The Peanut House

(The Zimmerman House)

On this site for nearly 180 years stood a two and a-half story brick building with ties to local, state and national history. Initially the home of early settler John Frey, the house was sold in 1817 to ...

Mrs. E.P. (Stella) King Building

Albert Dodge Coplin, Architect

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 2005

This corner store was built for Stella King’s dry goods business and upstairs residence. Until the shop closed in 1923, it was a gathering place where neighbors could find everything from sewing ...

The CCC in York County / Tom Johnston Camp, (SCS#10), CCC

The CCC in York County

One of the most successful of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), created in 1933. It gave many young men and World War veterans jobs planting trees, fighting forest fires ...

Peter Pond

Peter Pond

1740 – 1807

Somewhere in the adjacent cemetery lies the unmarked grave of Peter Pond, a veteran of the French and Indian War, fur trader, explorer and cartographer born in Milford. He helped organize expeditions west of the Great Lakes. ...

Deep Bottom Park

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

Fourmile Creek flows into the slender oxbow of the James River here. Oxbows, successive curvatures in the river’s course, forced Smith and his men to row long distances on their exploratory trip upstream. Navigating ...

Cincinnati Public Markets / The Northern Liberties

Side A: Cincinnati Public Markets

Public markets housing butchers, fish merchants, and produce vendors were once the primary source of perishable foods for residents of America's cities. Cincinnati operated nine in 1859. Only Findlay Market, built here in 1852, ...

Jacob Epstein

1864-1945

Innovative wholesale merchant to the South and collector of Old Master paintings. As a philanthropist, he inaugurated the system of matching charitable grants.

Marker is on Park Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps

Major General George SykesFirst Division Brigadier General James Barnes

Second Division Brigadier General Romeyn B. Ayres

Third Division Brigadier General Samuel W. Crawford

Artillery Brigade Captain Augustus P. Martin

July 2. Arrived early in the morning and went into position ...

The Works of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Compa

On this site in 1891, Thomas Edison developed an enormous complex of mines, crushers, separators, and subsidiary buildings that came to be known as “Edison” or, more properly, “The Works of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Company.” This company ...

Ninth Army Corps

Crook's Brigade, Kanawha Division

U.S.A.

Ninth Army Corps.

Crook's Brigade, Kanawha Division,

Col. George Crook, 36th Ohio Infantry, Commanding.

Organization.

11th, 28th and 36th Ohio Infantry,

Simmonds' (Ky.) Battery.

September 16-17, 1862.

On the evening of September 16th Crook's Brigade formed line on the ridge east o the Antietam, ...