The Atomic Cannon

Model. M65 280 m.m.

Weight. 42,500 lbs.

Length. 42 feet

(1) One of only (3) three in existence, the other two are located at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma and the U.S. Army Ordinance Center in Aberdeen, Maryland. It was placed in service November 17, ...

The Middlebury Fire House

On this site in 1949 the volunteers of the Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department, using donated and salvaged materials, built a fire station on land donated by the Vaszauskas family.

Pictured are the original 1941 Ford LaFrance, 1947 International tanker and ...

The William Vanderhorst House

54 Tradd Street (Postmaster Bacot House)

Constructed circa 1740 by William Vanderhorst, this three story stuccoed masonry structure is considered one of the earliest examples of Charleston single house. A notable aspect of the building is the absence of a piazza, ...

Native Americans on the Georgia Coast

Long before Europeans arrived in the New World,

the Savannah area was occupied by Native Americans.

The earliest Paleoindian groups migrated into coastal

Georgia as early as 10,000 B.C. The hunter-gathers

took advantage of rich estuarine resources as well as

upland plants and animals. ...

The Colonel Alexander Hext Tenements

51-53 Tradd Street

This Georgian double-tenement is located on part of lot number 60 of the Grand Modell, a city plan developed between 1670-1680. Lot number 60 was granted originally to Robert Tradd, after whose family Tradd Street is named. ...

Montgolfier Brothers

1783

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joseph and Etíenne de Montgolfier, brothers living in France in the ...

In Their Springfield Prime

1854 marked Lincoln's public return to politics following a five-year hiatus. That year Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois pushed the "Kansas-Nebraska Act" through the U.S. Congress, overturning the 1820 Missouri Compromise line. Fearing the spread of slavery to western ...

The Yamasee War At Goose Creek, 1715

Marker Front:

In April 1715 Yamasee warriors killed government agents and traders who had come to meet with them at Pocotaligo, in present-day Beaufort County. Others killed colonists and raided plantations and farms at Port Royal, initiating the Yamasee War. Catawbas ...

Army of the Potomac

June 29 1863

Headquarters Army of the Potomac moved from Frederick to Middleburg. First and Eleventh Corps marched from Frederick to Emmitsburg. Second Corps from Monocacy Junction via Liberty and Johnsville to Uniontown. Third Corps from near Woodsborough to Taneytown. Fifth ...

The American House

Social galas and political functions were common at the American House. Stephen A.Douglas sometimes used the hotel as headquarters for the Democrats. (Below Left) A newspaper published Springfield's newest hotel under the direction of J. Clifton, a former Bostonian. (Below ...