“We had a hardscrabble up…”

Union forces now occupied Fort Johnson and were moving to capture Staunton. “Stonewall” Jackson, moving with speed and secrecy, had arrived at the foot of Shenandoah Mountain and moved west to defeat Union Generals John C. Fremont and R.H. Milroy ...

North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company

This was a major hydraulic operation in California. Its vast system of canals and flumes using a drainage tunnel 7800 feet long was termed a feat of engineering skill. It was the principal defendant in an anti-debris lawsuit settled by ...

Power's Ferry

Established 1835 by James Power, (1790-1870).

Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard’s 4th A. C. (Army of the Cumberland) [US], moved from Vining’s station to this vicinity July 9, 10, 1864. Newton’s (2d) div. was diverted to Roswell to support Garrard’s cav. ...

Green Camp

1838....................1941

The village of Berwick was

founded in June 1838 by

David Beach

Incorporated 1875 as

Green Camp in honor of

General Green

Who with his army

camped in this vicinity

during the War of 1812.

Pop...................372

Marker is at the intersection of Marion-Green Camp Road (Ohio Route 739) and Mill ...

Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge / Fannie Askew Williams Park

Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge

According to the May 2, 1883 minutes of the Early County Board of Commissioners, a commission was appointed "to inquire into the practicability of construction a bridge across Coheelee Creek at McDonald Ford." However, the construction contract ...

Spinas "Rental House"

1913

This one-story, detached dwelling began as an American Victorian-style building, with walls of locally made brick and a metal-covered, timber-framed hip roof. Brick arches topped door and window openings. Bungalow-style additions included an open, full-width porch supported by square columns. ...

82nd Fighter Group

Dedicated to the members

of the 82nd Fighter Group

95th, 96th, & 97th Squadrons

World War II

554 Aerial Victories

Three Distinguished Unit Citations

Foggia, Italy, 26 Aug 43

Cancello, Italy, 2 Sept 43

Ploesti, Rumania, 10 June 44

Courtesy hmdb.org

97th Bombardment Group

Hdqts., 340th, 341st, 342nd, 414th [Bomb Squadrons]

Dedicated to

the Americans who served

their country

as members of

The

97th Bombardment Group

1942 - 1945

483 missions flown

Materials for this memorial were obtained

from the theatres where the 97th Bombardment

Group operated in World War II

The Linden tree from England

The ...

The River Patrol & Cochran’s Ford

Pending Federal crossings of the Chattahoochee, Gen. E. M. McCook's cav. div. [US] screened 4th and 23d Corps movements to fords and ferries in this vicinity, July 6, 15, 1864.

July 7, Brownlow's 1st Tennessee reg't., Dorr’s brigade (McCook's cav.) ...

Vancouver Barracks Parade Ground

On May 13, 1849, from the deck of the USS Massachusetts, the first U.S. Army troops in the Pacific Northwest spotted the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Fort Vancouver. “Mr. Douglas, the resident Governor received us very politely and Major Hatheway [U.S. ...