Sugar House - Prison Window

This window was originally part of the five story Sugar House built in 1763 at the corner of Duane and Rose Streets and used by the British during the Revolutionary War as a prison for American Patriots.

The Sugar House ...

Fresno Traction Company

1903 - 1939

During the year 1903, streetcars began to rattle along the city streets from the San Joaquin River through the fig garden area to downtown Fresno and east along Huntington Boulevard to Sunnyside.

Providing a reliable, entertaining, even elegant method ...

Army of the Potomac

July 2, 1863

Second, Fifth and Sixth Corps, Lockwood's Brigade from the Middle Department, First and Third Brigades Second Cavalry Division, Third Cavalry Division and the Artillery Reserve reached the field of Gettysburg. First and Second Brigades First Cavalry Division ...

Pamunkey Indians Attacked by Nathaniel Bacon

Although the Pamunkey Indians had been allies of the Virginia colonists since 1646, early in 1676 they were driven from their main town on the Pamunkey River by sympathizers of insurrectionist Nathaniel Bacon, and took refuge in Dragon Run Swamp. ...

Mills Square Flag Pole

Raised September 9, 1905

Made from one log, originally 126 feet in length. 18 inch diameter at base, 5,300 pounds

Shortened 14 feet in 1959

City of Livermore

Historic Preservation Landmark Site

Dedicated July 1998

Marker can be reached from South J Street near 3rd ...

Battle of Baxter Springs

October 6, 1863

Major General J.G. Blunt left Ft. Scott on October 4, 1863 en route to Ft. Smith. With him was his military escort consisting of about 125 men from Company I, Third Wisconsin Cavalry, and Company A, Fourteenth Kansas ...

Palisado Fort or Stockade

Most of the early frontier forts were of the palisado type. Before you is a small sample of this type construction. A palisade is a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense. ...

a pathway to safety

Members of the beaten Union 11th Corps fled pursuing Confederates along this portion of Stratton Street in the late afternoon of July 1, 1863, seeking the protection of friendly lines on Cemetery Hill, a quarter mile beyond the crest in ...

St. Cornelius Chapel

Governors Island

During the first seven decades of American military use of Governors Island, there was no post chapel. In 1844, a Columbia College Episcopal Reverend, John M. McVickar, was commissioned post chaplain. His tireless efforts, combined with the sponsorship ...

Oroville Masonic Temple

SESQUICENTENNIAL TESTAMENT

On the 8th day of May

In the year 2006

AL 6006

Oroville Lodge No. 103 F.&A.M.

In the State of California

Did celebrate 150 years

In Oroville, California

Dispensation: April 4, 1856

Chartered: May 8, 1856

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