U.S. Submariners On Eternal Patrol Since World War II

In memory of the crew members

that lost their lives on

U.S. Submarines after WWII,

God Bless the shipmates on

eternal patrol

Courtesy hmdb.org

Pleasanton School Integration

Pleasanton School District began educating African American children in 1913 with the creation of the Abraham Lincoln School. By 1955, students from the Lincoln School and white students were participating in football workouts together and scheduling basketball games. However, in ...

Battle of Medina

Texas' bloodiest military engagement -- the Battle of Medina -- may have taken place in this general vicinity in 1813. The early 19th century was a time of political upheaval, and in 1812, while the U.S. was at war with ...

Atascosa Lodge No. 379, A.F. and A.M.

Organized by eleven Master Masons in Benton City in 1872 and chartered June 9, 1873, by Grand Lodge of Texas. First hall, erected of stone in 1876, provided space for public school. The lodge, which has furnished social and cultural ...

Old Atascosa County Jail

County officials rented a small Jourdanton house for a jail in 1911 after the county seat was moved here from Pleasanton in 1910. A proposal to build a new jail with cells from the old Pleasanton structure was rejected and ...

Atascosa County Courthouse

Atascosa County was created from Bexar County in 1856. The first county seat was at Navatasco, on land donated by Jose Antonio Navarro, and the county's first courthouse was a log cabin. The county seat was moved to Pleasanton in ...

Northwestern National Insurance Company

Erected in 1906 and designated in 1970 as a landmark of the City of Milwaukee by the Milwaukee Landmarks Commission in recognition of its architectural and historical significance to the community.

Marker is at the intersection of East Wisconsin Avenue ...

Union Station and the Santa Fe

1914

1911

The City Commission forced the railroads to elevate the East Douglas tracks, which solved the problem of having the Santa Fe, Rock Island and Frisco lines crossing and often blocking the street. It also proposed that a single, or unified, ...

Plainsfield Plantation

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Plainsfield Plantation, on this site, and Pawletts Plantation, nearby, were established ca. 1690

by Joseph Blake (1663-1700), one of Carolina’s Lords Proprietors and governor of the colony 1694 and 1696-1700.

Blake, who had come to the colony ca. ...

Water Wheel

Water wheels were commonplace to the gold mining regions, providing power for mining and milling operations. Powered by water the wheel was attached to a series of belts and gears which turned the machinery to crush the ores. This water ...