General LaFayette

(General LaFayette) was the official guest of the State of Indiana at Jeffersonville on May 12, 1825 at the house of Former Governor Posey on the West corner of Front and Fort Streets. He was welcomed by the Governor of ...

City of Meriden's World War I Roll of Honor

[ west side left panel ]

Abel, Arnold T. • Abrams, Charles E. • Adams, Armand E. • Adams, Harry P. • Adams, Joseph • Adaszkiewicz, Ignatius • Affeldt, Albert A. • Affeldt, John E. • Affeldt, Joseph M. • Aichler, ...

Century, Florida / Alger Railroad

Century, Florida

Founded in 1900 to house mill employees of the Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company, formed in 1900 by General Russell A. Alger - Governor of Michigan, U.S. Senator, and President McKinley's Secretary of War - and by Martin H. Sullivan of ...

D’Annae: A French, Swedish-Style 4-pounder

The Battle of Monmouth – 28 June 1778

In 1777, the Continental Army was in desperate need of more field artillery. When 31 Swedish-style 4-pounders arrived in New Hampshire in April, Commander-in-Chief George Washington directed that “they will be forwarded to ...

The Sacramento, Placer and Nevada Railroad Right of Way

Here you can see the right of way of the Sacramento, Placer and Nevada Railroad. It was designed by Theodore Dehone Judah (March 4, 1826 – November 2, 1863) as Chief Engineer. Conceived in 1854 and constructed in 1861, it ...

7th West Virginia Infantry

1st Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):Sons of the Mountains

7th W Va Veteran

Romney to Appomattox

1st Brigade Carroll

3rd Division 2nd Corps.

At dusk July 2nd Carroll's

Brigade was ordered by

General Hancock to this point.

On arriving there we found the

Battery about to be taken charge

of by the ...

Yellow Frame Presbyterian Church

In 1887, bordering "The Great Road" (Rt. 94) where Warren and Sussex Counties meet at an elevation 880 feet, a church and manse were erected as the third location of this Presbyterian congregation, built in the Victorian Queen Anne style ...

Franklin Street Burying Grounds

Reconsecration

of the

Franklin Street

Burying Grounds

The first Jewish

Cemetery in Virginia

Founded 1791

Commemorating

the 300th anniversary

of the first permanent

Jewish settlement

in the United States

This memorial erected by

Congregation Beth Ahabah

Richmond, Virginia

Unveiling April 24, 1955

Rededication services

under auspices

Richmond Tercentenary Committee

of the

Richmond Jewish Community Council

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Col. William Craford

Col. William Craford

founder of

Portsmouth, Virginia

February 27, 1752

Today, known as

Col. William Crawford

Marker is at the intersection of Crawford Parkway and High Street, on the left when traveling north on Crawford Parkway.

Courtesy hmdb.org

73rd Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):73rd Penna Infantry

July 2nd in the morning took position in

the cemetery. At dusk moved hastily to

this position and in a severe contest

assisted in repulsing a desperate

assault on these batteries.

(Left):11th Corps.

Present at Gettysburg

14 officers 318 men

Killed 7 men ...