The Infantry Board

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On 15 December 1919, War Department Orders established the Infantry Board as a development and testing laboratory with permanent station at Fort Benning, Georgia. The Board’s mission was to consider, with continuity of effort, the improvement of the Infantry.

The ...

Animal Problems

Cultural differences made it hard for citizens to agree on animal control policies. Well into the 1850's hogs freely roamed the streets, contesting the walkways with pedestrians, rooting up sidewalk planks, and creating smelly "how wallows" in front of stores. ...

Edenton United Methodist Church

On this site, from 1895 to 1983, stood the new Methodist Church of Edenton. It was a brick structure, a model of elegance and arrangement. The building replaced a wooden church that was located on Eden Street from 1857 to ...

Republican Wigwams

During the 1860 election Illinois Republicans held conventions in temporary wood and canvas structures dubbed "Wigwams."

"Wigwams" were reminiscent of the "Log Cabins" from the 1840 presidential campaign. They quickly became symbols of the young Republican party's vigor. Cheap, easy to ...

Niagara Frontier

Historic New York

The Niagara River between Lakes Ontario and Erie was the natural route to the interior of the continent. Following the arrival of French explorers in 1678, missionaries, traders, troops and settlers traveled by its waters. At the ...

Tyrell County

Established as a precinct of Albemarle by the Provincial Assembly of North Carolina meeting at Edenton, November 27, 1729. The 3rd year of the reign of King George II, and named for Sir John Tyrrell of Essex, England, one of ...

Pearidge

Saharah Plantation

1837-1840 Josiah Collins & Ebenezer Pettigrew purchased 500 acres of land, planted 40,000 mulberry trees and raised silk worms for the silk business.

S.S. Simmons Fishery circa 1835

Piney Grove Freewill Baptist Church circa 1895

Sound Post Office circa 1903

Piney Grove School ...

Ball's Grist-Mill

By 1809 John and George Ball had constructed a four-storey grist-mill here on Twenty Mile Creek. Equipped with two run of stones, the mill provided flour for British Troops during the War of 1812. It was expanded during the 1840's ...

Charles Mary Kubricht (b. 1946)

Alive-nesses: Proposal for Adaption, 2011

Alive-nesses : Proposal for Adaptation is informed by “dazzle” painting, an anti-range finding maritime camouflage technique used by the military between 1914 and 1945. The term “dazzle” was first used by A.H. Thayer in the ...

Rt. Rev. Alfred Augustin Watson

1818-1905

1st Bishop Diocese of East Carolina

Rector of Grace Episcopal Church

Plymouth, NC

St. Luke's Episcopal Church

Roper, NC 1844-1858

"The past is gone, the future is here."

Marker is on Madison Street south of East Water Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org