Federal Hill and Otterbein

The Federal Hill and Otterbein Historic Districts exemplify preservation efforts in Baltimore. Adjacent to the Inner Harbor, they were among the earliest areas developed in the city. After periods of economic prosperity and decline, these historic neighborhoods were rediscovered and ...

The Chesapeake Bay : History Happened Here

Your Navy at Work

Every type of Navy ship operates on the Chesapeake Bay en route to or from the great naval installations of Hampton Roads. There are easy ways to identify them, starting with color. Most navies in the world ...

Baillet Sisters

Jane (Jennie) Baillet

1834 - 1918

Emma Adell Baillet

1838 - 1926

Affa Ann Baillet

1850 - 1934

This house was the home of Jane, Emma, and Affa Baillet whose family purchased the property in 1868. From around 1870 to 1913 the sisters, businesswomen and artists, ...

Winship Building 1888

When E.A. Winship arrived from Minneapolis in 1887, it became clear that he was a gentleman and that he had money to invest. In March 1888, he purchased this site for $15,000 and announced plans for a brick building. This ...

The Black Brigade of Cincinnati

Side A:

Following the success of Confederate forces in eastern Kentucky and General John Hunt Morgan's raids there in 1862, Cincinnatians believed that Southern invasion was imminent. Anxious officials ordered Cincinnati citizens to form home guards, but black men willing to ...

Solo Gibbs Park

Solo Gibbs Park was created in 1979 when 1-395 was built. The 1869 Sachse Bird's Eye View Illustrated Map shows the once larger neighborhood where, since the late 1700s a free African American community lived, worked and worshipped along side ...

Chemical Laboratory

Cannon and artillery projectiles were not the only weapons tested at the Sandy Hook Proving Ground. Rifles, machine guns, and new types of gun powder and explosive fuses were tested there. At the chemistry lab, explosive and propellant compounds were ...

The Battle of White Oak Road

Breaking the Line

The Battle of White Oak Road left the Federals in position to block Confederate reinforcements from reaching their comrades further west. Both the Battle of White Oak Road and the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House were preludes to ...

Purrysburg Township

(Front text ):

In 1730, the British Crown instructed S.C.

Governor Robert Johnson to lay out eleven

townships to populate and protect the

interior of the province. Purrysburg

Township, laid out in 1731, stimulated the

settlement of this area; but the growth of

Savannah ...

Bark Camp Church

Constituted in the early part of 1788, Bark Camp Baptist Church was a center for culture and hospitality in Bark Camp, one of the oldest settlements in Burke County and a community of wealthy and prominent plantation owners. Among the ...