February 20, 2017, 9:58 am
Anaheim, California.For more than half a century, the Pacific Electric Railway served Southern California. The system was established by Henry Huntington in 1895 and linked Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties with over . . .
(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 20, 2017, 9:59 am
Anaheim, California.For more than half a century, the Pacific Electric Railway served Southern California. The system was established by Henry Huntington in 1895 and linked Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties with over . . .
(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 20, 2017, 9:59 am
Stanton, California.For more than half a century, the Pacific Electric Railway served Southern California. The system was established by Henry Huntington in 1895 and linked Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties with over . . .
(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 20, 2017, 4:53 pm
Scranton, Pennsylvania.As early as 1910, there was an electric sign atop this building that could be seen after dark from many vantage points throughout the City of Scranton. In early photos it reads "Watch Scranton Grow". Later the message was . . .
(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 20, 2017, 7:54 pm
Columbus, Georgia.Located on the bank immediately to the north was the C.S.A. Naval Yard. The facility which built the ironclad Ram "Muscogee" and renovated the gunboat "Chattachoochee." Sunk in the river in 1865, these boats were salvaged . . .
(Notable Buildings • Industry & Commerce • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 20, 2017, 8:30 pm
Columbus, Georgia.The Creek Indian War of 1835-1836, which centered on Columbus, began when a group of Indians revolted rather than move from East Alabama to Oklahoma they attacked travelers and settlers and threatened Columbus. State militia . . .
(Native Americans • War, Mexican-American • Wars, US Indian • War, Texas Independence) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 20, 2017, 8:58 pm
Columbus, Georgia.Unaware of Robert E. Lee's surrender, General James H. Wilson's Union Cavalry swept across Alabama as boys and old men tried to defend Columbus. Cannon from the C.S.S. Chattahoochee, similar to nearby replicas, were mounted . . .
(Industry & Commerce • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 21, 2017, 6:12 am
Manassas, Virginia.A Native of New Jersey, Abraham Van Pelt arrived in Prince William County in the 1850s. The 70-year-old Van Pelt, accompanied by his wife Jemima and daughter Elizabeth, settled on a 230-acre farm they called "Avon." The . . .
(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 21, 2017, 6:28 am
Manassas, Virginia.Though much changed through the years, the Thornberey House survives as one of three Civil War-era structures in the park. Built in the 1840s it was home to John and Martha Thornberry and their five children. John Thornberry . . .
(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 21, 2017, 6:45 am
Manassas, Virginia.Before being defined as a Battlefield, this landscape existed as the crossroads hamlet of Sudley Springs. Although it consisted of fewer than a dozen households in 1860, three features distinguished Sudley Springs from . . .
(Churches, Etc. • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 21, 2017, 7:00 am
Manassas, Virginia.Colonel Francis S. Bartow was killed near here while leading the 7th Georgia Infantry in a counterattack. An ardent defender of slavery and states' rights, the Georgia politician was placed in command of a brigade of state . . .
(War, US Civil • Military) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 21, 2017, 7:06 am
Manassas, Virginia.The road trace before you once linked the Spring Hill Farm (Henry Hill) and the Portici plantation. Both of these properties figured prominently at First Manassas and the narrow path connecting them became a conduit for . . .
(War, US Civil • Military • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 21, 2017, 7:13 am
Manassas, Virginia.Many Confederates felt they had lost the battle - perhaps the war. At that moment Generals Johnston and P.G.T Beauregard arrived on Henry Hill and began to rally the scattered regiments. The fugitives started to reform . . .
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February 21, 2017, 7:24 am
Manassas, Virginia.Shortly after the Confederate army left the area, Northern photographers ventured out to the battlefield to document the landscape. George Barnard captured this image of Henry Hill in March 1862 from approximately where you . . .
(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 21, 2017, 7:31 am
Manassas, Virginia.5th Position 7th GA Regt. July 21, 1861.
(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 21, 2017, 7:37 am
Manassas, Virginia.Colonel Wade Hampton's infantry occupied the Warrenton Turnpike in front of the Robinson farm as the Confederate position on Matthews Hill collapsed. Having arrived at Manassas Junction earlier that morning after a 30-hour . . .
(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 21, 2017, 8:26 am
Paisley, Florida.On October 29, 1966, Jim Kern, founder of the Florida Trail Association, and like-minded hiking enthusiasts began building the Florida Trail at the entrance to Clearwater Lake Recreation Area in the Ocala National Forest. . . .
(Horticulture & Forestry • Environment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 21, 2017, 8:34 am
Austin, Texas.Central Texas native Malcolm Reed followed his father into business and ultimately became a leading cotton exporter. He wed Margaret “Maggie” Badger of Marble Falls in 1898, and in 1908, they moved to Austin. In 1929, they . . .
(Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 21, 2017, 8:45 am
Richmond, Virginia.Overshot waterwheels generated mechanical energy that operated all of Tredegar's furnaces and machinery from the time of the Iron Work's founding in 1837 until just after the American Civil War. Turbines replaced Tredegar's . . .
(Industry & Commerce • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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February 21, 2017, 10:02 am
Columbus, Georgia.Columbus industries supplied more goods to the Confederacy than any other southern city except Richmond. Existing factories expanded; merchants launched new manufactories; and the C.S.A. established an arsenal and a . . .
(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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