Operation Dixie

Black leaf house workers in eastern N.C.

unionized in 1946. First pro-union vote,

at tobacco factory 1 block W., precursor

to civil rights movement.

Marker is at the intersection of Franklin Street (U.S. 301 S.) and McDonald Street, on the right ...

Savannah's Wharves

One of the first problems facing Savannah settlers was the lack of adequate facilities to dock vessels. While river depths along the bluff Oglethorpe selected for the town provided excellent anchorage, the swift currents and steep bank made construction of ...

Grandview, 1898

"No language can fully describe, no artist paint the beauty, grandeur, immensity and sublimity of this most wonderful production of Nature's great architect. [Grand Canyon] must be seen to be appreciated."

C.O. Hall, Grand Canyon visitor, 1895.

Reports like this from early ...

Dr. Peter Eppes House

"At first we lived in tents, but later, when my husband became commander of the post, I lived most comfortably in a house...." - Septima M. Collis

The house Septima Collis lived "most comfortably" in during the last months of the ...

Civil War Occupations

Threatened by Union forces to the west, CSA, who had occupied city five months and fortified hills, planned to evacuate Feb. 14, 1862. Other Federals came from north and bombarded from across the river. CSA set fire to depot and ...

Schultz's Battery

In Memoriam

Zum Andenken der Deutsch

Amerikanishe Freiwilligen

Schultz's Battery

Civil War 1861 - 1865

Battery M, First Ohio

Volunteer Light Artillery

Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio.

Erected in 1938 by

George Hemm Jr.

in memory of

his parents and the pioneer

immigrant German settlers,

soldiers and sailors of the

United States.

Their magnificent support of

President ...

Ross' Headquarters

Brig. Gen. L. S. Ross, commanding the Texas brigade of Brig. Gen. Wm. H. Jackson’s cavalry [CS], had fought delaying actions with Schofield’s 23rd A. C. [US] (the rt. of Sherman’s forces) since both armies moved from Paulding Co.; Ross ...

Capture of the "Ohio" and "Somers"

Prise des Goelettes "Ohio" et "Somers"

On the night of 12 August 1814, as a prelude to a British attack on Fort Erie, an expedition was mounted against three armed American schooners anchored off the fort. Captain Alexander Dobbs, R.N., embarked ...

Ernest Hogan

Born Reuben Crowdus on April 17, 1865 in Bowling Green, Ky. He left home at age 12 to sing in minstrel shows. He became prominent as a songwriter in the 1890s. In 1895, he wrote “La Pas Ma La” & ...

City Point, Virginia

8000 — B.C. Indian occupancy.

1613 Sir Thomas Dale establishes area as “Bermuda Cittie.”

1619 — Name changes to Charles City Point.

1621 — Rev. Patrick Copeland plans to build free public school, financed by the East India Company.

1622 — The Indian Massacre ...