Airmount Grave Shelter And Cemetery

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This Greek Revival style brick structure is known as the Hope Family Grave Shelter. Constructed in 1853, it is listed on the National Register of Historical places. The unusual splayed eaves and vaulted or “compass” interior ceiling can be traced ...

Eldean Covered Bridge

Originally known as Allen's Mill Bridge, the Eldean Covered Bridge was built over the Great Miami River in 1860 for Miami County by the Hamilton Brothers of nearby Piqua. Its 224 feet place it among Ohio's longest covered bridges ...

Pat Garrett Murder Site

Pat Garrett, the Lincoln County Sheriff who shot and killed William “Billy the Kid” Bonney at Fort Stanton in 1881, was himself murdered at a remote site nearby on February 29, 1908. Wayne Brazel, a local cowboy, confessed to shooting ...

Railroads: Union Pacific & Burlington Northern

Railroads played a key role in the development of the Heritage Highway corridor. Trains brought settlers and goods west to the new towns and took farm products back to market. As times have changed and transportation has evolved, many ...

Homesteading: The Cry was Free Land!!!

The Homestead Act of 1862 was one of the most significant and enduring events in the westward expansion of the United States. By granting 160 acres of free land to claimants, it allowed nearly any man or woman the chance ...

Fork Union Military Academy

Founded in 1898 by Dr. William E. Hatcher with the assistance of Charles G. Snead, Fork Union Academy established military training as part of the curriculum in 1902. It served as a coeducational school until 1909, when the trustees transformed ...

Doña Ana County Courthouse

County Seat

Las Cruces, New Mexico

Built 1937

Marker is on West Lohman Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bradford Fire of 1920

On the evening of August 3, 1920, at 10:30, two men hurrying home after working at the local Railway Y.M.C.A. discovered smoke and flames at the D. Arnold & Sons Lumber Company. Bradford firemen, with the help of area ...

Second Brigade

Second Battle of Manassas

August 30, 1862

3:15 p.m.

Jackson's Division (Starke), Left Wing (Jackson)

Army of Northern Virginia, CSA

Second Brigade

Col. Bradley T. Johnson

21st Virginia 48th Virginia

42nd Virginia 1st Virginia Battalion

"We were fighting now as I never saw it done, we behind the railroad ...

Tale of Ensign James Liggett / Major Adam Charles Muir, 41st Reg

[Front Side of Marker]: "Tale of Ensign James Liggett"

After American militia troops forcibly ended the 1812 siege of Fort Wayne, General James Winchester's Army of the Northwest marched down the north side of the Miami [Maumee] River to stop or ...