Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

No Asylum from War

When the Civil War began in 1861, the one-story wing on the far left of the building in front of you was all that stood here at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. The foundation of the main building ...

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial

This Memorial was established by the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund, as directed by an Act of the United States Congress.

The authorizing law was sponsored by U.S. Representative Mario Biaggi

and U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell, and was signed ...

ATSF Locomotive No. 3416

Donated to the City of Great Bend this 18th day of Sept., 1956 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.

History

Purchased in July 1919 from Baldwin Locomotive Works at Eddystone, Pennsylvania at a cost of $69,000. Used in passenger ...

Cathedral of the Plains

St. Fidelis Church

Erected between 1908 and 1911 by German and German Russian Catholics, this native limestone edifice is one of the largest buildings on the Great Plains, its twin towers soar 141 feet above its 220 feet by 79 feet ...

Queponco Railway Station

Newark, Maryland

Placed on the National Register of Historic Places 1996

Marker is on Patey Woods Road 0.1 miles west of Newark Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort Hays State University War Memorial

"The people who know war, those who have experienced it...I believe are the most earnest advocates of peace in the world."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

This memorial is dedicated to those of the Fort Hays State University family who have fought and ...

Exodus 1947: "The ship That Launched a Nation"

Near this spot, the Baltimore steamer President Warfield began her epic voyage into history. Built in 1928 as the flagship of the Old Bay Line, she ran nightly cruises between Baltimore and Norfolk. In 1943 she was given to Britain ...

The Great Zig Zag

Lithgow

A railway zig zag is a series of reversing ramps used to avoid very steep grades. John Whitton, Engineer in Chief NSW Government Railways 1856-90, chose this as the economical method for the descent from Clarence to Lithgow. Built during ...

The Batty Mine Location

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In memory of the heritage of

John & Ann (Sneath) Batty

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Immigrants of England 1844

Nyesville — Circa 1866

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Owners and Operators of

The Batty Mine this Location

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John & Ann Batty

Parents of: Charlie

Grandparents ...

In memory of Jeff Allen and Shane Heath

In memory of

Jeff Allen and Shane Heath,

Indianola Helitack Crew members,

lost in the Cramer Fire near here on

July 22, 2003.

This will be a lasting place of remembrance and gratitude for their lives and service, a place for wildland firefighters to reflect ...