Negley's and Wilder's Demonstrations Against Chattanooga

On June 7 and 8, 1862, General Negley in command of a Union reconnoitering force appeared on Stringer's Ridge northwest of this point, and screened by the timber opened with artillery on the city and line of rifle pits (then ...

The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad

The Burlington & Missouri River Railroad entered Nebraska at Plattsmouth in 1870 and built west to join the Union Pacific at Kearney Junction (now Kearney city) on September 3, 1872. The railroad bridge into Kearney was used for 104 ...

Dobytown

Following the 1848 establishment of Fort Kearny two miles east of here and the later expansion of overland commerce and emigration, the small commercial center of Kearney City was established here in 1859. The town's more common name, Dobytown, was ...

Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge

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to the northeast

In 1863, Chattanooga was a major railroad hub with a population of 2,500. In late November the city was in Union hands, while Confederate forces occupied Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. Both sides struggled for ...

Battle Above the Clouds

Hooker's troops

drove the Confederates

from Lookout Mountain

On November 24, 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the Union commander, ordered Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's forces to storm Lookout Mountain. Hooker's men swept up the western slope of the mountain from your left, ...

Prehistoric Mesa Verde Reservoirs

National Historic

Civil Engineering Landmark

[American Society of Civil Engineering

1852 Logo]

Prehistoric Mesa Verde Reservoirs

Mesa Verde's industrious Ancestral Puebloans designed, constructed, and maintained Morefield, Box Elder, Far View and Sagebrush Reservoirs for domestic water-storage between A.D. 750 and 1180.

Marker can be reached from ...

The Decline of the Jewish Community of Gerolzhofen from January

Niedergang der Jüdische Gemeinde Gerolzhofen ab 30. Januar 1933

[Marker text in German:]

Urkundlich nachweisbar genehmigte im Jahr 1425 Fürstbischof Johann II v. Brunn die Ansässigmachung von Juden in Gerolzhofen. Viele jüdische Mitbürger engagierten sich im öffentlichen Leben und genossen Vertrauen und ...

Great Barrington World War I Monument

Erected November 11th 1936

By the School Children

Of Great Barrington and Housatonic

In Honor of the 359 Men and Women

Who Served Their Country

In the World War.

Abel, Harrison G. • Ackerman, Arthur P. • Adams, Ernest W. • Alcott, Bruce • Alcott, ...

Staunton’s Wharf Historic District History

When the Central Virginia Railroad was built in 1854, it changed Staunton from a rural village into a booming center of commerce. By the turn of the century, the warehouses that had grown up around the train depot supplied everything ...

Tennessee River and Moccasin Bend

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Here the Tennessee River makes a sweeping, clockwise loop around Moccasin Bend. In 1863, vital supplies were brought to the besieged Federals in Chattanooga across the "neck" of Moccasin Bend, using pontoon bridges at ...