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Built circa 1870 for Thomas T. and Mary Dilliningham Land. Thomas Land was a state supreme court justice and the family was prominent late 19th to 20th century. Later owned by the Peyton Family who operated a chain of . . .
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Built circa 1870 for Thomas T. and Mary Dilliningham Land. Thomas Land was a state supreme court justice and the family was prominent late 19th to 20th century. Later owned by the Peyton Family who operated a chain of . . . (Notable Buildings • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Fort Williams (1833-1834) Fort Williams was constructed in late 1833 by the firm of Sublette & Campbell and named for one of its founders. William Sublette and Robert Campbell were St. Louis businessmen involved in the Rocky . . . 
Irrigation possibilities in the area were recognized as early as 1902. On November 18th, 1904 the Buford-Trenton Project was authorized by the Secretary of the Interior. Reclamation Service (now the Federal Bureau of . . . 
The Tennessee Wagon Road was a heavily traveled route that passed through the Allatoona Mountain Range. It traversed north to Chattanooga and south to Sandtown, which was located on the Chattahoochee River just west of . . . 
(THEN) In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson sent Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" to explore the American West and record "the dates at which particular plants put forth or lose their . . . 
Gainesborough to Big Lick to Roanoke The early settlement of Roanoke started along the Big Lick, a large salt marsh that attracted animals and hunters to the Roanoke Valley. The earliest roads through the valley followed . . . 
Today's Gainsboro neighborhood and the surrounding area has been referenced by many names over the years. The first settled area was known as Big Lick in the 1800s, named after the large salt marsh near the Great Road. In . . . 
The Battle of Ezra Church The Battle of Ezra Church was the third of three desperate Confederate attacks on the forces of Maj. Gen. Wm. T. Sherman, which were closing in on Atlanta. The battle lines formed an irregular V . . . 
In addition to religious activities, the churches in Northeast and Northwest were instrumental in providing community leadership, childhood education, and information on public and social issues. By 1900, there were nine . . . 
While the 15th Corps was feeling its way south through the densely wooded country behind Blair's right, increasing resistance by Confederate cavalry skirmishers (dismounted), and occasional artillery fire, warned Howard of . . . 
The Fairmount Heights Municipal Center was constructed originally as a fire hall; it later was used as a health clinic, a library, a general meeting space and more importantly as the town hall. the lots on which it stood . . . 
On July 27th, Lieut. Gen. Stephen D. Lee assumed command of Hood´s former corps. Both he and Stewart directed to hold their respective corps "in readiness" and to report at Hood´s headquarters. After explaining his plan to . . . 
House built 1908 by Lt. Governor Thomas Charles Barett on property purchased by his father in 1866. Acquired by Mr. & Mrs. William M. Barett in 1938.
The Fairmount Heights Methodist Episcopal Church now known as Grace United Methodist Church was originally established in 1909. The first services were held in Charity Hall located at what is now 715 61st Avenue. For a short . . . 
In 1911, James Armstrong was appointed a member of the building committee for the proposed Fairmount Heights Elementary School (now located at Addison Road and 61st Avenue). A few years later he was named Director of Manual . . . 
Captain Lewis Thursday, April 25, 1805 On the Missouri River, near the entrance of the Yellowstone River "...I ascended the hills from whence I had a most pleasing view of the country, particularly of the wide and fertile . . . 
Thursday and Friday, April 25 and 26, 1805 Rich wildlife heralded the expedition's arrival at the Yellowstone-Missouri confluence. Impatient, Lewis ascended the south bluff to view the "wide and fertile vallies." He camped . . . 
The large brick house nearby was Baker's Drovers Inn. This highway was the early state Manchester & Lawrenceburg Turnpike. A short distance from here was a Toll-Gate house.
Older than the new City of Roanoke developing to its south, Gainesborough ("Old Lick") was growing as a racially-diverse neighborhood that was the center of the African-American community by the 1890s. Businesses serving the . . . 
Section of the propeller shaft of the famous Iron-Clad Virginia (Merrimac), an essential portion of the machinery furnishing motive power to the ship in her engagements in Hampton Roads, when she, under command of Admiral . . . 
