The Earth's Blood Flows Past You

Clark Fork Corridor: The River

For thousands of years the Sqelixw—people of the Salish, Pend Oreille and Kalispel tribes—inhabited the valleys of the Clark Fork and other rivers of western Montana. They used their extensive knowledge of the natural world to ...

Van Schaick Burial Plot

First Settlers of Cohoes

And Owners of Half Moon

Patent Buried Here

Marker can be reached from Delaware Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Pawnee: Prairie Town Builders, Pawnee History

The Pawnee: Prairie Town Builders, Pawnee History

The Pawnee migrated from the Southwest and lived in the Platte and Loup Village areas for more than seven centuries.

The Pawnee were the most influential and populous of the native peoples of Nebraska. They ...

Andrew Bryan

Andrew Bryan was born at Goose Creek, S.C. about 1716. He came to Savannah as a slave and here he was baptized by the Negro missionary, the Reverend George Leile, in 1781. Leile evacuated with the British in 1782 at ...

William "Uncle Bill" Lewis

Born a slave in Winchester, Tennessee, William Lewis came to Chattanooga in 1837, when it was Ross' Landing. After building a thriving blacksmith business, Lewis purchased his and his wife's freedom. In 1851, he purchased the freedom of his mother, ...

Luella Buckminster-Johnston

1861 – 1958

An outspoken proponent of suffrage for women, she became the first of her gender elected to a municipal office in Sacramento, being swept into office by an all male electorate before women attained the right to vote. Widow ...

Mount Arie (Mount Ararat) Missionary Baptist Church

Bartlett was a small farming community in 1898. Black American laborers arrived each fall for the cotton harvest. Thomas Sanders and Nelson Secret and their families called the Reverend F. E. Garrett of Temple to help them establish Mount Arie ...

Bethel Church

This African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first separate black church in Georgetown County. It was established by the Rev. A. T. Carr shortly after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves. The church purchased this property Jan. 15, ...

The Battle of Ox Hill

(Kiosk Panel): Wounds Suffered at Ox Hill (Chantilly)

September 1, 1862

Union Soldiers

4th Maine, 2nd Brigade (Birney), Kearny’s Division:

Pvt. Lorenzo E. Dickey, Co. A, Age 21: At Chantilly, received gunshot would in right thigh. Taken to a field ...

Sabino Y Lemitar

The Camino Real passed near here below the bluffs on the east bank of the Rio Grande. Apache raids prevented permanent Spanish settlement of this area until the early 1800s, when the village of Sabino was established on the east ...