Tobacco Was Money

and this was where you made it or spent it!

In Colonial Virginia, tobacco was money - a product in high demand in England. Acts were passed providing for the inspection of tobacco to ensure quality and to make sure that ...

Old Fort Bridger

Pioneer Trading Post

The fort was established about 1842 by Jim Bridger discoverer of Great Salt Lake; notable pioneer, trapper, fur trader, scout and guide. Bridger was born at Richmond, Virginia, March 17, 1804 and died at Westport, Missouri, July 17, ...

Third Brigade

Third Division - Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps Third Division

Third Brigade

Brig. Gen. Frank Wheaton

Col. David J. Nevin

62d. New York 93d. 98th. 102d. 139th. Penna. Infantry

July 2 Arrived about 2 p.m. and late in the day moved to the north ...

The First Presbyterian Church of Florence

1931

This second-oldest Presbyterian Church in continuous usage in Arizona was founded in 1888. The present building was designed by architects Wallingford and Bell of Phoenix in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, with mission-type tile on the roof. George Smith and ...

Brawley Boarding House

H.T. Brawley, teacher and principal of R.V.H.S. began construction on this house in approximately 1925. The unfinished shell sold to the M.J. Wiltbank Family in 1935. M.J. & son Clive completed the home. Through the years teachers, newlyweds & others ...

Old Spring Valley Burial Ground

The historic cemetery directly in the rear of the Behnke farm contains the graves of descendants of early settlers in this area including a least two local farmer-militiamen of the American Revolution, Jacobus Brouwer and Henry Banta, as well as ...

Walney Outbuildings

Icehouse

Emmeline Machen (at Walney) to Arthur Machen, December 1853

“As to the Ice-house I remind James of it daily and indeed almost every time I see him. … Campbell promised to come today to commence digging it, but has failed to ...

Captain Daniel Bray

To commemorate the valour of

Captain Daniel Bray.

Who with a few patriotic citizens braved the enemy and collected enough boats from along the river to make possible the memorable crossing of the ice-laden Delaware of General Washington and his troops on ...

Locktown Baptist Church

Congregation organized in 1742 in Baptistown. A log cabin & a later frame church preceded this 1819 building.

Marker is at the intersection of Locktown Sergeantsville Road and Locktown School Road, on the right when traveling south on Locktown Sergeantsville Road. ...

Mary Surratt's Boarding House

Civil War to Civil Rights

"The nest in which the egg was hatched."President Andrew Johnson, April 1865.

The building at 604 H Street, today Golo’s Chinese Restaurant, is intimately connected with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater, just five ...