Mutual Life Building

1897

This modified Romanesque Revival building of brick and terra cotta complements the nearby Pioneer Building. It has been home to such varied businesses as a speakeasy (1920s), elegant cigar store (1930s), and ice cream parlor. Site of Henry Yesler’s ...

District Court Tree

In 1837 this oak sheltered Texas jurors. Courthouse was unfinished because logs coming down-river for building had swept past in strong current. R. M. Williamson, presiding, was called "Three-legged Willie" due to appearance: he had good leg, crippled leg, and ...

Machinery from early East Texas Logging Railroads

Steam locomotive and tender No. 3 were bought 1908 by Carter-Kelley Lumber Co., for use in building a sawmill at Manning(about 18 mi. south); then in railroad building, logging, and passenger and freight hauling schedules.

The 1906 wood-burning steam loader ...

The Road to Battle

See that flat depression in the ground? That’s the surviving imprint of the Great Wagon Road, a route used by thousands of settlers from the 1740s to the early 1800s.

The road began in Philadelphia, carrying Quakers, Germans, Scots-Irish and Moravians ...

22nd Alabama Infantry - 1st Louisiana Infantry

Gladden's Brigade - Withers' Division - Bragg's Corps

C.S.

Army of the Mississippi.

22d Alabama, 1st Louisiana,

Gladden's (1st) Brigade, Withers' (2d) Division,

Bragg's Corps.

These regiments, about 300 men, were engaged here Monday April 7, 1862 until about 10 A.M.

Marker is on State Highway 22 ...

6th and 9th Tennessee Infantry

Stephens' Brigade - Cheatham's Division - Polk's Corps

C.S.

Army of the Mississippi.

6th and 9th Tennessee Infantry,

Stephens' 2d Brig., Cheatham's 2d Div,

Polk's Corps.

The 6th Tennessee and six companies of the 9th Tennessee were engaged here Monday April 7, 1862.

Marker can be ...

Natives, Explorers, Tobacco and Buccaneers

The Early History of Gloucester Point

“I made a draughte of our river…by us discovered.” Robert Tyndall to Henry, Prince of Wales

In 1600, this tidewater land was part of a vast American Indian empire ruled by the Powhatan nation. English mariner ...

Frontier Violence During the War of 1812

Front

Tensions between Native Americans and Euro-American settlers remained high on the Ohio frontier during the War of 1812. Grievances mounted rapidly following the removal of the Greentown Delawares to Piqua in the late summer of 1812. On September 10, British-allied ...

"Old Dan Tucker"

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Rev. Daniel Tucker owned a large plantation on the Savannah River and is buried near his old homesite, “Point Lookout,” six miles from here. Born in Virginia, February 14, 1744, Daniel Tucker came here to take up ...

8-10 Tradd Street The Lamboll Double Tenement

circa 1726

rebuilt 1781

The masonary structure of this double residence was constructed by Charleston merchant Thomas Lamboll

circa 1726. The date of construction is base on surviving land grants showing the establishment of common use alleys on either side ...