Naval Air Station - Sanford

In November 1942, NAS Sanford was commissioned to meet the need for additional naval aviation training facilities. Originally planned for bomber training, within a year it converted to fighter plane training. A major portion of fighter pilots that served on ...

Duffield Academy

These stones are from the foundation of the academy established Sept. 13, 1806, with Maj. George Duffield, Chairman, Nathaniel Taylor, George Williams, Alexander Doran & John Greer, Trustees. In 1807, Andrew Taylor, Abraham Henry and Reuben Thornton were added. The ...

54th New York Infantry

1st Brigade, 1st Division

(Front):54th Regt. N.Y. Infy.

(Hiram Barney Rifles)

1st. Brig. 1st. Div.

11th. Corps.

(Back):54th Regt. N.Y. Infantry

July 1st

skirmishing on extreme right

near Rock Creek,

July 2nd

at sunset,

severe fighting in this position,

July 3rd

held same position,

Casualties,

killed 7, wounded 47, missing 48,

total loss 102.

Cross Keys, Cedar ...

Fort Pickens (West Virginia) / Engagements of Co. A

Fort Pickens

120 yds., northeast, Co. A 10th W. Va. Inf., built Fort Pickens for headquarters and defense. Company raised by Capt. Morgan A. Darnall; mustered into U. S. service March 13, 1862. In several battles down to Appomattox.

Engagements ...

1890 Seattle Fire Department Bell

This bell is the remaining symbol of the leap made by city leaders to establish and equip a professional firefighting force after the Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889. On that day, the young metropolis of Seattle was devastated ...

Plant Field

(Front text)

The area encompassing The University of Tampa's baseball, track, and soccer facilities was known as Plant Field from early in the 20th century until the mid - 1970s. Plant Field, named for railroad and hotel magnate Henry B. Plant, ...

The San Andreas Fault

One of the most outstanding geological feautures in California, extending for over 650 miles from Point Arena, North of San Francisco, to south of San Corconio Pass. Between twenty and thirty miles deep and more than a mile wide in ...

The Navy Memorial - from Bow to Stern

“...without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.”

George Washington.

The United States Navy Memorial’s roots are as old as the Nation’s Capital itself . Major Peter C. L’Enfant envisioned ...

Union Forge

Taylor Steelworkers Historical Greenway

The Union Forge Heritage Association welcomes you to Union Forge

Union Iron Works was founded by William Allen, a Supreme Court justice in Philadelphia, and Joseph Turner, a sea Captain in 1742, as a business venture. Allen and ...

Building America's First Railroad

"There was a man killed yesterday by a fall from the centre of the 1st arch [of the Thomas Viaduct]... What a sympathy there is between these rough men. It was affecting to see his fellow laborers dressed in their ...