Georgia Railway and Power Company Trolley Waiting Station

The Georgia Railway and Power Company, predecessor of Georgia Power, built this trolley waiting station in 1923. The waiting station served Druid Hills residential development when the streetcar line on Ponce de Leon Avenue was extended from downtown to East ...

Lewis and Clark

To the Headwaters

Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery reached the headwaters of the Missouri River and named the three tributaries in July, 1805. With great difficulty the Corps of Discovery fought rapids and troublesome mosquitoes as they pulled their boats ...

Huntington Civil War Memorial

Panel A:

In grateful Memory of the

Volunteers from Huntington

Who offered up their Lives to

Preserve the Federal Union

in the

Great American Rebellion

Panel B:

Sergt. E.A. Sprague

Gauley River Va. Oct. 9, 1861 Æ 20

Wm R. Boon

At home Nov. 14, 1861 ...

Historic McGee-Spaulding District

Berkeley History

The District was part of the land granted by the king of Spain in 1820 to the Luis Peralta Family. The land was later purchased from Jose Domingo Peralta by four San Francisco businessmen. In 1855, James McGee (1814-1899), ...

Gravestone Art: Skulls, Wings, and Other Symbols

Most of the gravestones in Copp’s Hill Burying Ground are upright stone markers placed before 1825. The quality and complexity of the carving depended on the skill of the carver and the budget of the person buying the memorial. The ...

45th Illinois Infantry

Burial Place

Burial Place

45th Illinois Infantry

Bodies Removed

to

Nat'l Cemetery.

Marker is on Loop road to Confederate Burial Trench 0.1 miles west of Sherman Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Returning Old Glory 2001

While Fort Adams was in active service from 1842 to 1950, the United States flag flew proudly over the ramparts. When the last U.S. Army unit departed our flag was hauled down, and there was no longer a flagpole within ...

Confederate Burial Trench

(Stone monument)

To the Confederate Dead

in the Trenches

Erected by the U.D.C.

A.D. 1917

(Metal Tablet)

Burial Place

Confederate Soldiers

Shiloh

1862

(Bronze marker)

Unknown Soldier

Confederate States Army

Marker is on Loop road to Confederate Burial Trench 0.1 miles west of Sherman Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Main Street

In his 1680 survey of the site that was to become the Town of Norfolk, Lower Norfolk County surveyor John Ferebee laid out the principal street along a ridge of high land extending from Foure Farthing Pointe (Town Point Park) ...

Harold A. Rogers, O.C., O.B.E.

1899 - 1994

The founder of Kinsmen & Kinette Clubs of Canada was born and raised at 324 Dundas Street, directly across from the armouries. Seeking the camaraderie he had experienced in the army during the First World War, “Hal” Rogers ...