First Methodist Church

Organized in 1819, this Church is an outgrowth of Grant’s Meeting House, the first Methodist Church building in Georgia, erected 5 miles E. in 1787. In 1820, the Methodists built the first church building in Washington. It was shared by ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Electrified

When Water Powered the Road

It made a great deal of sense to the Milwaukee Road’s directors to electrify portions of the mainline when building the western extension.

They could reduce the high cost of oil-fired, steam powered locomotives. Electric motors were ...

Marquis de Lafayette

Front Plaque

French Statesman

Friend of the American Revolution

“...The new County so to be formed be called Lafayette or Fayette County to perpetuate a remembrance of his virtues and philanthropy through future ages of our political existence...” Petition to the General ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- This Place Had a Name?

During the 1910 fires, fire fighters hopping off a train here at two in the morning wondered, “why anyone bothered to give this spot a name.”

In fact, Adair started out several years earlier as a boisterous railroad construction tent camp ...

Isle of Wight County Confederate Monument

1861-1865

Confederate Dead

Isle of Wight’s loving tribute,

to her heroes of 1861 to 1865.

“They bravely fought

They bravely fell

They wore the gray

They wore it well”

“Bright were the lives they gave for us;

The land they struggled to save for us

Will not forget its ...

32nd Troop Carrier Squadron

In honor of

those who served in the

32nd Troop Carrier Squadron

American Theater

North African Theater

European Theater

1943 - 1946

12th AF • 314th TCG • 9th AF

Courtesy hmdb.org

Devils Lake Vista Subcontinental Divide

Devils Lake, seen here, is a glacial pot-hole on top of a sub-continental divide, waters on its northeast side flow north via the Ontonagon River to Lake Superior and thence east to the Atlantic, while waters on its south side ...

467th Bombardment Group (H)

Sept. 1943 - June 1945

Dedicated 8 October 1983

to the memory of our comrades who died

in training and in 212 combat missions

flown in B-24 Liberator bombers from

Station 145, Rackheath, Norfolk, England

from 10 April 1944 to 25 April 1945,

and to all assigned ...

Protection of the Hudson River

On July 12th, 1776, the British warships Phoenix and Rose sailed beneath the unarmed Bluff Rock, later named Fort Lee. This provocative action led Congress to order General Washington “By every art and whatever expense to obstruct effectively the navigation ...

452nd Bombardment Group

Dedicated to the members of the

452nd Bombardment Group

Activated 1 June 1943

Deactivated 27 August 1945

728th Sqdn • 729th Sqdn

730th Sqdn • 731st Sqdn

Base of Operations

Deopham Green, England

250 combat missions flown in B-17s

1 unit citation

2 Medal of Honor winners

Dedicated 25 June 1983

Courtesy ...