The Siege of Fort Mifflin

November 10 to 15, 1777

Report from the British Side:

Journal of Captain John Montresor

November 10th: We expressed our batteries against Mud Island Fort, the whole consisting of two 12 pounders, six 24 pounders, guns and one 13 inch ...

Children in the Mill Village

Early textile mill owners alleviated labor shortages by recruiting entire families for employment. Offering homes as well as jobs, owners created villages of workers from which the mills could draw. Children - sometimes as young as seven - filled the ...

Site of First Ohio State Home Football Game / The Ohio State Uni

Site of First Ohio State Home Football Game

In the fall, life for many in Columbus revolves around Ohio State University football, from the first kickoff in September to the last play in November. O.S.U.'s first home game took place at ...

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Milwaukee’s State Normal School, which was founded in 1885 on the city’s west side to train teachers, relocated in 1909 to this building, Mitchell Hall, then located on 11–1/2 acres. Designed by Van Ryn and de Gelleke, expanded in 1912, ...

Fifth Division, Army of the Tennessee

Brig. Gen. William T. Sherman

U. S.

Fifth Division, Army of the Tennessee.

Brig. Gen. William T. Sherman, (w’d).

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1st Brigade, Col. John A. McDowell, 8th Iowa.

2d Brigade, Col. David Stuart, 55th Illinois, (w’d).

Col. T. Kilby Smith, 54th Ohio.

3d Brigade, Col. Jesse Hildebrand, ...

The Brumback Library

When local banker and businessman John Sanford Brumback left a large bequest to Van Wert County for the purpose of establishing a countywide library in 1897, such institutions did not yet exist, and Ohio had no legal provision for a ...

The Old Portage Rail Road Monument

(side 1)

This Monument

Was erected to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the opening of

The Old Portage Rail Road

March 18, 1834

A scale model of one of the inclined planes is in the Blair County Historical Museum, Altoona, PA.

This monument and the model ...

The La Grange Mine

This mine was originally known as the Oregon Mountain group of claims, first operated about 1862. In 1892 the mine was purchased by the La Grange Hydraulic Gold Mining Company which brought water from Stuart's Fork through 29 miles of ...

The Jewish Merchants of Edgefield

In the years following 1900, a number of immigrant Jewish merchants moved to Edgefield and actively participated in the commercial life of the Town for nearly a century. All of these merchants sold 'dry goods," meaning textiles, ready-to-ware clothing and ...

Hutto Lutheran Cemetery

In 1892, several Swedish immigrants who had settled in the Hutto area established the Swedish Lutheran Evangelical Church. In 1894 a tornado destroyed the first sanctuary, built by members on Short Street. After utilizing a second church building for several ...