Unearthing Florida: Fort Barrancas

In 1862, Fort Barrancas in Pensacola was an important base of operations for Union movements into Florida and Alabama, but it was not always controlled by the North.

Just days before Florida joined the Confederacy, state troops seized two of ...

Unearthing Florida: Salt Works

During the Civil War, salt production in Florida was vital to keeping the Confederacy supplied with long-lasting sources of perishable food, such as meat and fish.

The Union strategy of cutting off supplies from the north and blockading southern ports ...

Unearthing Florida: Camp Walton

At the start of the Civil War, Confederate Florida looked to local militias to begin the difficult task of raising an army.

Most militias were made up of men from different social orders in the community- farmers, bricklayers, teachers, fisherman, lawyers ...

Forest Home Hills Cemetery

Most would call the 1840's simpler times. But for Milwaukee's early settlers, the times called for vitally important and lasting decisions.

Soon after the city was founded in 1846, civic leaders began searching for a place where area residents could count ...

Milwaukee County Historic Society

The Milwaukee County Historical Society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve and make available materials relating to the history of the Milwaukee community.

Through a broad range of activities, the Historical Society seeks to recognize and preserve our local ...

Charles Allis Art Museum

Designed by prominent Milwaukee architect Alexander Eschweiler for Charles Allis, the first president of Allis Chalmers, and his wife Sarah in 1911, this unique Tudor-style mansion and art collection was built with the sole purpose of bequeathing it to the ...

Abbott Row

Abbot Row is significant as an excellent preserved example of a Queen Anne Style row house block in Milwaukee. Among the other row house blocks that remain in Milwaukee, only a few can compare with Abbot Row in the excellence ...

National Historic Landmark - Ludlow Tent Colony Site

The Ludlow Tent Colony Site is significant in the history of industry for its association with a pivotal event in American history, a battle between striking coal miners and the National Guard that culminated in the destruction of the tent ...

National Historic Landmark - Lowry Ruin

A pueblo (c. 1060 AD) of 50 rooms, unusual in that it has a great kiva, a large ceremonial structure more commonly found in Arizona and New Mexico.

Information provided by the National Registry of Historic Places, a program of the ...

National Historic Landmark - Lindenmeier Site

The only extensive Folsom campsite yet known, providing a picture of the life of the Early Hunters (9000-3000 BC). The site is not open to the public, but information is available at www.ci.fort-collins.co.us.

Information provided by the National Registry of Historic ...