Mt. Zion Baptist Church

(Piscataway Baptist Church)

Founded nearby as Piscataway Baptist Church on 13 Mar. 1774, Mt. Zion Baptist Church was the first Baptist church in the region. Endeavoring to stop the spread of the Baptist movement, local authorities arrested Baptist ministers John Waller, ...

Mattaponi Indian Town

To the north, after the 1644-1646 conflict between colonists and groups still loyal to the Powhatan chiefdom, the Mattaponi Indians found refuge on the headwaters of Piscataway Creek. Officers of then Old Rappahannock County signed a treaty with the Mattaponi ...

Farmer’s Telephone Company

1225 Eddy Street

Built in the early 1900’s and known at

that time as the “Nevada Consolidated

Telephone and Telegraph Company,” only

five telephone lines were originally

installed in Gardnerville. “Long

Distance Connections Available” was

printed in the Gardnerville section of

the ...

Wilderness Campaign

May 6, 1864, Hancock's Federal soldiers opened the second day of battle about 5 a.m. Hill's Confederates were driven westward to this vicinity, the small clearing of the Widow Tapp Farm where Lee had his headquarters. As Col. William T. ...

Spartanburg Town Clock

[Seal of Spartanburg, S.C.]

Mayor Frankin W. Allen 1977-81

Mayor John G. Baeher 1973-1977

Mayor Pro Tem C. Chester Brown, Jr.

Council Members

Jack M. Blasius, Ralph D. Prince

E. Lewis Miller, Hal G. Warlick, Jr.

City Manager

William H. Carstarphen

Architects

Skidemore, Owings & Merrill

Builder

Fiske Carter Construction Co.

April 1979

Symbolic ...

Original Site of First Presbyterian Church

The Rev. William M. Baker and five charter members organized the First Presbyterian Church of Austin on May 26, 1850. Abner H. Cook, future designer of the Governor's Mansion, was among the charter members and was elected a ruling elder. ...

The LBJ Plaza

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) and opened in the spring of 1971. The design featured the monumental library building clad in Roman travertine and an expansive plaza ...

Junction of 20th and 14th Corps

With the right wing of his army in the vicinity of Clinton and Macon, General Sherman, with the left wing, appeared at this point on November 23, 1864. The left wing, consisting of the 20th and 14th corps, was comprised ...

Texas Highway Department

(Established April 4, 1917)

Early 20th century Texas farmers demanded all-weather access to markets just as automobiles revolutionized transportation for all travelers. Good roads promoters envisioned a central state agency to organize safe, consistent routes. In 1916 the Federal Government offered ...

Historic Polegreen Church

In 1747, the meetinghouse here became vital to the colonists' struggle for religious and civil liberty when Samuel Morris and other Hanover Presbyterian dissenters called the Rev. Samuel Davies (1723-1761) to become pastor. Davies, a great orator who inspired Patrick ...