The Battle of Richmond

August 29-30, 1862

In the summer of 1862 the Confederacy took the offensive

Robert E. Lee's army advanced into Maryland. Sterling Price and Earl Van Dorn's armies marched toward Corinth, Mississippi. Braxton Bragg and Kirby Smith moved out of Tennessee and into ...

Liberation of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg

Sixty years after the liberation of the Grand-Duchy of

Luxembourg by American troops, this plaque was unveiled

by Their Royal Highnesses, Grand Duke Henri and

Grand Duchess Maria Teresa on September 13, 2004,

as a token ...

The Merrimac Ferry

Merrimac’s first permanent settler, Chester Mattson, obtained a territorial charter in 1848 to provide ferry service across the Wisconsin River. The State Legislature of 1851 authorized a road, subsequently to become State Trunk Highway 113, to con­nect settlements at Madison ...

The Wayside Home

This boulder is placed by

The Wayside Home Chapter

United Daughters of the Confederacy

of Jenkins County, Georgia and

The Margaret Jones Chapter

United Daughters of the Confederacy

of Burke County, Georgia

to perpetuate the name of

The Wayside Home

and as a memorial to the noble woman

who served ...

The Wisconsin Chair Company Fire

One of the largest manufacturers of chairs in the United States, the Wisconsin Chair Company of Port Washington was founded by Fred A. Dennett and John M. Bostwick in 1888. After acquiring the important “MacLean Swing Rocker” patent in 1891, ...

Crossing the Ocmulgee

On the morning of Nov. 18, 1864, the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of General Sherman’s army [US] moved from its bivouacs in and near Jackson toward Planters’ Factory (Ocmulgee Mills), on the Ocmulgee River at Seven Islands (9 ...

The British Army

British commander, Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton, ordered a detachment of cavalry forward to scatter the American skirmishers. The green-uniformed British Legion - Americans loyal to the king - awaited the order to advance.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Battle of Harmar's Ford

To the Memory of

Major John Wyllys

And His Brave Soldiers Who

Were Killed Near this Spot

In The Battle of

Harmar's Ford

Oct. 22, 1790

With the Indians Under

Chief Little Turtle

Marker is at the intersection of Edgewater Avenue and Dearborn Street, on the left when traveling ...

First Power Mill for the Manufacture of Knit Fabrics

First Power Mill

- for the -

Manufacture of Knit Fabrics

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Erected in 1843, By Egberts & Bailey

Inventors of the Power Knitting

Machine in 1832.

· · · · ·

Hand operated knitting machines were

invented by ...

The Frederick G. Exner Memorial Windmill

Erected February 17, 2000

Donated by Frederick G. Exner to the El Monte Historical Society

Historical Artifact to Compliment the Osmund House Facility

This "The Aermotor Company" windmill was first erected in Gore, North Dakota, in April 1916, and served ...