Montgolfier Brothers

1783

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joseph and Etíenne de Montgolfier, brothers living in France in the ...

Nathaniel Russell House

Nathaniel Russell House

has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America

1974

National Park Service

United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on Meeting Street ...

Shingletown Store

Freeland's store was built by John and Jane Freeland in 1854. Jane was registered as a sole trader in 1861, in Sierra Township (Shingletown) in the businesses of stockraising, farming and hotel-keeping, with their sons Bradford and William. The store ...

Timothy Ford's House

circa 1800

Timothy Ford, a native of Morristown, New Jersey, Princeton educated attorney who as a youth served in the American Revolution, built this fine Charleston single house in the Adamesque style. Ford entertained the Marquis de Lafayette here on ...

In Their Springfield Prime

1854 marked Lincoln's public return to politics following a five-year hiatus. That year Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois pushed the "Kansas-Nebraska Act" through the U.S. Congress, overturning the 1820 Missouri Compromise line. Fearing the spread of slavery to western ...

6th Wisconsin Infantry

Second Battle of Manassas

August 28, 1862

7:00 p.m.

4th Brigade (Gibbon), First Division (King)

Third Corps (McDowell), Army of Virginia, USA

6th Wisconsin Infantry

Col. Lysander Cutler

"When at short range, Colonel Cutler ordered the regiment to halt and fire. We were on low ground which, ...

15th Alabama Infantry

Second Battle of Manassas

August 28, 1862

7:15 p.m.

Trimble's Brigade, Ewell's Division

Left Wing (Jackson)

Army of Northern Virginia, CSA

15th Alabama Infantry

Maj. A. A. Lowther

"My position in line at this fence was in the immediate rear of Alonzo Watson. We were both on our ...

Owen County (Indiana) War Memorial

[Front Plaque]

In Grateful Recognition

of the

Patriotic Service Rendered by

The Men and Women of Owen County

During the World War

1917 - 1918

[Back Plaque]

This tablet is erected

in memory of these men of

Owen County

who gave their lives

in the World War

1914 - 1918

Edward C. Call • ...

The First Presbyterian Church of Charleston

Organized 1731 / Incorporated 1784

Originally founded by twelve Scottish families, it was familiarly known in its early history as the Scots' Kirk.

The present church replaced an earlier one, which had been enlarged once before the American Revolution and ...

Saint Augustine Catholic Church

Oldest Black Catholic Church in the Nation's Capitol

On Trinity Sunday June 11, 1876 the first Black Catholic Church in Washington District of Columbia was dedicated under the patronage of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo in Africa. Saint Augustine Church stood ...