Trumbull Volunteer Fire Company #1

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Dedicated To The

Trumbull Volunteer

Fire Company #1, Inc

Past, Present, Future

Established 1925

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Trumbull Center

Fire District

Established 1950

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Trumbull Volunteer

Fire Company #1, Inc

Past Chiefs

Charles Shepherd

Charles Kurtz

Carl Peterson

Henry Machalowski

Henry ...

Construction of the Skyline Drive

Near this spot, on July 18, 1931, the ground-breaking ceremony for the Skyline Drive was conducted. This act began the eight-year construction of the 105-mile-long scenic roadway, which now stretches from Front Royal to Waynesboro, Virginia.

Marker is on Skyline Drive ...

Tomlinson Fort House

At this site lived Tomlinson Fort (1787-1859). A leader of the Union Party, he studied medicine and wrote a widely used book on medical practice. A captain in the War of 1812, he served in the Georgia legislature and the ...

Assay Office

Kern County experienced a mining boom just like other parts of California. Prospectors arriving from near and far found gold, silver and other valuable ore in Kern County’s mountains beginning in the 1850s.

An assayer tests the purity of gold and ...

Charles Lafayette Knight

"Charley"

"Knight's Point" is dedicated in memory of Charley Knight, a native Tampan, well-known property appraiser and prominent collector of Native-American artifacts. Knight always had a keen interest in and fond feelings for the 177-acre tract of land now known as ...

Galveston in the Republic of Texas

Galveston Island, for centuries a crossroads for Indians, privateers, Spanish and French explorers, for a time was capital of the Republic of Texas. This was during the Texas War for Independence, when Santa Anna was making his 1836 invasion. On ...

Confederate Mariner: Leon Smith

"Lion" of Texas coastal defense during the Civil War. Commanded marine department of military district.

Born in New England, went to sea at 13. By age 20 was a captain. In 1850's commanded on the Galveston to New Orleans run ...

Poplar Bluff

(Front):

In the Ozark perimeter, above Missouri's Southeast Lowland Region, Poplar Bluff was laid out in 1849 as seat of newly organized Butler County. The town was named for its location in a forest of yellow poplars on the bluffs above ...

First Presbyterian Church

(Obverse)

This church, founded June 21, 1840, by missionaries to the Cherokee Indians from the brainerd Mission and others, is Chattanooga's oldest with record of its founding date. During the Civil War, its building at 7th and Market streets was ...

79th Fighter Group

P-40 and P47

Dedicated to those who served

and those who waited

October 1, 1988

85th Skullmen

86th Comanches

87th Skeeters

Campaigns

1942 - 1945

Egypt - Libya

Tunisia (Air)

Sicily (Air)

Naples - Foggia (Air)

Anzio

Rome-Arno

Southern France

Northern Apennines

Po Valley

Awarded two Presidential Citations

March-August 1943 & 16-20 April 1945

[across base of pyramid]

Bedford • Alexandria ...