Many Meetings During the Revolutionary War

This tablet commemorates the site where were held many meetings during the Revolutionary War and where was assembled on Nov. 1, 1784 the Continental Congress of the several confederated states.

Here the Marquis de Lafayette took final farewell of Congress December ...

The Waukesha Freeman

The first issue of the Waukesha Freeman was published on March 29, 1859. The paper was founded by Martin Cullaton to provide a voice for the Abolitionist movement.

H.M. Youmans became owner, publisher and editor in 1874, continuing in those roles ...

The Farmington Canal

The Farmington Canal

The 56-mile Farmington Canal was Connecticut's super-highway of the 1830s and 1840s. Begun in 1825, the canal was the largest engineering project ever attempted in New England. Inspired by the commercial success of the Erie Canal, ...

The Union Land Company and the Case Family / The Olentangy River

The Union Land Company and the Case Family

Congress established the United States Military District in 1796 by an act to provide bounty land for Revolutionary War officers and soldiers. District lands consisted of 2.6 million acres in twelve Ohio counties, ...

The Maryland Campaign of 1862

"...we are driven to protect our own country by transferring the seat of war to that of an enemy who pursues us with a relentless and apparently aimless hostility."

President Jefferson Davis

September 7, 1862

"The present seems to be the most propitious ...

The Tonopah Mining Boom

In 1900. Jim Butler stopped at a site known as Tonapah, or Little Water, in the Western Shoshone language. Taking a few rock samples, he discovered a mine that led to one of the most important mineral finds of the ...

President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home

President Lincoln and his family lived in this country home for over a quarter of his presidency. Escorted by his cavalry guard, Lincoln rode to the White House every morning either on horseback or by carriage, and returned here each ...

The Tehachapi Museum

City of Tehachapi

Respecting Our Past – Planning Our Future

The Tehachapi Museum

Dedicated On May 22, 2010

Built in 1931 in the Art Deco style, this building originally housed the Kern County Library and was later given to the City. The Tehachapi Heritage ...

Mt. Bethel Meeting House

Historic Baptist church and Revolutionary War burial grounds built in 1761 on the Old Quibbletown Gap Road. Chartered in 1767. Moved to the present location in 1785. One of the oldest surviving Baptist buildings in New Jersey.

A state and national ...

The Flying Dutchmen

The Battle of Chancellorsville

The target of Jackson's attack was General Oliver O. Howard's Eleventh Corps, which extended for more than a mile along the Orange Turnpike. The Eleventh Corps was relatively new to the Army of the Potomac. Its 11,000 ...