On Thursday, September 18, 2003

Hurricane Isabel, a massive Category-2 storm, slammed into the east coast.

With its eye located just south of the Chesapeake Bay, Isabel's high winds and tidal surge caused widespread flooding, property damage and power outages from North Carolina to New ...

Norfolk Botanical Gardens

These gardens were conceived by City Manager Thomas Thompson during the Great Depression. His idea was executed by city gardener Frederic Heutte; noted landscape architect Charles F. Gillette served as a consultant. In 1938 about 200 black women were paid ...

Duke of York's Martello Tower

York Redoubt

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The Duke of York's Martello Tower was one of many small towers built for coastal defence throughout the British Empire. They were usually round, with stone walls too thick to be penetrated by cannon balls. This ...

Captain Denis Cottineau De Kerloguen

In Honor and Grateful Memory of

Captain Denis Cottineau De Kerloguen

who was born in Nantes, France and died in Savannah Ga.,

November 20, 1808, aged 63 Years. In the war for American Independence

he fought with John Paul Jones in the famous battle ...

Arnold's Battery

July 2, & 3. 1863

(Front):Arnold's Battery

July 2, & 3, 1863

(Left):Battery A

1st R.I. L.A.

Artillery Brigade

2nd Corps

(Right):4 Killed

24 Wounded

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Bermuda Campaign

May 1864

As part of Ulysses S. Grant’s overall strategic plan to win the Civil War, Gen. Butler’s Federal army advanced up the James River in the spring of 1864 in an effort to operate against Richmond from the south while ...

Madera County Library Service

Starting in 1901 with a book on lumber, the library moved from place to place until 1917, when this historic building was built with county funds only. That eliminated strings from grants. An example of home rule. This was the ...

African-American Soldiers in Combat

Near Dalton on August 15, 1864, during the Civil War, the 14th United States Colored Troops (USCT), whose enlisted men were mostly former slaves, helped drive off a Confederate cavalry attack on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, U.S. General William ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition Across Missouri

"Groops of Shrubs covered with the most delicious froot is to be seen in every direction, and nature appears to have exerted herself to butify the Senery by the variety of flours [flowers] Delicately and highly flavered raised above the ...

The John Jay Potting Sheds

John Jay Homestead

After the American Civil War, the nation experienced tremendous economic growth in agriculture and industry. In the 1870s, the refrigerator car was introduced, and farmers expanded their market opportunities. Farming became big business. Between 1865 and 1890, ...