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The Savannah Lumber Company
Georgia, McIntosh County, DarienTaken approximately from where you are now standing, the photograph to the top left is of the Savannah Lumber Company’s sawmill, circa 1905. The ruins of this mill are...
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How Steam Engines Worked
Georgia, McIntosh County, DarienThere were numerous styles of steam engines used during the Age of Steam circa 1790-1920. Though there were variations, all steam engines used the same basic concept....
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Lower Bluff Sawmill
Georgia, McIntosh County, DarienThe ruins in front of you were the foundations of the Darien Eastern Sawmill, later to be called the Hilton & Dodge Lumber Company, or Lower Bluff Mill. The Darien...
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Guale Indian Village
Georgia, McIntosh County, DarienColonel Barnwell in early colonial records wrote about an Indian village that inhabited the site of Fort King George “for 40 acres round.” Thousands of sherds of Indian...
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Pier Cemetery
Wisconsin, Fond du Lac County, Fond du LacOn March 1, 1838, Fanna Pier, the first white woman to live in Fond du Lac County, died at the age of 30 after a short illness. Her death was the first of a...
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Markt 54 Birthplace of Alwin Sörgel
Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Mansfeld-Südharz District, Lutherstadt Eisleben Spokesman for the Democrats 1848/1849 and co-founder of cooperative banking • 26 May 1815 Alwin Sörgel was the son of merchant...
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Patsy Ann II
Georgia, Chatham County, Pooler Deputy Lead, First Flight D-Day and Next 23 Missions Harold Morrison P Ty Shanley TG Shot Down On Mission 34 * Dominic Yocco RO # Jim Moos B # CB Murphy CP #...
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James Kneeland House
Wisconsin, Washington County, West BendJames Kneeland, one of the founders of West Bend, purchased this plot of land in the early 1840s. This 2 ½ story side gabled cream city brick building was erected...
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Tuchscherer Residence
Wisconsin, Washington County, West BendThe United States Government Land Grant transfer from Byron Kilbourn, et al to Caroline P. Brown took place March 10, 1847. This front gable home was typical of...
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Stephan F. Mayer Home
Wisconsin, Washington County, West BendStephen F. Mayer (1854-1935) was a prominent resident of West Bend, held numerous elected offices and leadership positions at various levels of government and...
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Hon. Thomas Weaver Home
Wisconsin, Waukesha County, LisbonThomas Weaver, born Oct. 1, 1822, Sussex, England. Sailed to New York, 1830 with parents, James & Elizabeth. Came to Lisbon 1837. Tom married Betty Craven April 7,...
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Old Muskego Town Hall
Wisconsin, Waukesha County, MuskegoMuskego’s only town hall was built in 1921 for community purposes. From 1842, town meetings and elections were in homes, school houses and saloons. Here also, were...
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Rum River Dam
Minnesota, Anoka County, AnokaThe first dam was built here in 1853 of logs and earth fill by Caleb and W.H. Woodbury. It washed away in high water in the Spring of 1854. A second dam was built in 1854...
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Bradford Ripley Alden
California, Siskiyou County, HornbrookOn Aug. 8, 1853 Captain Alden led 10 men of the 4th U.S. Infantry from Fort Jones and 80 volunteers from Yreka over these mountains to the assistance of the Rogue...
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Greenhorn
California, Siskiyou County, YrekaNear this spot in March of 1851 a real “Greenhorn” Englishman traveling through the country inquired at the Bean-McConnell diggings where he might acquire a gold mine....
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Hugo Miller Building
California, Siskiyou County, YrekaThe Arcade Saloon once stood on this site in 1856 where Lotta Crabtree began her singing and dancing profession, and John C. Heenan, ‘The Benicia Boy’ started his...
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Bella Union Saloon
California, Siskiyou County, YrekaSam Lockhart owned this property in 1852 and leased it to a gentleman who ran the Bella Union Saloon for a time. When German-born Charles Iunker and Louis Rapi became...
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Ochoa Street
Arizona, Pima County, TucsonNamed during Arizona’s Territorial period to honor Estevan Ochoa (b.1831 – d.1888), whose ancestors arrived in Mexico with the Cortez expedition. He was born in Chihuahua,...
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Gillum Cemetery
Texas, Burnet County, OakallaAbslom Barton Gillum (1836-1923) and his wife, Hannah Emmaline, arrived in Texas from Alabama in 1872. In 1880, Gillum bought land at the present site of the cemetery. A.B....
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Sgt. James Bryan
California, Siskiyou County, Fort JonesCo. E 4th Infantry Enlisted 1849 • Discharged 1854 Served under Lieut. U.S. Grant Pioneer packer and rancher Married Mary J. Fragley 1864 They had a family of...
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