Walter and Mae Simms House

Austin architect Roger Q. Small designed this unique 1935 home for Walter and Mae (Moore) Simms, who established Simms Fish Market in 1915 and delivered gulf coast seafood to hotels and restaurants throughout central Texas for nearly forty years. The ...

Site of First Church Building in Cuthbert, Georgia

The first church building in Cuthbert was erected on this site in 1839. Deacons Stephen Lundy and Allen Moye bought this lot from Jane Reynolds in 1837. The congregation of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, constituted in 1831, moved from their ...

Timothy Ford's House

circa 1800

Timothy Ford, a native of Morristown, New Jersey, Princeton educated attorney who as a youth served in the American Revolution, built this fine Charleston single house in the Adamesque style. Ford entertained the Marquis de Lafayette here on ...

In Their Springfield Prime

1854 marked Lincoln's public return to politics following a five-year hiatus. That year Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois pushed the "Kansas-Nebraska Act" through the U.S. Congress, overturning the 1820 Missouri Compromise line. Fearing the spread of slavery to western ...

Linotype Model 31

Line-Casting Machine

The Linotype was introduced in Baltimore in 1883 by Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German-born inventor. By replacing hand-set type with machine-set type, the speed of composition was vastly increased by this important advance in printing.

This machine saw more than a ...

Owen County (Indiana) War Memorial

[Front Plaque]

In Grateful Recognition

of the

Patriotic Service Rendered by

The Men and Women of Owen County

During the World War

1917 - 1918

[Back Plaque]

This tablet is erected

in memory of these men of

Owen County

who gave their lives

in the World War

1914 - 1918

Edward C. Call • ...

Calumet and Arizona Mining Company Office Building

The Calumet and Arizona Mining Company developed a new town site in this area in 1905 to ensure the continued success of its mining interests. Using the "City Beautiful" model, the new town site – Warren – provided affordable housing. ...

Historic Fort Wadsworth

Since 1636

As its discoverer in 1574, Verrazzano observed the surrounding terrain and called it Agoleme. Upon this high ground Lenape Indians gazed down on Hudson’s Half Moon as it sailed through the Narrows in 1609. In 1636, the Dutch ...

Harth-Middleton House

c. 1797

John Harth, planter and lumber merchant, built this handsome house at his lumber yards, then at the end of the south bay, in 1797. In 1816, he sold the house to Henry Augustus Middleton, who enlarged it, and ...

Middlebury Veterans Memorial

Middlebury Honors Those Who Have Served

In The Wars Of Their Country

French – Indian War

Abner Munson

Revolutionary War

David Abbott, Benjamin Bemont, Aaron Benedict, Enos Benham, Samuel Benham, Edward Blackman, Michael Bowers, Asahel Bronson, Elijah Bronson, Isaac Bronson, Andrew Clark, Daniel Clark, ...