To Keep in Perpetual Remembrance the Name of Thomas Lee

President of his majesty's council and Commander in Chief of the colony and dominion of Virginia 1749 - 1750

A leader in the movement which resulted in the treaty of Lancaster 1744 by which Virginia was united with Maryland and Pennsylvania ...

The Braselton Family

In 1876 William H. Braselton, Sr. and his wife, Susan Hosch Braselton, established a 796-acre farm in western Jackson County . The Braseltons’ children, Henry, Green, John Oliver, Belle, and Lena , grew up working on the family farm, developing ...

The Miller Estate

Traces of history fade as the forest restores itself on Mt. Madonna

Henry Miller, “The Cattle King”

With only $6 in his pocket, German immigrant Henry Miller (birth name Heinrich Alfred Kreiser) stepped off the boat in San Francisco in 1850 with ...

The Main Gate

Edison National Historic Site, NJ

From 1887 to 1931 Thomas A. Edison, his laboratory employees, and invited guests entered the laboratory complex through this gate and arch. Guards and a tall picket fence (replaced by this chain-link fence in 1917) prevented ...

The Hostess House War and Veterans Memorial

[Several veterans memorials are located at the base of the flagstaff in front of the Hostess House.]

Side A:

1861 – 1865

McKinley Post

Number 187

Dept. of Calif. And Nev.

Grand Army

of the Republic

Veterans of the Civil War

Organized in Palo Alto

January 21st 1905

There are at ...

The Laboratory Complex

Edison National Historic Site, NJ

Building 5, the largest of the laboratory buildings, extends 250 feet along Lakeside Avenue. Henry Hudson Holly, architect of Thomas Edison’s home, planned this single, three-story building. But Holly’s building proved too small for Edison’s plans ...

The Black Maria

Edison National Historic Site, NJ

This replica movie studio symbolizes the early motion picture industry. Called the “revolving photograph building” when constructed in 1892-93, the studio was soon nicknamed the “Black Maria” by Edison’s employees - probably because it resembled police ...

The Torres Family

In the 1870-80s, brothers Cesario, Bernardo and Juan Torres were prominent west Texas citizens due to their irrigation work in the region. For work out west, Bernardo received land in Val Verde County at the Rio Grande - Pecos River ...

Home of the Miss America Pageant

Atlantic City Convention Center

"Home of the Miss America Pageant"

Presented to

The Miss American Pageant

in commemoration and deep appreciation

of their love affair with Atlantic City

for the past six decades

Dedicated January 21, 1987

by

the Atlantic City Convention Center Authority

and the citizens of Greater Atlantic ...

The "Tecumseh Stone"

Tradition has it that the Indian leader Tecumseh stood upon this stone to deliver a final address to the British at Amherstburg after the Battle of Lake Erie. Donated in 1939, it originally stood near the corner of Dalhousie and ...