West Point in the American Revolution

The history of West Point in the American Revolution began in May 1775 when George Washington and other Americans recommended that the Hudson River be blocked to prevent the British from using the waterway to strike into the interior of ...

The Roller Coasters of Glen Echo Amusement Park

Roller Coasters.

The first primitive version of a roller coaster called the “Flying Mountain” emerged in Russia in the 1400’s. Americans encountered their first taste of a roller coaster-like thrill ride in 1827 when Josiah White constructed the Mauch Chunk Railway, ...

Southern Nevada Consolidated Telephone-Telegraph Company Buildin

This was the communications center of Goldfield from 1906 until 1963. From 1904 to 1920, Goldfield boomed sa a gold producing center. It was the largest (20,000+) city in Nevada during that period, having four railroads and other modern conveniences. ...

The Hermitage Mansion

Symbol of Democracy?

Elegant as it is, The Hermitage Mansion is also a prime example that, indeed, beauty sometimes does lie “in the eye of the beholder.” Andrew Jackson's visitors got their first good look at his home as they rounded ...

Civil War at The Hermitage

A President's Home in Wartime

Although no Civil War battles were fought here, the war touched Andrew Jackson's farm in other ways. Jackson had been a firm Unionist, putting down Nullification and its potential for civil war during his presidency. However, ...

The Hermitage Landscape

Frontier Farm to Cotton Plantation to Shrine

At first glance, The Hermitage Landscape may seem largely untouched by time. Look more closely, however, and discover the changes brought by over 200 years of labor...living...and a changing America.

White Americans and their slave ...

This Boulder Overlooks the Monocacy Battlefield

and is in memory

– of –

The Southern Solders

who fell in the battle

fought July 9, 1864

which resulted in

a Confederate victory

———

Erected July 9, 1914

by the

Fitzhugh Lee Chapter

United Daughters of the Confederacy

of Frederick, Maryland

Marker is on Urbana Pike (State Highway 355), on ...

The Rear Guard of General Herkimers Army

40 mile route taken by Gen. Herkimer Aug. 3-6, 1777 for the relief of Fort Stanwix. The Battle of Oriskany Aug. 6, between Herkimer's men and St. Leger with his Indians was the turning point of the Revolution.

The rear guard ...

The James J. Hill Reference Library

James J. Hill · (1838-1916)

The Hill Reference Library opened in 1921 as a living gift to the people of Saint Paul from railroad pioneer James J. Hill. By building the Great Northern Railway's transcontinental line to Seattle in 1893, Hill ...

The Harmonie Club

Detroit's oldest musical association, the Harmonie Society, was founded in 1849 by German immigrants who wished to meet and sing Lieder (German art songs). The society's first building, Harmonie Hall, was constructed in 1874 at the corner of Lafayette Avenue ...