Moore’s Ford Lynching

2.4 miles east, at Moore’s Ford Bridge on the Apalachee River, four African-Americans - George and Mae Murray Dorsey and Roger and Dorothy Dorsey Malcom (reportedly 7 months pregnant) - were brutally beaten and shot by an unmasked mob on ...

Nature's Pasture

Pemberton Park Historic Trail

If you had stood here 250 years ago, you would likely have seen cattle grazing in the tidal marshlands. The area between the mainland and Bell Island was known as "Handy's Meadow." Following Colonel Handy's death in ...

Georgetown

Site of town purchased May 9, 1791 from Abraham Harris, Rowland Bevins,and Joshua Pepper, and laid out for county-seat of Sussex County in accordance with Act of General Assembly of January 29, 1791. Named

Georgetown in honor of George Mitchell, ...

Thomas F. Price

Roman Catholic priest, pioneer Home Missionary of N.C. Co-founder of “Maryknoll Fathers,” a foreign mission society. Birthplace (1860) one block east.

Marker is on North 3rd Street (U.S. 74) just south of Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy ...

The Road to Salisbury Town

Pemberton Plantation Historic Trail

This road connected Pemberton Hall Plantation to two places of interest to Colonel Isaac Handy. It led to Handy Hall, the neighboring plantation which Isaac gave to his son George in 1750, and to Salisbury Town, which ...

Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie

1819 – 1894

[English]

Begbie practised [sic] law in England for fourteen years before his appointment in 1858 as the first judge of the mainland Colony of British Columbia. During the gold rush, he won the respect of lawless miners of the ...

The Urban Face of the Scioto River

The confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers is just northwest of North Bank Park, and the rivers were the major attraction for both Native American and white settlers. The river and its tributaries were the life-blood to the region ...

Battles in the Marmaton Valley

A State Divided: The Civil War in Missouri

Action at Dry Wood Creek, Sept. 2, 1861

Following the Southern victory at Wilson's Creek near Springfield (Aug. 10, 1861), Maj. Gen. Sterling Price led the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, which numbered about 10,000 ...

Ironclads and Gunboats of the Savannah River Squadron

During the Civil War, the Savannah River Squadron protected the City of Savannah from Union attack by river. The

squadron usually consisted of small coastal and river steamers. In November 1861, the British-built blockade-runner Fingal arrived in Savannah and was ...

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 ...