Confederate General Joseph E. Johnstone, made his headquarters in 1864-1865 in the DeBruhl-Marshall. April, 1960 FRONT (SOUTH) ELEVATION ON LAUREL STREET. – DeBruhl-Marshall House, 1401 Laurel Street, Columbia, Richland County, SC When it was vacated by Johnstone, it seemed good to General Sherman’s soldiers as fuel for their extensive conflagration and was about to be […]
Trace That Call by Clifford Dobbins In the 1950’s and 60’s I was employed by General Telephone of Kentucky. In the early 1960’s I was the business office supervisor in Ashland, Kentucky, which serviced eight surrounding cities. All transactions for the area went through this office. Also at this time I was the President of […]
The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February 1937. With damage stretching from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, one million people were left homeless, with 385 dead and property losses reaching $500 million ($8 billion in 2012 dollars). Federal and state resources were strained to aid recovery, as the disaster occurred […]
The house best known in Morristown, and to all students of history throughout the State of New Jersery and country at large, is the carefully preserved Ford Mansion. *Note: Some of the language below may be a little antiquated because its excerpts and transcriptions from a the book -Transcription from Historic Houses of New Jersey […]
The Schoenfeldt, a Russian-German family, raised turkeys on their farm in Sheridan County, Kansas in August 1939. Photojournalist Russell Lee took many photographs of the family as they went about their daily chores. Family of Mr. Schoenfeldt, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Sheridan County, Kansas Sod house of the Schoenfeldts, FSA (Farm Security Administration) clients. […]
The Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in the U.S. state of Alabama. The cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and southern portions of the range. Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths […]
You may have heard of steam-powered ships and cars. Did you know there was also steam-powered airplanes? A Travel Air 2000 biplane made the world’s first piloted flight under steam power over Oakland, California, on 12 April 1933. However, it was not the first. Samuel Pierpont Langley had the first successful flight on May 6, […]
Go back in time to the days of 1935 in this wonderful, clear Chevrolet commercial. From a horse-drawn Borden’s milk wagon with milkman delivering milk bottles on the front porch, to a 1920s ambulance on a suburban road, you will see what life was like in 1935 as Chevrolet shows off the features of their […]
Frequently, when I am conducting research for a story I am writing, I discover another very interesting story related to it and I often make a note to follow it when I find the time. Sometimes, I find some pretty pretty remarkable people and this is the case with this story. My research started when I wrote, Did you know Birmingham, Alabama […]
He didn’t have much education, never even finished high school, but he had resourcefulness and ambition. When he and his brother were boys, they had gone out into the country and picked up the bones of dead cows and horses and sold them to fertilizer factory. They gathered scraps of iron and sold them to […]
