History of Old Town Center

The Masonic Building was built by S.G. Beach and Company in the fall of 1893 for the Placerville Masonic Hall Association, using 85,000 first quality bricks shipped from Sacramento. It housed some of the finest legal talent in the county, ...

Washington Artillery, Longstreet's Command

C.S.A.

Washington Artillery, Longstreet's Command,

Col J. B. Walton, Commanding.

Organization.

1st Company, Washington Artillery, La.

2nd Company, Washington Artillery, La.

3rd Company, Washington Artillery, La.

4th Company, Washington Artillery, La.

September 15-16, 1862.

The Washington Artillery crossed the Antietam about 9 a.m. of the 15th and took position ...

Charter Oak Seedling

In observance of the U.S. Bicentennial, Elizabeth Clarke Hull Chapter NSDAR marks the site of a Charter Oak seedling given to the City of Ansonia Oct. 27, 1966, by former Mayor Frank P. Fitzpatrick

May 15, 1976

Marker is at the ...

French & Indian War – Revolutionary War – War of 1812

Soldiers of Franklin County

French and Indian War     1755-1758

In this war there were so far as can be determined two or three organized companies of Associators within the present limits of the county, who took part in ...

Derby Korea – Vietnam Memorial

Dedicated to Those Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice and Advanced the American Ideals of Liberty and the Brotherhood of Man

Korea

James Ellingwood Towle 1st Lt. U.S.A.F.

Vietnam

Norman Edward Dawson Jr. P.F.C. U.S.M.C. • George Albert Kurtyka T. ...

Millfield Coal Mine Disaster

November 5, 1930

Ohio's worst mine disaster occurred in this Sunday Creek Coal Company mine when an explosion killed 82 persons. Among the dead were the company's top executives who were in the mine inspecting new safety equipment. Nine hours after ...

Todd and Tony Carr Memorial

Jacksonville Volunteer Fire Department

In memory of

Todd Carr

Died June 27, 1989

and

Tony Carr

Died March 21, 1989

Volunteer Firemen

Always there when needed

Marker is on 6th Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

S.S. Oklahoma and Esso Baton Rouge

Attacked by U-123

After midnight on April 8, 1942, the German submarine U-123 was in position off the St. Simons Island sea buoy. Minutes later it chased and torpedoed two tankers, the Oklahoma and Esso Baton Rouge, killing twenty-two crew members. ...

The End of the Trail

?Created as a tribute to the American Indian by James Earle Fraser (1876–1953) when only 17. His twice life-sized plaster replica gained world fame at the 1915 San Franciso Exposition. Clarence Shaler, Waupun industrialist, commissioned this first bronze casting. Dedication ...

Archibald Campbell’s Tavern

Archibald Campbell’s tavern stood here. He supplied meals to General Washington when Peter Zabriskie’s home was used as military headquarters between November 13 and November 21, 1776 during the retreat across New Jersey. The army marched down Main Street and ...