The Latta Library

In 1911 W. C. Allen led a movement for a public library in Latta and was authorized by the town council to negotiate with Andrew Carnegie for funds. After the town complied with conditions set by Mr. Carnegie, he donated ...

Tahoe By Car

Automotive Adventures

Imagine what an adventure it must have been for Tahoe’s early motorists. Traveling in open-air Model Ts and Oldsmobiles, vacationers began driving as roads connected the Lake’s recreation spots. Completed in 1913, a rough road around Emerald Bay linked ...

Byron’s Meadow

Le Pré Byron

English text:

Dear Visitors from all over the world, and Residents of Cologny, we are happy to welcome you to this very beautiful site from which both the city of Geneva and the international organizations can be admired.

On this ...

Terror by the Tracks

On October 18, 1864 Reverend John B. Read, a lay preacher at the Falls Church Baptist Church, was executed in dense pine woods by the railroad bridge here at Piney Branch. Early that morning a contingent of Confederate Colonel John ...

Brooklyn City Railroad Company Building

8 Old Fulton Street

This handsome red brick building was built in 1860-61 as offices for the city of Brooklyn Railroad Company, one of New York City's first large-scale transit operators. By 1867, the company served 22 million passengers annually, operating ...

The Carriage Gates of Westminster Burying Ground

Westminster's carriage gates, completed in 1815, were among the nation's first examples of Egyptian Revival architecture. Commissioned by the First Presbyterian Church, the gates were designed by Maximilian Godefroy (1765-ca.1840), a French architect who spent 15 productive years in Baltimore.

First Garden Club

1891

Founders’ Memorial Garden which commemorates the founders of America’s first garden club. The Ladies Garden Club organized in 1891, Athens, Georgia. This garden was developed on University of Georgia campus by University’s Landscape Architecture Department and the Garden Club of ...

Camp Bragg Memorial

Near this spot in the autumn of

1862 the 21st and 32d Regiments

Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

were encamped for organization

before proceeding to the front.

Erected 1915

Marker is at the intersection of Hazel Street and East Irving Avenue, on the right when traveling south ...

Poe's Baltimore

A Place of Beginnings and Endings

Edgar Allan Poe, the American literary genius best known for his short stories and poems, often claimed Baltimore as his birthplace. In Baltimore, Poe found love and affection, launched his literary career - and ...

Willamsburg County Veterans Monument

Front Center

Seal of the American Legion

Honoring all who served and Dedicated to the everlasting memory of those who gave their lives for the cause of Freedom in World War I and World War II

Seal of Veterans of ...