Site of the Vine Street Brown Derby

1628 Vine Street

The most famous Hollywood restaurant of its day, the Brown Derby opened Valentine's Day, 1929. Owner Robert Cobb was also the inventor of the Cobb Salad. He originated furnishing telephones at tables during mealtime. celebrities popularity was ...

Col. Frederick Hambright

This Tablet

Marks the spot where

Col. Frederick Hambright

was wounded

Marker can be reached from Kings Mountain Park Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Webb City Veterans Memorial

Pause and Pray

Dedicated

to those of this

Central District who

served in the Armed

Forces that we may

keep forever bright

the memory of their

glorious part in the

struggle "to defend

life, liberty and the

pursuit of happiness"

Permanent service records

of each veteran on file

in the Webb City

Public Library

"Soldier, rest,

Thy ...

First Brigade

Second Division - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps Second Division

First Brigade

Col. John B. McIntosh

1st Md. (11 Cos.) Purnell Legion, 1st Mass. Co. A.

1st New Jersey, 1st, 3rd Penna. Cavalry

Section Battery H, 3rd. Penna. H. Artillery

July 2 After an exhausting ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar

1872 - 1906

Paul Laurence Dunbar, born on Howard Street in Dayton, was the first African American to be accepted into the discipline of American literature. The son of a fugitive slave, Paul was an eloquent poet, short story writer, and ...

Campbell's Covered Bridge

In the earliest of times the rock shoal upstream of the bridge was used as a ford until a flat bridge was built across Beaverdam Creek. In Monday, August 24, 1908 starting at 7:00 p.m., twenty inches of rain fell ...

The Birth of Aviation

In 1899, Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton built a kite to test a revolutionary flight control system, and in 1900, built their first airplane (glider). With promising results, the Wrights built man-carrying gliders and airplanes to refine their ideas. ...

Mesa Woman's Club House

On March 9, 1917, fifty-three women, inspired by Margaret Wheeler Ross, past president, 1914-1916, of the General Federation of Women's Clubs of Arizona, chartered the "Woman's Club of Mesa". Since 1901, Federated Women's Clubs, an international organization, has supported cultural ...

Hokenson Brothers Fishery

Harvesting the Waters

In 1927, the Hokenson brothers (Leo, Roy, and Eskel) began life as fishermen. For more than 30 years, they met the challenges of fishing the largest lake in the world, relying on their skills, strength, and ingenuity to ...

Poulain DuBignon and DuBignon Burying Ground

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This burying ground contains the bodies of several members of the du Bignon family, descendants of Le Sieur Christophe Poulain de la Houssaye du Bignon, native of Saint-Malo in Brittany. One of four Frenchmen, former residents of Sapelo Island, who ...