The Story of the Bell

By Mrs. Mary Meyers

The talk was the dream of Rev. J.A. Marler, Pastor, to have a church bell. The members were too poor to buy one. Several men began to make plans to purchase a bell by raising money through ...

A Trophy of War

After the fall of Fort Fisher, the Armstrong gun became a war trophy and the focus of photographs and newspaper articles. Union soldiers, such as Captain Trickey of the 3rd New Hampshire, noted the “elegantly mounted Armstrong gun … the ...

Judge William Prince

Erected 1914

Centennial Year

by

General John Gibson

Chapter Daughters

of the

American Revolution

in Honor of

Judge William Prince

after whom Princeton

was Named

Marker is at the intersection of West Broadway Street (Indiana Route 64) and North Hart Street, on the ...

James A. Garfield

(Front):James A. Garfield

1831 - 1881

(Left):Major General USV,

Member of Congress,

Senator

and

President

of the

United States

of

America.

(Right):Erected

by his comrades

of the

Society of the Army

of the

Cumberland

May 12 1887.

Marker is at ...

Fort Fisher’s Armstrong Canon

The most effective gun in the fort. – Col. William Lamb, Fort Fisher commander

The Confederacy relied heavily on English artillery during the Civil War. A variety of English cannons, including Whitworths and Blakelys, were imported and used at Fort fisher. ...

Fighting the Sea - Saving the Fort

Seacoast erosion, intensified by hurricanes and other major storms, has been a problem and controversial issue at Fort Fisher and elsewhere along the North Carolina coast for decades.

Erosion at Fort Fisher intensified after the 1930s. By 1968 more than 200 ...

The Ramona Hotel Depot

The Ramona Depot

In March of 1896, the Southern Pacific Railroad officially declared that the Ramona Hotel will be an eating station for passengers heading north and south. ”It is expected that within a few days tickets can be purchased from ...

New Harmony Area Veterans Memorial

Dedicated

to the

Men and Women

of the

Armed Forces

for their

Service to

The

United States

of

America

Marker is on Church Street (Indiana Route 66) east of Main Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Blockade-Running

Steam-powered blockade-runners, usually British, made 1,300 attempts to enter Southern ports with vital supplies during the Civil War. More than 1,000 of the trips succeeded.

The most successful vessels were specially built for the trade—stealthy, steam-powered, shallow-draft, low-profile, camouflaged gray phantoms.

Yet ...

Larkmead Winery / Kornell Cellars

Felix Salmina arrived from Switzerland in the 1860’s and in 1892 purchased this winery that had been established in 1884 by Lillian Hitchcock Coit. Felix converted the winery into a larger facility using stone quarried from nearby hills and expanded ...