Completion of 4th Railorad in California
California, Butte County, OrovilleTo Commemorate completion of 4th Railorad in California – Marysville to Oroville, by California Northern Railroad, later the Southern Pacific Co. 1st passenger train...
View ArticleNiagara Portage Road
Ontario, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara FallsFollowing the cession of the east bank of the Niagara River to the United States in 1783, the British authorities felt compelled to transfer the...
View ArticleJanet Carnochan 1839 - 1926
Ontario, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara-on-the-LakeFor more than thirty years Janet Carnochan, a native of Stamford, Ontario, taught elementary and secondary school at Niagara-on-the Lake,...
View ArticleMemorial Hall, 1906
Ontario, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara-on-the-LakeThis building, the first in Ontario to be constructed for use solely as an historical museum, was begun in 1906 and completed the following...
View ArticleCorporal Noah V. B. Ness
Kansas, Ness County, Ness City Seventh Kansas Cavalry Died, August 22, 1864 Abbeville, Mississippi In 1876 the Kansas Legislature name Ness County in his honor. This statue is in memory of Noah Ness...
View ArticleNess County Courthouse
Kansas, Ness County, Ness City [List of County Officials] [County] Population 1500 [on] date of organization 1880 On day of dedication 7225 [County] Valuation $204,597.00 [on] date of organization 1880...
View ArticleThe Canada Constellation
Ontario, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara-on-the-LakeOn July 20, 1799, the first edition of the "Canada Constellation", Upper Canada's earliest independent newspaper, was published at Niagara...
View Article487th Bomb Group
Georgia, Chatham County, Pooler To The Men Of The 487th Bomb Group (H) Lost In Action 1943 -- 1945 487th Bomb Group (H) U.S. Army Air Force 836th Squadron 8th Air Force...
View ArticleButler's Rangers
Ontario, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara-on-the-LakeIn 1777 John Butler of New York raised a force of Rangers who, with their Iroquois allies, raided the frontiers of New York, Pennsylvania...
View Article48th Alabama Regiment Monument
Virginia, Henrico County, HenricoThis monument is dedicated “To the 48th Alabama Regiment Darbytown Road-August 16, 1864 Where it lost five-sixths of its men and four-fifths of its officers, and...
View ArticleConestoga Wagon Trek
Ontario, Regional Municipality of Niagara, near Fort ErieThe border between Canada and the United States of America has witnessed many migrations of people. At two times, however, the migration was...
View ArticleJohn Graves Simcoe
Ontario, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara-on-the-LakeSimcoe was born in Northamptonshire and educated at Oxford. He joined the British army in 1771, and from 1777-81 commanded the Queen's...
View ArticleNiagara Land Purchases
Ontario, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara-on-the-LakeTo obtain land on which to settle Loyalists and dispossessed members of the Six Nations of the Iroquois, Guy Johnson in May 1781 and John...
View ArticleHaddam
Connecticut, Middlesex County, HaddamHaddam In 1660 the General Court received a petition of “Severall members of this Collony prsenting their desires unto this Court of setling a Plantation at 30...
View ArticleSite Of Haddam Town Hall
Connecticut, Middlesex County, HaddamSite Of Haddam Town Hall 1829 – 1929 Middlesex County Court House 1823 – 1896 Granite Lodge No. 119. & A.F. & A.M. 1896 – 1929 Burned February 12, 1929...
View ArticleLion Block
Kansas, Ness County, Ness City has been listed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places by the United States Department of the Interior August 20, 2008 This property has been listed on the National...
View ArticleThirty Mile Island Plantation Burying Ground
Connecticut, Middlesex County, HaddamThe Burying Ground Of Thirty Mile Island Plantation 1662 And The Site Of The Second Meeting House 1721 - 1771 (Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Colonial Era)...
View ArticleVeterans Memorial
Kansas, Ness County, Ness City We, the people of Ness County... with Grateful hearts honor those who served and sacrificed for our Great Nation. To those who proudly served we owe our freedom. We...
View ArticleThe First Welland Canal 1824-1833
Ontario, Regional Municipality of Niagara, St. CatharinesLock number 6 of the original Welland Canal lies in the adjacent watercourse about 213 metres southwest of here. This first or "wooden" canal,...
View ArticleSanta Fe Trail
Kansas, Barton County, Great Bend [Title is text] (Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Industry & Commerce • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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