Aransas Pass

C.S.A.

Aransas Pass, The natural inlet (3 miles) to Aransas Bay, separates San Jose and Mustang Islands. These islands are part of a chain of barrier islands which extend along the entire length of Texas' coastal mainland.

At the beginning of the ...

Capital Guardian

Fort Washington

Building the Second Fort

On September 8, 1814, only 12 days after the destruction of Fort Warburton, Pierre L'Enfant was commissioned by the Government to reestablish a fortification here. Work began that October but increasing friction between L'Enfant and the ...

"A Most Deplorable Condition"

“I have now over 200 in camp, and they are in a most deplorable condition….I have a mother with her dying babe in my office. The rest are in camp, in a condition next to death. Most of them have ...

President’s Mansion

White House of the Confederacy

This house was the executive mansion of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his family from August 1861 until April 2, 1865. A West Point graduate, former U.S. senator from Mississippi, and former U.S. secretary of war, ...

Houston Baptist

Houston Baptist Church and its adjoining cemetery were

organized in 1886 under the leadership of Reverend Ulysses L. Houston, minister of First Bryan Baptist Church in Savannah. A significant religious and political leader in the African-American community, Houston attended the meeting ...

The Red River Plunge of Bonnie and Clyde

On June 10, 1933, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pritchard and family saw from their home on the bluff (west) the plunge of an auto into Red River. Rescuing the victims, unrecognized as Bonnie Parker and Clyde and Buck Barrow, they ...

2nd Bomb Group (H)

7 Dec. 1941 - 28 Feb. 1946

20th Bomb Sq (H) • 49th Bomb Sq (H)

96th Bomb Sq (H) • 429th Bomb Sq (H)

The 2d Bombardment Group relocated

to Ephrata, Washington, then to Great

Falls, Montana in 1942. Received newer

B-17 aircraft and deployed ...

Springer

Population 1,696 - Elevation 5,857

Located in the old Maxwell Land Grant and near the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail, Springer served as Colfax County seat from 1882 to 1897. Several men were killed here in one of the ...

Cloud's Creek Baptist Church

In 1785, following the Revolutionary War, pioneers from North Carolina--including the Hendons, Hartsfields, Standifers, Johnsons, Lawrences, and Olives--settled near Big Cloud's Creek on the Georgia frontier near the Creek and Cherokee nations. Olive's Fort was soon constructed and Cloud's Creek ...

William MacFarland Patton

(1845-1905)

Chair, Civil Engineering 1896-1905

Dean, Department of Engineering 1904-1905

A distinguished engineer, educator, and author, William MacFarland Patton chaired Civil Engineering at VPI and became the first dean of the Department of Engineering. He worked as the engineer on numerous projects in ...