Commemorating the Treaty of Holston

signed by Gov. Wm. Blount and forty one Cherokee Chiefs and Warriors, on the site of the home of Gov. Blount, corner of Hill Ave. and State Street, Knoxville Tenn.

July 2, 1791

Marker can be reached from West Main Street west ...

Grand Army of the Republic Memorial

Tombstone, Arizona

Dedicated May 30, 1887

In Memory of

the Comrades of

Burnside Post

G.A.R.

Marker can be reached from West Allen Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

"Men who don't often weep wept then"

Prelude to Gettysburg

(Front):

Faced with the impossible task of defending an essentially unarmed city against the six thousand battle hardened troops of General Jubal Early, the citizens of York met with the Confederates and negotiated surrender, in and act which was ...

The Ehle Family and the Montezuma Hotel

Joseph and Margaret Ehle arrived in Prescott, Arizona Territory, on July 13, 1864 with their children, John Henry, Mary Jane, Amy E., Olive Joan, Sarah F. and Margaret Viola. Mr. Ehle helped to build the log Governor's Mansion (now part ...

The Villa Marine

The Villa Marine Hotel was erected in 1912 by W.L. Sweet. Its construction provided a sorely needed boost for Melbourne Beach as a vacation resort, for other well known resorts north and south were by this time outstripping this community ...

The Great Swamp Fight

19 December 1675

Attacked

within their fort upon this island

the Narragansett Indians

made their last stand

in King Philip's War and

were crushed by the united forces

of the Massachusetts Connecticut

and Plymouth Colonies

in the

“Great Swamp Fight”

Sunday 19 December 1675

This record was

placed by the Rhode Island Society

of ...

The Swamp Angel

The first gun an eight inch Parrott Rifle or 200 pounder, fired from the Marsh Battery, on Morris Island, S.C. at the City of Charleston, 7,000 yards distance. Weight of gun 16,500 pounds, weight of charge of powder 16 pounds, ...

The Remarkable Plummer Family

From Riversdale to Mount Rose

Near this spot at Ingraham Street and 46th Avenue in the town of Edmonston, Adam Francis Plummer a former slave at Riversdale, moved his family to the house he built, Mount Rose, in 1870. The ten ...

The Crocheron Columns

The Crocherons were from Staten Island, New York. Richard Conner Crocheron arrived in town about 1837 to help run the family store.

He traveled north for his bride in 1843 after building her this brick home. The back wall adjoined the ...

Orders Road School / The Orders Family

Side A:

Orders Road SchoolEducational standards for rural children did not exist during the early 1800s, but by the 1870s most states had enacted compulsory education laws. In rural areas, township school districts built schools like this one and assessed local ...