Bethesda Baptist Church

When Bethesda Baptist Church was organized in 1785, it was known as Whatley’s Mill Church, and was in Wilkes County before it was added to Greene in 1802. When the present building was erected in 1818, the name was changed ...

Old Harrisburg Academy/Dixon University Center

Founded in 1784 by John Harris Jr., through profits generated by his Ferry across the Susquehanna, the Harrisburg Academy erected this riverside campus in 1908. The school was officially incorporated through an Act of the State Legislature in 1809 and ...

The Bayshore Boulevard

In 1907, Alfred Swann and Eugene Holtsinger constructed the original section of seawall and roadway extending from Swann Avenue to Rome Avenue. This initial section, which was called Bayshore Drive, served Suburb Beautiful, the first residential development along the bayshore. ...

Central Railroad & Bank Bldg.

Georgia Historical Society records

show that this building, built in 1853

for the Central Railroad & Bank was

confiscated by Gen. Wm. T. Sherman's

Union Army Forces as the military

hdqrs. of the Post Commandant, Gen.

J.W. Geary during the ...

The abrupt end of Fort Miles

The Army started dismantling Fort Miles before it was even finished – not in the face of enemy invasion but because advances in warfare made it instantly obsolete. In fact, as early as 1943, construction of the entire nationwide Harbor ...

Florence Rena Sabin, M.D.

1871-1953

First woman full professor

at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Introducer of techniques for staining living cells. Reformer of Colorado's health laws. Her statue stands in

the U.S. Capitol.

Marker is on Park Avenue, on the right when traveling ...

The Battle of Malvern Hill

Advance of the Excelsior Regiments

“We reached the field; here were wounded men and the dead, but we heeded them not. We relieved the 7th New York Regiment and poured in a hot fire; still they kept the field, men falling ...

Auditorium Building

Adler and Sullivan, architects

The extraordinary engineering talent of Dankmar Adler and the architectural genius of Louis Sullivan created this building to reflect the cultural maturity of Chicago. Combining hotel and office space with a splendid theater, the Auditorium was a ...

Business Boomed at Big Bull Falls

The earliest American settlers were drawn to Big Bull Falls for the timber business, but other businesses soon sprouted. Lumbermen and their families needed supplies and services. Soon after George Stevens built the first sawmill Wausau began to grow.

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Harrisburg State Hospital

The first State mental hospital in Pennsylvania. Opened in 1851, a result of efforts by the noted humanitarian, Dorothea Lynde Dix, to improve this State's treatment of the mentally ill. The hospital is on the wooded hills east of this ...