First Coca-Cola Bottling Company In The United States

On July 21, 1899, two Chattanooga lawyers, Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead, signed a contract with the Coca-Cola Company granting them the exclusive rights to bottle Coca-Cola in most of the United States. Another Chattanooga citizen, John Thomas ...

Skirmish of Albuquerque

April 8-9, 1862

While Confederate Brigadier General H. H. Sibley was assembling the bulk of his army at Santa Fe, Union Colonel E.R.S. Canby moved 1200 men from Fort Craig to occupy Albuquerque – "If it can be done without serious ...

Home Guard Defended Covered Bridge / Bridging The Black Warrior

(Front):Home Guard Defended Covered Bridge3 April 1865 - Brig Gen John T. Croxton’s Cavalry Brigade departed camp at Johnson’s Ferry (Old Lock 17 area) to the Watermelon Road ending in Northport. As the Union troops entered Northport, the Methodist Church ...

Bohemian National Cemetery

This cemetery with original records written in Czech dated October 22, 1905, nestles in the heart of the Bohemian farm settlement ¼ mile north of their Fraternal Hall on Highway 27.

The 33 families who cleared the land and plotted it ...

Baltimore's Great Fire

Started 10-48 A.M.

February 7 1904

Under control 11-30 A.M.

February 8 1904

Property destroyed - $100 000 000

Insurance paid - $32 000 000

Acres covered - 140

Lives lost - none

Beginning at Liberty and German Streets the fire swept north to Fayette Street east to ...

Deep Bottom Landing

A Vital Link

After the Battle of Cold Harbor in June 1864, Grant and Lee shifted their armies to Petersburg; but Grant did not wish to abandon the Richmond front entirely. He had Gen. Benjamin Butler position a small force from ...

That Beautiful Charge

March 8, 1862 - Mid-Morning

That beautiful charge I shall never forget; with banners streaming, with drums beating, and our long line of blue coats advancing upon the double quick, with their deadly bayonets gleaming in the sunlight, and every man ...

Stark’s Brigade

Stark’s Brigade

occupied this slope.

Marker can be reached from Jockey Hollow Road, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

San Felipe de Alburquerque

First marker on left:

San Felipe de Alburquerque, named for King Phillip V of Spain and the Duke of Alburquerque was, founded in 1706 by Gov. Francisco Cuervo Valdez with 30 families from Bernalillo accompanied by soldiers to protect them from ...

Third Brigade

First Division - Third Corps

Army of the Potomac

Third Corps First Division

Third Brigade

Col. P. Regis De Trobriand

17th. Maine 3d. 5th. Michigan 40th. New York

110th. (6 Cos.) Pennsylvania Infantry

July 2 Arrived at 10 a.m. On the advance of the Division between 2 ...