T'was The Night Before Christmas

"T'was the night before Christmas when all thro' the house,

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The Stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in ...

The Home of Blue Jacket

This Marks the Site of

The Home of

Blue Jacket

Celebrated Chief of the

Shawonoe Indians

Marker is on South Detroit Street north of West Auburn Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

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The Law and Lodging / Whiskey Mayhem

The Law and Lodging

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During his years traveling the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Abraham Lincoln was the overnight guest of many DeWitt County residents.

As a frontier lawyer, he spent several months per year away from home while making his legal rounds. ...

Cedar Creek The 8th Vermont Vol's

Genl. Stephen Thomas

Commanding Brigade

Advanced across the Pike

The morning of Oct. 19, 1864.

Engaged the enemy near

and beyond this point,

and before sunrise lost

in killed and wounded 110 men.

Three color bearers were shot down

and 13 out of 16 commissioned officers.

Whole number ...

The Campanario

Mission San Diego de Alcala

The Campanario is 46 feet high and holds the Mission bells. The crown-topped bell on the lower right is named Ava Maria Purisima – Immaculate Mary. It weighs 805 pounds and was cast in 1802. A ...

Living & Learning In The Mountains

Three local citizens, W. M. Loggans, B. B. Heyward and W. P. Furr, donated 300 acres of prime farm land to entice location of the Ninth District School of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, a boarding high school, on this site. ...

The Medal of Honor

United States Air Force

Base

"Awarded for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity of the risk of life, above and beyond the call of duty in action involving actual conflict with an opposing armed force"

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United States Air Force

Medal of Honor Recipients

World War I

2nd ...

The Last Days of Fort Mulligan

In December of 1863, Colonel James Mulligan returned to

New Creek and Colonel Joseph Thoburn took command of the

1,785 Union soldiers at Petersburg. Confederate Major General

Fitzhugh Lee’s forces began to move on Petersburg on January 3rd, with intentions of capturing Colonel ...

The Stoneman Raid

Closing in on Atlanta in July, 1864, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, USA, found its vast fortifications “too strong to assault and too extensive to invest.” To force an evacuation, he sent Maj. Gen. George Stoneman’s cavalry [US] (2112 men ...

The Crawford Family

For whom the Notch is named, included Abel and his sons, Thomas J. and Ethan Allen. They established the first regional hotels and pioneered in opening the White Mountain area to the public. Ethan and his wife, Lucy Howe Crawford, ...