillips from three directions. Within a matter of hours the city of 2500 persons lay in smoldering ruins. More than 400 homes, the business district, a new ...

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 ...

Silurian Spring

Silurian Spring is a natural flowing spring situated on an elevation 50’ above the Fox River. David Jackson, the first postmaster of Waukesha (then Prairieville), built his log cabin west of the present day spring and used the water.

David Smeaton ...

143rd Pennsylvania Infantry

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):143rd Penna. Infantry

2nd Brig. 3rd Div. 1st Corps

Held this position July 2nd and 3rd 1863

and assisted in the repulse of the enemy on the 3rd.

Monument erected on 1st days field

near Reynolds Grove where the regiment lost 145 ...

Brush Creek Campground

On September 2, 1811, James Nelson deeded to trustees William Nelson, William Duzan, James King, Jacob Hoss and John R. Boring, 4 acres and 8 poles to be used by the Methodist Episcopal Church for a house of worship. For ...

Vestavia Hills Baptist Church / George Ward 1867-1940

Vestavia Hills Baptist Church

Vestavia Hills Baptist Church, constituted May 6, 1957, first met at Vestavia Hills City Hall. The church purchased the George Ward estate in 1958. On the property was Ward’s home, “Vestavia,” a replica of a Roman temple ...

Pace University

One Pace Plaza

Pace University

Founded in 1906 as a small private accounting school – its first class including just 13 students, meeting in a rented room – Pace has grown into a major university that prepares students for a ...