The Yard

We were all working there for one purpose: to get this country out of trouble. Everyone had one thing in mind: to produce and to win.

Bill Walton

Worker at New England Shipbuilding Corp.

Before there could be any British Ocean class or ...

Margaret Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell

(1902-2004)

Margaret Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell was born to a Moravian family in North Carolina, where her upbringing and education led her to devote her life to seeking educational opportunities for others. She served as dean of Staunton's Mary Baldwin College and ...

Tinner Hill

An early rural branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded here on Tinner Hill. In 1915, the Town of Falls Church proposed an ordinance to segregate black and white residential sections. Local African ...

Stratford Junior High School

On February 2, 1959, Stratford Jr. High became the first racially integrated school in Virginia. The long battle to integrate Virginia's public schools followed the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which held that racially ...

The Forsyth County Men

Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice In The World War

1917-1918

In Grateful Remembrance of

The Forsyth County Men

Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice

In The World War

Clinton A. Anderson

William M. Bazemore

Jim Bennett

Clyde Bolling

Frank J. Brewer

Isaac L. Brown

Sam Chambers

James R. Cook

Horace B. Connelly

James Cottingham

Herbert Crighton

Samuel Crews

Germie ...

Great Buffalo Trace

On July 16th, 1773, James McAfee, George McAfee, Robert McAfee, James McCoun, Jr., Samuel Adams, and Hancock Taylor, following the Buffalo Trace from Big Bone Lick, crossed the Kentucky River at this point and made the first survey upon it. ...

Site of Green Academy

Chartered in 1812. Leading educational Institution. Long prominent in training leaders of North Alabama. Occupied by Federal troops, 1862. Building burned, 1864. Site of city schools since 1882. Location used only for school purposes. Alabama Historical Association 1955

Marker is on ...

Wilbur G. Grant Reservoir of Chester Metropolitan District

Dedicated by resolution of the Commission in recognition of the work and service of Senator Wilbur G. Grant in making possible this Reservoir and water system, for the people of Chester County.

E.J. Fowler, Chairman; Robert H. King, Secretary; W.E. ...

Sarah Fairfield Hamilton, 1831-1909

Saco Main Street Museum Walk

Sarah Fairfield Hamilton was a founder of the local chapter of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, and led that organization to create Saco's first kindergarten, a nursery for mill workers' children, summer park programs and ...

Defending Richmond

"The fortifications constructed by the Confederate army in this vicinity & about Richmond are miles in extent & I must add that they are as strong, if not the strongestin the world." - Julian Scott, Union Army Veteran May 1865

From ...