The Pink Haired Madame

If you lived in Pensacola at the dawn of the 20th Century, venturing south on Palafox below Government Street meant that you were looking for entertainment of an adult variety.

Known to local citizens as “The Line,” the ...

The Boulder Dam Hotel

The Boulder Dam Hotel has been part of Boulder City history since its opening in 1933. Designed by Mort Wagner the hotel was built by Paul Stewart "Jim" Webb, Raymond Spilsbury, and Austin Clark. It is located in Cardenas Plaza ...

The Irish Connection to Fort Adams

Problem . . . Insufficient workforce to build a Fortress.

The solution would come from Ireland. Five hundred families came to not only escape famine and economic hardship, but here they obtained the freedoms they so longed for in their homeland.

Fort ...

Site of the Wall of New Amsterdam

Landmarks of New York

In 1653 the City of New Amsterdam erected a wall along the northern edge of town to protect the inhabitants from attack. This wall, five to six feet high, was constructed of heavy planks laid horizontally, ...

The Dam Works

The Lexington is freed

By May 8, the water level had risen five feet four inches, allowing the lighter draft gunboats, the Fort Hindman, Neosho, and Osage, to cross the upper rapids and wait behind the dams. Fearing that the structure ...

100th Anniversary of the Crystal Springs Dam

Chrystal Springs Dam continues to provide the critical link in the delivery of water to the people of the San Francisco Peninsula. Centennial Observation held on this spot by joint resolution of the

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San Mateo County Board of Supervisors

Tom Huening, ...

The Milldam

1630 - 1930

This short stretch of street still known as the milldam was the site of an Indian fishing weir and was laid out along the dam built soon after the settlement of the town in 1635.

Marker is on Main ...

The TVA System of Multipurpose Dams

Nickajack Dam

The Tennessee River has its headwaters in the mountains of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. The main stream forms at Knoxville, where the Houston and the French Broad Rivers join.

The valley, 41,000 square miles in area, receives an ...

The TVA System of Multi-purpose Dams

Wheeler Dam

The Tennessee River has its headwaters in the mountains of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. The main stream forms at Knoxville, where the Houston and the French Broad Rivers join.

The valley, 41,000 square miles in area, receives an ...

The President's House - Washington and Adams

Presidents Washington and Adams lived and worked in a house on this site from 1790 to 1800. Here they established traditions and protocols that our presidents follow to this day.

The Washington Years

Washington moved into the President's House in ...