Mizzen Mast – H.M.S. Algerine

Presented to the City of Victoria

by the

Maritime Museum of British Columbia

28th July, 1966

H.M.S. Algerine was the last ship of the Royal Navy to be based in Esquimalt, 1908-1914. Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, she served as Depot Ship at ...

Prospect A.M.E. Church

The roots of African-American Methodism in this community can be traced to the organization of a black “class” within the local Methodist society in the 1790’s. By the 1830’s a group of residents had affiliated themselves with Bishop Richard Allen’s ...

Pine Hill A.M.E. Church / Pine Hill Rosenwald School

Pine Hill A.M.E. Church

This church, founded in 1876, was in Marion County before Dillon County was created in 1910. At first on S.C. Hwy. 34, the church acquired this site in 1891 when Alfred Franklin Page (1863-1929) and his wife ...

Star Hill A.M.E. Church

By the end of the 18th century this area was home to a large number of African Americans, many of them freed slaves. Their settlement was largely due to the efforts of local Quakers. A congregation of the African Methodist ...

Horace M. Albright

Albright's contributions to the National Park Service can hardly be overstated. While working with the agency's first director, Stephen Mather, in the early years of the National Park Service, Horace Albright played a decisive role in guiding the agency. Upon ...

Dickerson Chapel A.M.E. Church

On May 2, 1868, the African Methodist

Episcopal Church purchased land west

of Millsboro from John M. Burton and

first church building was soon built.

In 1885, the Church officially changed

its name to Dickersons Chapel to honor

Bishop William ...

75mm. Howitzer

Captured with its gun crew 16th August 1944 by

the 8th Naval Beach Battallion and the 540th Army

Engineers at St. Raphael on the French Riveria.

This howitzer, set in a strong casemated position at the left flank of one of the assault ...

Madison Lodge No. 23 F. & A.M.

1852 [Logo] 2002

Madison Lodge #23 was established under dispensation from the Grand Lodge of California on May 4th 1852. Its permanent charter was issued on May 5th 1853. Madison Lodge held its first two meetings at the old Columbus ...

Friendship A.M.E. Church

(Front text)

This church, founded during Reconstruction, has been at the same site since 1890. The first sanctuary serving this congregation was located on Hibben Street and built on a lot leased by the Town of Mount Pleasant in 1877. ...

Frederick Davis Patterson, M.D. / Patterson Hospital

Side 1:

Frederick Davis Patterson, M.D.

April 16, 1867 – Dec.31, 1930

Dr. Fred Patterson was born in Stewart Co., Ga., attended South Georgia Agriculture College, Cuthbert, graduated Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1890. He practiced in Lumpkin four years before moving to ...