The Petition of John Ewart

The Petition of John Ewart of the Town of York:

Humbly Shewith:

That while your Petitioner was performing his contract for building the Court House and Gaol in the town of London, in the London District, he was located by Colonel Talbot ...

The British Army

Lord Rawdon commanded less than 950 men at Hobkirk’s Hill. The majority were American Loyalists in the Volunteers of Ireland (140), the King’s American Regiment (160), New York Volunteers (160), the South Carolina Royalists (130), and Major John Coffin’s dragoons ...

The Gaol and Courthouse, London, c.1843

Painting by George Russell Dartnell

“More change has been caused to the views around London by the cutting down of hills and the building of gullies.”

--Harriet Priddis, in her “Reminiscences” (1902)

In the 1840s George Russell Dartnell depicted the London District ...

Ronnie Gene Flippo

In his 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives (1977-1991), Ronnie Flippo held such important post as the chairmanship of the Space Science Subcommittee during the development of the space shuttle, Columbia.

Inducted 2007

City of Florence Walk of Honor

Marker ...

65th Ohio Infantry.

Harker's Brigade.

Killed 1, Wounded 13.

Marker is on South Crest Road south of East Main Street, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Inventing Flight: The Centennial Celebration

On this site, from July 3 through July 20, 2003, the world focused its attention on Dayton as the Birthplace of Aviation for the one hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight and as a Signature Event of the ...

War Efforts at Home

We Answered the Call

In Beatrice, industries pooled resources to obtain defense contracts by creating Homestead Industries, Inc. This "war production pool of industries" included Dempster Industries, Store Kraft Manufacturing, W.M. Haith Tank Works, Beatrice Steel Tank, Petersen and F.D. Kees ...

The Ridout Street Complex

This streetscape includes several of London's earliest buildings and provides a capsule view of the appearance of mid-19th century Ontario cities. These buildings, the earliest of which was begun in 1835, include residential, industrial and commercial premises all intermingled on ...

Colonel Edward Deeds

Colonel Edward Deeds (1874-1960) was among the core of Dayton's brilliant leadership in the first half of the 20th century. As vice president of NCR, Deeds' mentored Charles Kettering, hiring him back

every time the fickle John Patterson fired him.

During ...

Como–Harriet Streetcar Line

For 74 years this transit railway carried passengers to downtown jobs, to University of Minnesota classes, and to picnics and concerts on the shores of Lake Harriet.

Steam passenger trains of the Minneapolis, Lyndale & Minnetonka Railway first reached this station ...