Ontario, Leeds and Grenville Counties, Gananoque
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John Henry Brown enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 18 August 1916 and reported to the 10th battalion in France in late June 1917.
On 15 August his unit captured Hill 70, just east of Vimy Ridge. But on 16 August it was counter-attacked repeatedly. Private Brown delivered a vital message through an intense enemy artillery barrage despite having an arm almost torn off. The message saved the lives of many comrades. But Private Brown died of his wounds the next day. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for bravery in the British Commonwealth. Only 94 Canadians have earned it since it was created in 1856.
They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
we will remember them.
(Notable Persons • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
John Henry Brown enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 18 August 1916 and reported to the 10th battalion in France in late June 1917.
On 15 August his unit captured Hill 70, just east of Vimy Ridge. But on 16 August it was counter-attacked repeatedly. Private Brown delivered a vital message through an intense enemy artillery barrage despite having an arm almost torn off. The message saved the lives of many comrades. But Private Brown died of his wounds the next day. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for bravery in the British Commonwealth. Only 94 Canadians have earned it since it was created in 1856.
They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
we will remember them.
(Notable Persons • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Crossing rivers was the most dangerous activity emigrants faced on their journey west. By the time weary pioneers enroute (sic) to Oregon, California, or Utah reached the east bank of the Green River, they had been on the trail for several months. Utah was close, but those going to Oregon or California were only halfway there. 
The opening fight at Brawner Farm revealed Stonewall Jackson's position north of Groveton. In response, General John Pope ordered his entire force - nearly 65,000 Federal Troops - to converge on the Confederates and bring them to battle. This directive led the army back to the First Manassas battlefield, stirring poignant memories of the previous year's defeat.
On March 29, 1900, the Women’s Literary Club and the Self Culture Club formed a city federation for the purpose of organizing a public library. Soon the first library opened in a corner of the post office building and later moved to a book store. In 1901 the National Library Program of steel millionaire Andrew Carnegie funded a library building. The new structure was opened in 1904 in the center of the city park at First and Central Avenue. Citizens headed by Mrs. W.S. Banks held fund drives to operate the facility until 1907 when the city appropriated revenue.
Born near Fredericksburg, Virginia, Bernard Moore Temple was a noted railroad engineer. In 1862, he enlisted in the Virginia artillery, joining the Confederate Army, where he acquired engineering experience in artillery and ordnance. Temple made use of his skills when he moved to Kansas to work as a railway engineer in 1868. During the next four years, he worked for three railway companies, building lines in Kansas and Nebraska, while apprenticing under master railroad builders, including the noted engineer and aviation pioneer, Octave Chanute.
For the hundreds of people heading west, life was one day at a time. The travelers had settled into the monotonous routine of life on the trail - up before dawn, an early breakfast, hitch up the stock, and begin the day's journey. 
Just as the Green River was important to emigrant as a source of life-giving water and wildlife, it is important to us today a century and half later for the same reasons. 
Welcome to Green River, Wyoming - a town named for the river below you. This high-desert community was established in 1868 as the Union Pacific Railroad expanded across Wyoming. Throughout history Native Americans, explorers and trappers have referred to this once wild river with different names, including "Spanish River" and "Seed-ke-dee", or Prairie Hen River. The name Green River dates back to 1824. Many adventurous men and women have floated this river before and after Major John Wesley Powell's famous expeditions in 1869 and 1871. Have you floated the river? 
The Green River has long been a workplace for several major industries, providing jobs to many people in the area. Harvest of railroad ties was one of the first to develop. From 1868 to 1945, spring runoff signaled the arrival of the ties and tie hacks. Tie hacks were men who cut and shaped ties in the forests of the Upper Green River and floated them down to town where they stacked up against a large gate or boom across the river. The hacks' final job was loading ties onto railcars for shipment to creosote treatment plants. Sawn lumber was a related business. A steam-powered sawmill near the confluence of the Green River and Bitter Creek provided lumber for construction of the expanding towns of southwest Wyoming. This mill operated from 1868 to 1920. 
A section of the famed Chisholm Trail (1867-1885), which was used to drive cattle from Texas to the rail heads in Kansas after the Civil War, crosses a portion of Vance AFB near the entrance to the Armed Forces Reserve Center. The trail was named after Jesse Chisholm, a true pioneer of the American West. Born in 1805 to a Scottish father and a Cherokee mother, he was the very embodiment of the collision of two great cultures. A merchant, guide, and interpreter, Chisholm established small trading posts in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas from the 1830s to late 1860s. Fluent in fourteen Native American dialects and a natural diplomat, Chisholm served as interpreter for numerous treaty councils in Texas, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), and Kansas. While his reputation for fairness and neutrality earned him the nickname of "Peacemaker of the Plains," he is best known as the namesake to the Chisholm Trail, the world's greatest cattle trail (1867-1885). At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Chisholm and a number of Wichita Indians left their homes in South Central Oklahoma and moved near present day downtown Wichita, Kansas. On their return to the plains of Indian Territory after the war, their wagons carved out the route which later became known as the Chisholm Trail.
