Euchee Valley Presbyterian Church And Cemetery

This is the site of one of Florida’s oldest organized Presbyterian Church which was the largest Presbyterian Church in Florida until 1885. On May 27, 1827, the Reverend Murdoch Murphy of the Alabama Synod presided with one Elder, Donald McLean, ...

Pioneer Home

Isaac Chase -- Brigham Young

This home was erected 1853-1854 by Isaac Chase who with his wife Phebe and their family came to Utah in 1847. Originally it had eight rooms, including a large kitchen with a built-in dutch oven. The ...

Infusing Style and Sophistication:

The Influence of Maximilian Godefroy

For its first 25 years, the burying ground remained a simple place characterized by plain grave markers. After 1810, tastes changed and First Presbyterian Church's leading public figures demanded the ornate.

The most dramatic change was a ...

President's House

Circa 1770

Built as the parsonage of

St. Philip's Church and home

of the Reverend Robert Smith,

The College of Charleston's

first president (1790~1797).

The College's initial classes

were held in 1785 on the

ground floor.

The house is the ...

Liberty Park

The original five acre plot, located in the Big Field Survey, was assigned to Isaac Chase, a pioneer of 1847. A spring of clear water made it a verdant spot. Later he purchased three other tracts and planted seeds of ...

Among Family: Poe’s Original Burial Place

He lies buried amongst his kindred ... and no stone or monument yet marks his resting-place."

J. Thomas Scharf's Chronicles of Baltimore, 1874

Edgar Allan Poe was buried here on October 8, 1849, a day after his lingering death in Baltimore's Washington ...

Original Burial Place of Edgar Allan Poe

From

October 9, 1849

until

November 17, 1875

Mrs. Maria Glemm, his mother-in-law, lies upon his right and Virginia Poe, his wife, upon his left, under the monument erected to him in this cemetery.

Marker can be reached from the ...

Two Future Presidents In Wartime Retreat

Hanging Rock Battlefield Trail

On June 21, 1864, two future presidents marched with Major General David Hunter’s Army of Western Virginia on its retreat from Lynchburg to West Virginia by way of Hanging Rock and the old New Castle Turnpike.

Colonel ...

KCBQ “Top 40” Personalities

1958 to 1978

[ Upper Plaque: ]

In 1958, here at 9416 Mission Gorge Road, then owner Lee Bartell built the KCBQ AM 1170 radio broadcast facility with its 50,000 watt transmitter and six two-hundred foot towers. For many years, KCBQ AM ...

Devil's Den and the Slaughter Pen

July 2nd 1863 - Second Day

"Awful, awful rocks!!"

For weeks after the battle, a delirious Alabama soldier suffering from his wounds repeated these words

The labyrinth of boulders and crevices in front of you was known to local residents as "Devil's Den," ...