The College of William and Mary in Virginia

A charter was granted by King William and Queen Mary in 1693, by fostering “good arts and sciences,” and by educating the youth in “good letters and manners,” the College has maintained its original mission as “a place of universal ...

Indian School at the College of William & Mary

Using funds from the estate of British scientist Robert Boyle, the College of William & Mary established a school to educate young Indian men in 1697, just four years after the college’s founding. To encourage enrollment, in 1711 Lt. Gov. ...

The Demopolis Opera House / Lillian Hellman And

The Little Foxes

The Demopolis Opera House

In 1876, the town of Demopolis leased the former

Presbyterian Church, a classic brick structure

built in 1843 and occupied by federal troops during

Reconstruction, to the Demopolis Opera Association.

The association revitalized the building as a theater

for live ...

The Signer's Monument

Dedicated July 4, 1848, in honor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence for Georgia: George Walton, Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett. The first two lie buried in crypts beneath this shaft. The burial place of Gwinnett, whose body ...

The March to the Sea

On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications to t he North, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive campaign for Savannah – the March to the Sea. He divided his army (US) into two wings. ...

The March to the Sea

On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the North, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive campaign for Savannah – the March to the Sea. He divided his army (US) into two wings. The ...

The TVA System of Multipurpose Dams

Nickajack Dam

The Tennessee River has its headwaters in the mountains of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. The main stream forms at Knoxville, where the Houston and the French Broad Rivers join.

The valley, 41,000 square miles in area, receives an ...

These Trees Planted in Memory of the Firefighters Who Died in th

These Trees Planted in Memory of the Firefighters Who Died in the Dude Fire June 26, 1990

Sandra J. Bachman • Joseph Chacon • Alex S. Contreras • James L. Denny • James E. Ellis • Curtis E. Springfield

Marker is on ...

The Camino Real

For more than 200 years the Camino Real, or Royal Road, was the major route for transporting commercial goods from Mexico City and Chihuahua to Santa Fe and Taos. First traveled by Juan de Oñate during his 1598 expedition to ...

The TVA System of Multi-purpose Dams

Wheeler Dam

The Tennessee River has its headwaters in the mountains of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. The main stream forms at Knoxville, where the Houston and the French Broad Rivers join.

The valley, 41,000 square miles in area, receives an ...