Timothy Brown House

1863-1865

This Italianate brick house was constructed for Timothy Brown of New York State, a real estate speculator, founder of the First National Bank, and an official of the Madison Gas Light and Coke Company. Brown was induced to come to ...

Cape Fear Club

Founded in 1866; oldest men’s social club in N.C. Guilford F. Dudley, first president, Building here in use since 1913.

Marker is at the intersection of North 2nd Street and Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling north on North 2nd ...

Mansion Hill Historic District

Known variously as Yankee Hill, Aristocrat Hill and Big Bug Hill, the area north of the Capitol Square near Lake Mendota was selected by Madison's business, political, and academic elites in the 19th century for their homes. Successuful bankers, timber ...

Life in Fort Adams

I did not have far or long to look, because, being the junior officer of the garrison I could displace no other, and besides, there was but one casemate available for me to choose from . . . A good ...

The 81st Infantry Division

Here trained

For Victory

Under

Desert Skies

The

81st Infantry

Division

The Wildcats

1943

In Memoriam

Privates

Robert J Vilella

Paul M. West

Earl S. Smith

James J. DeCarlo

Lynn Ramsey

Clyde B. Slayton

Arden W. Bridges

Courtesy hmdb.org

Period Garden Park

City of Madison

Designed to preserve part of the original gracious character of the Mansion Hill area, the Period Garden Park incorporated historical elements that complement its two landmark neighbors, the Elisha Keyes House and the Timothy Brown House. The combination ...

Boeing B-50A The "Long Ranger"

On the morning of March 23, 1950, an Air Force B-50 Bomber on a routine training mission, exploded and crashed north of the communities of Dateland and Hyder AZ. Two of the 14 crewman on board, Capt. John H. Lee ...

Shoemaker-Bosler Mill Site

The first mill on the site erected in 1746 was owned and operated by Dorothy Penrose Shoemaker, a descendant of Richard Wall. In 1847 their neighbor and employee Charles Bosler, whose business was hauling grain to the mill and flour ...

Shoemaker-Bosler Mill Site

The first mill on the site erected in 1746 was owned and operated by Dorothy Penrose Shoemaker, a descendant of Richard Wall. In 1847 their neighbor and employee Charles Bosler, whose business was hauling grain to the mill and flour ...

Frederica

" Frederica is situated on the Island of

St. Simons, in the middle of an Indian

field where our people found 30 or 40

acres cleared by them."

Francis Moore

1736

A Voyage to Georgia

The first british settlers landed here on

February 18, ...