The Federal Building & Early Mail Service

This Federal Post Office Building was built in 1910 at a cost of $90,000. The property was purchased from the Thornton estate for $10,000. The Neo-Classical design style was often used by governmental architects of the Treasury Department during the ...

The Birthplace Home of Earl "Curly" Lambeau

Built in 1868, this example of mid-19th century architecture is one of the oldest homes on its original foundation with its original exterior.

On April 9, 1898, two residents of this home, Marcel and Mary Lambeau, gave birth to their first ...

Yellow Fever Epidemic 1878 / The 31 Victims of Yellow Fever Who

Side AYellow Fever Epidemic

1878

Taking 31 Lives in Tuscumbia

Citizen's Relief Committee:

F.H. Aydlett, H.M. Finley, J.J. Davis, James Jackson, Chm.

J.W. Rand Jr., F.A. Ross, J.N. Sampson, Sec. and C. A. Womble.

This committee, together with volunteers of both white and black~~ assisted ...

The Beacon Community

Side 1:

The Beacon Community was the center of Decatur’s African American community until its demolition by the Urban Renewal programs of the mid-1960s. Bounded by N. McDonough Street on the east, W. Trinity Place on the north, Water Street on ...

The 1st Rhode Island Regiment and the Battle of Rhode Island

The 1st Rhode Island Regiment of the Continental Line

1775 – 1783

The war for American Independence was a long and arduous struggle that demanded much of the American people. Rhode Island responded to those demands with patriotic fervor, enduring the ...

The Davis Mill

Built in 1864 by

William A. Davis First stone mill with carding machine in this vicinity. A sawmill and gin were added in 1866. French burrs, Leffel water wheel and silk bolt brought from Galveston by wagon in 1871. Made flour ...

The Old Spanish Trail – Armijo's Route

On January 8, 1830, the first pack train to pass from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Los Angles crossed Las Vegas Valley. Antonio Armijo, a merchant in Santa Fe, commanded the train and roughly sixty men. The successful completion of ...

Three Sisters: Close Knit Communities of the Laurel Area.

Other enclaves of African American ironworkers in the Laurel area include Bacontown and the Grove. Bacontown was named for Maria Bacon, a former slave freed in 1860. In 1880, the plot of land she inherited from Achsah Dorsey, her former ...

Iron Production: Maryland's Industrial Past - The Iron Making Pr

Iron Production: Maryland’s Industrial Past

Maryland’s early economy and identity were based on slave-based agriculture. However, slaves were also employed in manufacturing iron, one of the first non-agricultural industries. Seeing how other colonies were successful in producing iron, the Maryland Legislature ...

The Freedom Trail

Neighborhood of Revolution

“Paul Revere . . . started on a ride which, in a way has never ended.” - Esther Forbes, author of the classic study, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In

In the course of just two ...