First Coca-Cola Bottling Company In The United States

On July 21, 1899, two Chattanooga lawyers, Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead, signed a contract with the Coca-Cola Company granting them the exclusive rights to bottle Coca-Cola in most of the United States. Another Chattanooga citizen, John Thomas ...

Company F, 1st United States Sharpshooters

Company F.

First Regiment

United States Sharpshooters

First Sergt. Henry E. Kinsman

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Enlisted 177

Killed and died of wounds 32

Died of disease 12

Wounded 45

Vermont

Marker is on Boonsboro Pike (State Highway 34), on the right when traveling east.

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Twelfth United States Infantry

First Battalion,

Twelfth United States Infantry.

Captain M.M. Blunt, Commanding.

At sunset, September 16, 1862, the First Battalion, Twelfth Infantry, relieved the Fourth Infantry, guarding the middle bridge over the Antietam and remained on that duty until after noon of the 17th, when ...

Fourth United States Infantry

Fourth United States Infantry.

The Fourth United States Infantry, Captain Hiram Dryer commanding, crossing the Antietam between 2 and 3 p.m. of September 17, 1862, advanced to with in a few feet of this point; three companies under command of Lieut. ...

Major Charles W. Davis, Infantry United States Army / "Above and

Major Charles W. Davis

A native of Montgomery, graduated of Lanier, alumnus of the Universities of Alabama and Maryland. Major Davis was awarded the Medal of Honor as Executive Officer, 2d Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. "For distinguishing himself ...

The Flag of the United States of America

In the summer of 1847, this site, known than as the "Old Fort," was the first permanent Anglo-Saxon settlement in the west. It was here that the American Flag was first raised. This Sesquicentennial Flag Pole is raised as a ...

United States Senator Morgan C. Hamilton

An outstanding patriot who acted as Secretary of War and Marine in Republic of Texas and later served the state in many roles, Morgan Hamilton in 1837 obtained a 1009-acre land grant in this area. While his brother A.J. Hamilton ...

United States Synthetic Rubber Program 1939-1945

National Historic Chemical Landmark

Top plaque:

When the natural rubber supply from Southeast Asia was cut off at the beginning of World War II, the United States and its allies faced the loss of a strategic material. With U.S. government sponsorship, a ...

First Mayor of Los Angeles Under United States Rule

Los Pobladores

The Founders of the City of Los Angeles: Vanegas, Quintero, Rodriguez, Villavicencio, Navarro, Rosas, Camero, Rosas, Moreno, Mesa,

Before 1850, the chief executive of the pueblo was the alcalde, who sat on the ayuntamiento (council) and served as ...

The United States Court of Claims

The United States Court of Claims held its first meeting in "Willard's Hotel" on this site on May 11, 1855. The court was established to allow citizens to sue the U.S. Government. In 1861, President Lincoln wrote of the court: