Frank D. Reeves

7760 16th Street, NW

Frank D. Reeves (1916–1973), a lawyer and civil

rights activist, was part of the team that shaped the

1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court

case outlawing school segregation. He advised

Senator John F. Kennedy ...

Georgia Infirmary

First African-American Hospital in the United States

Chartered by the Georgia General Assembly in 1832, the Infirmary was established "for the relief and protection of afflicted and aged Africans" under the provisions of the last will and testament of Savannah merchant ...

The Franklin County Courthouse

constructed in 1893, was designed by Geo. P. Washburn (Ottawa) one of the state's most prominent early architects. He designed fifteen courthouses in three states. This courthouse, because of its architectural excellence and being the best-kept example of his use ...

114th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry

Collis Zouaves

114th

Regiment

Penna. Infantry

Capt. Edward R. Bowen

Commanding

1st Brigade, 1st Division

3d Corps

July 3d 1863

3 p.m.

Collis Zouaves

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battles of Dunlap Farm

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On July 30, 1864, Gen. Stoneman with 2,500 cavalry crossed Walnut Creek & placed his cannon on a ridge on the Dunlap farm. He attacked Macon to capture the gold in the Confederate Depository; to destroy the Armory, Arsenal & ...

10th New York Infantry

(National Zouaves)

(Front):10th

New York

Infantry

(National Zouaves)

2d Brigade,

3d Division,

2d Corps.

July 3d 1863.

(Back):Mustered In April 27th, 1861.

At N.Y. City, For 2 Years.

Mustered Out May 7th, 1863.

Re-organized As 10th Battalion

New York Infantry

April 26th, 1863.

Mustered Out June 30th 1865.

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Held This Position

With 8 Officers and

90 Enlisted Men, ...

Schiffedecker Park

U. S. 66 Will Rogers Highway

picture of Will Rogers

Formerly Electric Park (1909-1912), is traced to a multi-acre dairy farm in the 1890's. Charles Schifferdecker acquired the land in the early 1900s. On Nov. 1, 1913 he deeded forty ...

Bushrod Crawford Building

This house, located on a part of original town lot #4, was built about 1850. It was the home of Bushrod Crawford who also operated a store in the building with his brother Absalom. Brushrod Crawford ran against John Hughes ...

The Battle of Fort Whitworth

This battery, also known as Fort Baldwin, Alexander or Anderson was garrisoned by the 19th & 48th Mississippi Infantry of Brig. Genl. Nathaniel Harris’s brigade. They were initially supported by guns of Louisiana’s Washington Artillery but these were withdrawn from ...

Confederate Fort Whitworth

Named for the Whitworth family of Mayfield, the farm on which it was built, this outpost (a quarter-mile east) and Fort Gregg, 400 yards to the south, were constructed to protect the western approaches to Petersburg during the 1864-1865 siege. ...