capital of Canada. Fort Henry, built during the War of 1812 and rebuilt from 1832 to 1836, is now a museum. Kingston is the seat of Queen's Univ. (1841), of the Royal Military College, of a campus of St. Lawrence College, and of Anglican and Roman Catholic bishoprics and ...
On this site, after the devastating hurricane of 1848, McKay, a native of Scotland, built his first permanent home of finished lumber from Mobile, Ala. Here, with his wife Matilda, they raised their children. McKay was a dominant factor in the building of Tampa in pioneer times. His shipp...
It was the station for one of the first black regiments recruited during the Civil War, the 1st Louisiana Native Guard. 2. Fort Wadsworth at Gateway National Recreation Area – Portions of Fort Wadsworth, which was the longest manned military installation in the United States at its close in...
The senior Luce’s health improved during 1947 and in the fall of 1948 he and his wife Helen embarked on a trip to Europe to visit their son George E., who was in Belgium with his wife Willouise studying the native tongue in preparation for a missionary trip to the Congo. Their visit...
In 1843 famed artist and ornithologist John James Audubon arrived at Fort Union on the steamboatOmegato conduct field work for a new book,The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America(four-legged mammals). He spent two months at Fort Union collecting information on native mammals. ...