Containing Communism - The Berlin and Cuban Crises and Vietnam

We Answered the Call

President Harry S. Truman established a policy of containing Communism that was followed by succeeding presidents until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Beatrice's residents served in Germany, protected the U.S. borders, and fought in ...

Westville Soldiers' Memorial

Soldiers Memorial

A.D. 1915

[ left plaque ]

Erected By The

Westville Soldiers' Memorial

Association

To Commemorate Those Who Enlisted

From This Place In The

War of 1861 – 1865

Wm. H. Alden • Charles S. Alling • Cosmo F. Alling • Theo. R. Andrews • Elbert W. Ball ...

Frederica - The Fort

" In the morning, Mr. Oglethorpe began

to mark out a fort with four bastions, and

taught the men how to dig the ditch, and

raise and turf the rampart."

Francis Moore

1736

A Voyage to Georgia

General Oglethorpe chose this site for

Frederica's fort. ...

The Marsh Rainbow Arch Bridge

The City of Chippewa Falls was organized around two moving bodies of water, the Chippewa River and its tributary Duncan Creek. Bridges soon became necessary with rapid expansion of the transportation system in the late 19th and early 20th century. ...

Freedom Fighters

We Answered the Call

The United States Congress officially ended the draft in September 28, 1971. Since then, volunteer armed forces have been called to protect freedom throughout the world.

In 2001, the Beatrice National Guard was deployed to Kuwait with the ...

Sumterville Academy

This site of one acre was given in

1837 for use for a public school by

Col. John Blount Miller

(1782-1851)

Lieutenant-Colonel in the War of 1812,

a public-spirited citizen and advocate of

education; attorney, orator, writer, founder

of the Sumterville ...

Frederica - Military Road

" The inhabitants of the town went

out on the 25th [September 1738] with

the General and cut a road through

the woods down to the soldiers fort..."

Gentleman's Magazine

January 1739

In front of you lies the trace of the historic

Military Road - a ...

Athens High and Industrial School

Established in 1916-1917 and accredited in 1922, Athens High and Industrial School (AHIS) was Georgia’s first four-year public high school for African-American students. Originally known as Reese Street School, founded in 1914, AHIS offered a full curriculum of classes including ...

Site of First Randolph County Courthouse

The area of this square marks the site of the first and second courthouses of Randolph County. The first, a two-story frame building, was erected in 1836. It was replaced in 1842 by a brick structure with entrances facing in ...

Landing Place of First Settlers

1630 - 1930

Landing place on River Parker of the men and women who settled in Newbury between 1635 and 1650.

Marker is on High Road (Alternate Massachusetts Route 1), on the left.

Courtesy hmdb.org