Steamboats Give Way to the New Bay Bridge

"There was a wharf where the steamboats came in. Right down at the foot of Prince George Street...The Tolchester boat used to come in and they'd pick up one thing or another, an dbring them all up Prince George Street. ...

Victims of the Boston Massacre

The remains of

Samuel Gray

Samuel Maverick

James Caldwell

Crispus Attucks

and

Patrick Carr

Victims of the Boston Massacre,

March 5th, 1770,

were here interred by order of the

Town of Boston.

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Here also lies buried the body of

Christopher Snider

Aged 12 years,

Killed February 22nd, 1770

The innocent victim of the

struggles between the ...

The James Gang

In this building, then a combination saloon and grocery, W.W. Earthman, magistrate and ex-constable of Davidson County, on March 25, 1881, arrested Bill Ryan, alias Tom Hill, ruthless and indiscreet member of the gang, members of which were living in ...

"The sight of blood never again affected me"

With the departure of the two armies following the battle, the burden of caring for the wounded fell largely on the shoulders of the local civilians. Although much attention has been paid to the United States Sanitary Commission and the ...

The Gorgas-Manly Historic District

includes

The Gorgas House (1829)

First structure built on the original campus

The Round House (1860)

Used by cadets on guard duty, and another of the four buildings to survive the fires set by Federal troops in 1865.

Woods Hall (1868)

First building constructed after the ...

The Memorial Church of the Prince of Peace

Episcopal

The first Episcopal services in Gettysburg were held at the courthouse in 1867. The first church building of the parish was built on Stevens St. in 1876.

Conceived as a memorial to the dead of both sides in the Civil War, ...

The Mississippi Brigade

Brig. Gen. W. S. Featherston ~ Loring’s div. It consisted of the 40th, 31st, 22d, 3d & 33d regts., (deployment sequence W. to E.) Stigler’s sharpshooters in skirmish line. Brigade was on extreme rt. of Stewart’s A.C., joining Hardee’s A.C. ...

Sisters Missionary Servants Of The Most Blessed Trinity

On January 25, 1925 the Sisters acquired the 25 - bed Gadsden General Hospital on Chestnut Street and renamed it Holy Name of Jesus Hospital. The Hospital grew under the leadership of the Founders, Father Thomas A. Judge, C. M. ...

Gadsden Municipal Amphitheatre

(Legion Park Bowl)

Built of local sandstone in 1935 on land obtained from the American Legion Post No. 5 this municipal amphitheatre seating about 1600 was constructed for staging theatrical and sporting events. Gadsden architect Paul W. Hofferbert designed the open-air ...

Topeka Chapter, The Military Order of the World Wars

Is hereby organized and instituted as a chapter of the Order to be known as the Topeka Chapter of the Military Order of the World War. Chartered this 30th day of August in the Year of our Lord One Thousand ...