Northwestern Military and Naval Academy

Educational reformer Harlan Page Davidson founded Northwestern Military Academy in Highland Park, Illinois in 1888. For years many of the cadets came from northern Illinois, but enrollment broadened when the academy moved to the shores of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, in ...

Johnny Western

Utah's Little Hollywood

Singer and actor Johnny Western has appeared in thirty-seven features, including "Boots and Saddles", "The Dalton Girls", "Fort Bowie", and "Have Gun-Will Travel" (for which he wrote the theme song) all filmed in Kanab. Johnny was recently inducted ...

Georgia Southwestern State University

Georgia Southwestern State University was founded in 1906 as the Third Agricultural and Mechanical School. In 1926, the Legislature authorized the school to offer two years of college work and change the name to Third District Agricultural and Normal College. ...

Western Star Lodge No. 2

Oldest Chartered Masonic Lodge in California

Free and Accepted Masons

Originally chartered by the most worshipful Grand Lodge of Missouri, A F and A M

May 10th AL5848 (1848)

Dedicated in due and ancient form this 10th day of May ...

The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company

1851 - 1951

Commemorating the

100th Anniversary

of

The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western

Railroad Company

Here in Scranton, Pennsylvania was conceived and brought to successful completion the first segment of what is now the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, on ...

Western & Atlantic Railroad Tunnel

The 1447 foot long Chetoogeta Mountain railroad tunnel is one-half mile east of this marker. The tunnel was completed in 1850 and this opened the W&A RR from Atlanta to Chattanooga. This was the first railroad tunnel completed south of ...

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Shops

In 1907 William Truesdale, president of the DL&W, hired architect Frank J. Niles of New Jersey to replace the original locomotive shops. Niles designed four new structures: A five story pattern shop, a foundry, a blacksmith shop, and a locomotive ...

Western Star Lodge No. 2 Free and Accepted Masons

This monument was erected on the 75th anniversary of the date of its charter May 10-th 1923 by

Western Star Lodge

No. 2 F.& A.M.

of Shasta, Calif.

The oldest Masonic Chapter in Calif.

Granted May 10-th

1848.

By the Grand Lodge of

Missouri.

To

Sashel Woods. W.M.

Peter Lassen. ...

Western North Carolina Veterans Memorial

[inscriptions, west center interior]

"It is the Veteran:"

It is the Veteran who has given us and defended Freedom of Religion.

It is the Veteran who has given us and defended Freedom of Press.

It is the Veteran who has given us and defended ...

Kentucky and the Western War

Western Theater, 1861-1862

Other than by navigating the Mississippi River, the only way for armies west of the Appalachians to move from north to south was through Kentucky. Kentucky's rivers and railroads tempted commanders from both sides in spite of ...