Green Oak Township, Michigan.
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Twenty-five year old Kinsley Bingham left his New York home in 1833 saying: "Give me $500 and let me go to Michigan and I'll be governor in two years." He settled here, constructing this handsome Greek Revival house in 1842. . . .
(Politics • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Twenty-five year old Kinsley Bingham left his New York home in 1833 saying: "Give me $500 and let me go to Michigan and I'll be governor in two years." He settled here, constructing this handsome Greek Revival house in 1842. . . . (Politics • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
During a raid in the winter of 1864-65, Union Brig. Gen. Benjamin Grierson's cavalry encountered Confederates at Egypt Station on the Mobile & Ohio R.R. The Confederate force included a large number of former Union prisoners . . . 
Pilgrim Memorial State Park is designed around Plymouth Rock, a large glacial boulder deposited in the harbor and smoothed by centuries of tidal wash. The rock is not only a landmark, but also a symbol of the courage and . . . 
The amazing geological formations you see along the Leif Ericson Trail, and at Cape Forchu, are the result of ancient volcanoes that erupted approximately 444-429 million years ago during the Silurian and early Devonian . . . 
First settler in what is now Calhoun City. Born 1776. Left S. Carolina in 1817 for Alabama. Came to Mississippi in 1840. Pioneer, politician, patriot, planter. Died October 20, 1855. Buried on old homesite ½ mi. NW.
Front The son of a Sledge sharecropper, Charley Frank Pride first won notice as a singer when music was just a sideline to his early baseball career. Taking a shot at what seemed an unlikely career in Nashville, he went on . . . 
Plymouth, “America’s Hometown” is the site of the first permanent settlement of English Colonists in New England. Climb aboard Mayflower II, a recreation of the ship that sailed the Pilgrims to the new world . . . and learn . . . 
Bledsoe's Missouri Battery. Lieutenant R. L. Wood Commanding. C.S.A.
Text on first tablet (MT-438): Longstreet's Corps. Major General John B. Hood. September 20, 1863. Johnson's Division, - Brigadier General Bushrod R. Johnson. McLaw's Division - Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw. Hood's . . . 
The text on the front side: Battery G, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps. The text on the back side: This battery, Captain Alexander Marshall commanding, occupied this position from . . . 
Battery M, 1st Ohio Light Artillery 4 James, 2 3" Rifles. Stanley's Brigade, Negley's Division, Thomas' Corps. September 19, 1863. Captain Frederick Schultz, Commanding. 1st Lieutenant Joseph Hein. 1st Lieutenant Eben P. . . . 
Battery G, 1st Ohio Light Artillery 4 Napoleons, 2 3" Rifles. Sirwell's Brigade, Negley's Division, Thomas' Corps. September 20, 1863. Captain Alexander Marshall. Commanding. 1st Lieutenant George W. Bills. 2d Lieutenant . . . 
Stewart's Division - Buckner's Corps Major General Alexander P. Stewart. September 19th, 1863, 5 p.m. Brown's Brigade -- Brigadier General John C. Brown Bate's Brigade -- Brigadier General William B. Bate. Clayton's Brigade . . . 
He made the most of his first full season as a starter, earning All-American honors and he was named a finalist for the Thorpe Award in 2007. He tied an LSU record with three interceptions against Mississippi State in 2007 . . . 
As well-known for his size as for his talent, he was born at 15 pounds, 14 ounces, making him the largest baby ever born in Louisiana. Eventually he was 6-foot-7, 386 pounds and an All-American and two-time All-SEC honoree. . . . 
Origins of New England John Smith’s map and widely read book “A Description of New England” detailed the region’s teeming fishing banks, abundant game, clean rivers, vast forests and native people. The book had a major . . . 
This was once the summer camp of Michigan's National Guard. Here in 1898 the five regiments which were recruited in the state during the war with Spain were organized. Ten men volunteered for every one who could be accepted. . . . 
In 1946, the Tennessee Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention, a negro religious group, purchased twelve acres of ground and buildings at Vance Avenue and Orleans Street for $375,000 to begin a school. In 1954, Owen . . . 
Dedicated to the memory of the Men of Rye who fought in the Revolutionary War The War of 1812 Civil War 2 rows with 43 names Spanish War 2 rows, 2 names Dedicated to the memory of the Men and Women of Rye Who served our . . . 
A tabby interior wall provides evidence that a portion of this building remains from the First Spanish Period before coquina stone construction took its place. Tabby was a form of construction that produced a cement slurry . . . 
