The Land Upon Which We Pray

This property granted for church purposes

by the Lord Proprietors of East Jersey

294 years ago, in the year 1682.

Provision was made in the grant for a

triangle or “gore” for the church.

The first church building, “Old First”

Dutch Reformed Church, was erected in ...

Fort Buhlow and Fort Randolph

Fort Buhlow and Fort Randolph were earthwork/moat fortifications constructed beginning October 1864 by Confederate forces anticipating a repetition of Union Gen. Nathaniel Banks’ Summer 1864 Red River

Expedition. Construction, completed March 1865, was under the command of Capt. C.M. Randolph and ...

Zumbi dos Palmares Monument

Panel 1:

Zumbi dos Palmares

“É chegada a hora de tirar nossa nação das trevas da injustica racial.”

Nasceu livre, em 1655, na Serra da Barriga, união dos Palmares, Alagoas. Neto de Aqualtune, não permitiu a submissão de seu povo ao jugo ...

Manchaca United Methodist Church

Methodists in the Manchaca community began meetings as early as 1871 when circuit riders held worship services in the old rock church owned by the Cumberland Presbyterian congregation. Although this fellowship was not organized formally until 1874, the Rev. Sam ...

Anchor from Freighter Grand Camp

Texas City Disaster

9:12 a. m., April 16, 1947, the French freighter Grand Camp exploded, setting off a disaster that killed 576, injured 5,000 and destroyed $67 million in property. This 10,640 pound anchor was found buried 1/2 mile from the ...

The View That Named The City

The curve of the James River and steep slope on this side of are very much like the features of the River Thames in England, at a royal village west of London called Richmond upon Thames.

William Byrd II, an important ...

This Memorial Pyramid

Commemorates the belief that in this ancient family cemetery were buried near the remains of Francis Makemie, those of his wife Naomi, his daughters Elizabeth and Madame Anne Holden, and his father-in-law, William Anderson. Also those of John Milligan and ...

Fort Coombs - Franklin Guards

The Franklin Guards, a company of Infantry organized in Apalachicola in 1884 by J. H. Coombs and Fred Betterfield, erected the first building in the city to be used solely as an armory in 1898. Made of simulated brick, it ...

Captive Women and Children of Taos County / María Rosa Villapand

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Captive Women and Children of Taos County

In August 1760, around sixty women and children were taken captive in a Comanche raid on Ranchos de Taos. That raid is an example of the danger of living on New Mexico's frontier ...

Confederates Converge

Confederate General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North hinged on eliminating the Harpers Ferry garrison. To do so Lee devised Special Orders 191. He divided his force of 40,000 into four parts. Three columns marched from near Frederick, ...