Flag of Honor

The Flag of Honor contains the names of all those who perished in the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, and aboard United Flights 175 and 93 and American flights 11 and 77 on September 11, 2001 and in the ...

Birthplace of the Texas Oil Industry

First important oil field in Texas

opened here Oct. 15, 1895.

First successful refinery in Texas

Completed Christmas Day , 1898

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Plaque presented to

The Citizens of Corsicana

by the

Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association

Marker can be reached from S 12th ...

Former Packing House

In its heyday, Quincy was home to a number of prominent Jewish tobacco growers. Large leaf shade tobacco was a profitable crop in Gadsden County in the 19th and 20th centuries. At that time, shade tobacco leaves were used as ...

Santa Fe Locomotive Engine No. 2542

(Front)

Engine 2542 was built in 1910 by the American Locomotive Company in Pittsburgh, PA., for the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway. In 1929, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway purchased the KCM & O Line and assigned this ...

County of Allegheny Law Enforcement Officers Memorial

Dedicated

August25, 1996

Rededication

Saturday May 17, 2003

County of Allegheny

Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, Inc.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of North Shore Drive and Art Rooney Drive.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution

In 1889, during the Centennial of the inauguration of George Washington as first President of the United States, a group of Revolutionary War soldiers' descendants gathered in New York to form a society to promote awareness of the Revolutionary War ...

SurfSide Park

City of Mound

Mound's "Surfside Park & Beach" was platted in 1881 and consists of two parcels. Little is known of its history until 1935, when the northerly parcel was purchased for $350. The southerly parcel consists of five lots. Four ...

Fire of 1901

The entire east side of the 100 block of North Main burned to the ground November 15, 1901. Some of the citizens (obviously not the ones whose businesses were destroyed) thought this was a blessing in disguise. The block consisted ...

Newkirk Kay County Fair

The Newkirk Kay County Fair was organized in 1896. Five dollar shares were sold in order to purchase property for the facilities, build a race track, grand stands and sheds. The share also gave free admittance to all shows and ...

James Thomas Fitz-Gerald, Jr.

Captain, USAF

(side 1)

Born July 13, 1920 in South Pittsburg, James “Jim” Thomas Fitz-Gerald, Jr. was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1940. Interested in aviation since childhood, he graduated in the first class of ...