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Union Cypress Sawmill
Florida, Brevard County, MelbourneThe Union Cypress Co. was Melbourne’s first big industry, bringing employment, growth and development to the region. Their big cypress/pine sawmill was a three-story,...
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Union Battery Position
Mississippi, Hinds County, JacksonFollowing the surrender of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863, Union forces under William T. Sherman pursued Joseph E. Johnston's Confederate army to Jackson and laid siege to...
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Hostess House
Texas, Lampasas County, LampasasMineral springs such as nearby Hancock Springs flow into Sulphur Creek, providing Lampasas with waters for recreation and health. The Hancock Springs tract became a...
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Hancock Springs Bathhouse
Texas, Lampasas County, LampasasPioneer settlers began establishing homes near Lampasas Springs and Sulphur Creek in the 1850s. During the middle 19th century, stories of the mineral springs and their...
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Hancock Springs
Texas, Lampasas County, LampasasFirst white settlers in 1850's found Indians using curative waters here. Town was quickly developed around the springs. Stage and freight routes and many cattle drives...
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Richmond Pearson
North Carolina, Buncombe County, AshevilleCongressman, 1895-1901; U.S. Minister to Persia, 1902-1907, and to Greece and Montenegro, 1907-09. His home, “Richmond Hill,” was ½ mile N.W. (Notable Persons)...
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Guildhall Square
United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, County Londonderry, Derry-Londonderry The roaring cannon The city claims Europe's largest collection of cannon whose precise origins can be traced. These are the...
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Austins Department Store
United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, County Londonderry, Derry-Londonderry The World's Oldest Independent Department Store ——————— Established in 1830 by its founder Thomas Austin (1815-1892) (Industry...
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The News Around Town
Connecticut, Fairfield County, Danbury The first newspaper printed in Danbury was called The Farmer’s Journal and the year was 1790. By 1837, The Danbury Times was churning out a weekly paper on a...
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Higher Education
Connecticut, Fairfield County, Danbury Continuing educational opportunities have long been available in Danbury. In the late 1800s, the Stillman’s Business College, at the corner on Main and White...
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The Danbury Fire Department
Connecticut, Fairfield County, Danbury The first reference to a fire department in Danbury can be found in The Republican Journal newspaper printed on November 11, 1793 announcing, “A subscription has...
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Savings Bank of Danbury at Bankers’ Row
Connecticut, Fairfield County, DanburyAn important aspect of Danbury’s growth as a regional center was the proliferation of banks. The Savings Bank of Danbury began conducting business in 1849 when...
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World Wars Memorial
United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, County Londonderry, Derry-Londonderry To Our Honoured Dead and Those Who Served 1914 - 1918 1939 - 1945 Names of the Fallen [Panels not transcribed] Sculptures by...
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Shipquay Street
United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, County Londonderry, Derry-Londonderry Living above the 'shop' Many banks and offices started life as 18th and 19th century family houses. The building at the corner of...
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Old Stone Arch Bridge
Illinois, Clark County, MarshallThis Bridge was completed by Army Engineers sometime between 1834 and 1837 as part of the Old National Road, between Cumberland, Maryland and Vandalia, Illinois, was...
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Stephen Tyng Mather
Kentucky, Edmonson County, Mammoth CaveHe laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for...
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Gramercy
Louisiana, Saint James Parish, GramercyIncorporated November, 1947, located partly on Indian-French settlement & trading post site. In 1739 much of this area was sold to Joseph Delille Dupart, a...
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The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux
Minnesota, Nicollet County, near St. Peter Near this place on July 23, 1851, the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of the Dakota sold 21 million acres of land to the federal government for $1,665,000—about...
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Foreman Massacre
West Virginia, Marshall County, McMechenNear this spot occurred the massacre, by Indians, of Captain William Foreman and Twenty of his men on September 27th, 1777.--•-- This marker erected by Wheeling...
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Forman Massacre
West Virginia, Marshall County, McMechenIn the "Narrows," September 27, 1777, Capt. Wm. Forman (Foreman) and his Hampshire County troops were ambushed by Indians; 21 were killed. They had joined Fort...
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