The Visit of President Theodore Roosevelt’s “Great White Fleet”

Centennial Celebration

In Commemoration of The Visit of President Theodore Roosevelt’s “Great White Fleet” to Seattle in May of 1908. From here The Fleet Continued on Their Famous Round the World Cruise.

Dedicated May 20, 2008 by Mayor Greg Nickels

White Hall Tavern

Located directly across from the U.S. Armory, the White Hall Tavern was an 1850's community gathering place, where white males debated politics; discussed local events; and protested armory management, wages and layoffs. The tavern's close proximity easily tempted armory workers ...

Colored and White Soldiers of World War 1

This is a replica of the original tablet from the 1924 World War I monument located in front of the Clarke County Courthouse. The monument was the first memorial ever erected to honor county war dead. It cost $1,650 and ...

White - Force Cottage

This Italianate style cottage was built in 1859 by C. B. and Martha Todd White. Mrs. White, half sister of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, was an outspoken Southern patriot, who subjected the Lincolns to severe criticism, when the Northern press accused ...

Riverside Beach / White's Paridise

Riverside Beach

Riverside Beach, developed by the Cooper River Bridge Company, opened in 1930 as the first black beach in the area. It was sold to the County in 1941. The site featured a dance pavilion, boardwalk, bath house, playground ...

World's Largest White Pine Log

Biggest & Last Sleigh Hauled Log

This white pine log was sleigh hauled to Glidden on Dec. 21, 1984 on the sleigh it sets on. It was cut on State 40 14 miles east of Glidden. Its estimated weight is 7000 ...

Black and White

In the early months of World War II, the Navy Department designated Great Lakes as the only site for training African-American recruits. Since recruit training camps were named after naval heroes, it was thought fitting to do the same for ...

White Bluff

Composed of limestone or “Selma

chalk” which abounds in fossils.

Called “Ecor Blanc” by

eighteenth-century French explorers

and cartographers.

Named “Chickasaw Gallery” because

early Indian inhabitants harassed

boats from here.

Landing site of Bonapartist exiles

who established the

“Vine and Olive Colony” in 1817.

Marker is on West Monroe Street.

Courtesy ...

The White House

This reconstruction log building, faced with clapboard and painted white, was occupied by Mother Seton and her little community in February 1810. At the close of the year the school numbered thirty boarders and forty day pupils.

In 1817 this ...

Whitehaven

Side A

Main part of house, two~story brick structure, built in 1860s by Edward Anderson. Edward Atkins bought it in 1903 and had noted Paducah architect A.L. Lassiter transform Victorian farmhouse into Classical revival mansion. He added the Corinthian ...