Battery Heights

Second Battle of Manassas

As General Rufus King's Union division marched eastward along the Warrenton Turnpike (U.S. Route 29 today), they came under fire from Confederate artillery on the distant ridge. Captain Joseph Campbell's Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery wheeled off ...

Apples and Barrels

Via Cuba's second mural depicts one of the town's most fascinating eras, 1895-1920. During that brief period, the apple was king. By 1900, Cuba was the largest producer, processor, and distributor of applies in the state of Missouri. Closely related ...

American Legion Post 340 Veterans Memorial

In Memory Of Those Who Served

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 7) and Old Mill Pond Road, on the left when traveling north on Main Street.

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Amelia

This mural chronicle a Sept 4, 1928 account in the Muskogee Times-Democrat. Amelia Earhart left Scott Field in Belleville, Illinois in her Avro plane, with a destination of Muskogee, in route to Los Angeles. She later forced down outside of ...

Sheffield World War II Monument

In Memory Of

The Citizens of Sheffield

Who So Loyally Served

In the World War

1941 - 1945

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 7) and Miller Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Main Street.

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World War II Memorial Trees

These Trees

Have Been Dedicated to the

Memory of Our Men of the

Town of Sheffield, Who Gave

Their Lives in World War II

Lieut Herbert W. Small • A/C Paul C. Hogan • Sgt. Robert A. Goeway Jr. • Milton C. McGarry S 2/C ...

Kearney: From the Beginning

Long before early French explorers named it the Platte River, or "flat waters," this heartland oasis was a crossroads. Migratory birds, abundant wildlife and Native Americans had been in residence for centuries when the confluence of the Oregon and Mormon ...

Uncle Sam Monument

[Front]

*Uncle Sam*

Wilson

1766 1854 of Troy - New York

Born in Arlington - Mass

[Right]

Sam Wilson- One of

the Prime Movers For

Incorporation of * Troy as Village - 1794

City - 1816 *

[Left]

U.S. ...

Centennial of Hattiesburg

[West Side]

Formerly Choctaw Territory and later claimed by France, Britain, Spain and United States, this area entered by settlers in early 1800s and known as Ewin Forks, later Gordonville. Chosen as rail center by Captain William H. Hardy in 1880 ...

George Washington Hitt

1913-1958

“An unforgettable personality whose courage shone with such crystal brilliance as to brighten the world about him and uplift the spirits of those even more fortunate, but not fashioned of such heroic fibre. His is a name to remember when ...