Ruby’s Place/La maison de Ruby

[English:]

Opened as a boarding house and laundry in 1902, the building was taken over by Mathilde “Ruby” Scott in 1935. For over 27 years, this former Paris Madame operated a brothel here, finding a ready clientele in the seasonal workers ...

El Chino-Pajarito Restaurant

Cuban exiles in the 1890s met to plot for independence at a restaurant operated on this site by the patriot Antonio Menendez, a Chinese from Cuba.

Many revolutionaries on their way to join the Mambi Army in Cuba, were given ...

Texas Statesman William Pettus Hobby

(1878-1964)

Businessman and politician William Pettus Hobby was born near this Moscow site, the son of Eudora Adeline (Pettus)and Edwin E. Hobby, a state senator and judge. At age 17, William joined the staff of the Houston Post and rose to ...

Zion Chapel of Ease and Cemetery

A Chapel of St. Luke's Parrish,

established May 23, 1767, built of

wood shortly after 1786 under the

direction of Captain John Stoney

and Isaac Fripp, was consecrated

in 1833. Members of the Barksdale,

Baynard, Chaplin, Davant, Fripp,

Kirk, Mathews, Pope, Stoney, and

Webb families worshiped here. ...

First Army Corps

Phelps' Brigade, Doubleday's Division

U.S.A.

First Army Corps,

Phelps' Brigade, Doubleday's Division,

Col. Walter Phelps, 22d New York Infantry,

Commanding.

Organization.

22d, 24th, 30th and 84th New York Infantry,

And 2d U.S. Sharpshooters,

(September 17, 1862.)

Phelps' Brigade formed line at 5/30 a.m., on September 17, and moved in support ...

Reservoir Park

This land, the largest park in south-central Pennsylvania, and which crowns the city's summit, contrastingly complements Harrisburg's magnificent riverfront. Originally known as Prospect Hill because of its lofty vantage points, the name was changed to Reservoir Park when the first ...

Mount Pleasant Press - The J. Horace McFarland Company

Located in this building at Mulberry and Crescent Streets was what became known as the "Switchboard of America," the printing business and national clearinghouse operation of J. Horace McFarland (1859-1948), one of Harrisburg's most famous national figures during the first ...

deLauzun Encampment

Rochambeau Route 1781 – 82

In this vicinity

French Troops under

deLauzun

enroute to Yorktown

encamped during June 1781

Erected by the State

and

Wallingford

Historical Society

Cooperating

Marker is at the intersection of Chapel Street and Wooster Place, on the left when traveling east on Chapel Street. ...

121st Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):121st Penna. Infantry

July 1st 1863

Occupied this position the extreme left of

the Union line. July 2nd & 3rd on Cemetery Ridge.

Present at Gettysburg 11 officers 286 men.

Killed and died of wounds 20 men

Wounded 5 officers 33 men

Captured and ...

Post Oak Island Lodge #181, A.F. & A.M.

Settled as early as the 1840s, Post Oak Island was one of this area’s earliest communities. There, on September 15, 1855, I.J. Kidd, T. Gatlin, P.A. Middleton, M. Gardner and A.S. Harper established a Masonic lodge. On February 2, 1856, ...