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Captain Raymond Littge - US Airforce WW2 MO653
US Air Force Capt. Raymond Littge Born in Altenburg October 18, 1923 Died for his country May 20, 1949 A member of the 352nd Fighter Group Credited with Destroying 23 Enemy planes Missouri's top ranking fighter pilot of WWII. It earned him the distinguished service cross,silver star, distinguished fighting cross, along with the air medal with 15 Oak Leaf Clusters
Silver Lake IL531
Silver Lake was established in 1962 with the completion of the dam across Silver Creek, which is one of the major tributaries draining into the Kaskaskia River. The Lake provides the water supply to the nearby City of Highland. The Silver Creek region has a heavy concentration of archaeological sites, indicating the area was an optimal location for habitation in a number of prehistoric periods. Preservation of these sites provides the tangible ties to the past that help give the region its rich character.
Mount Rushmore - part II SD20
The job of raising money was the most difficult, and it fell largely on Borglum and a few South Dakota businessmen. They hoped to persuade a few tycoons to underwrite the whole project, and when their appeals fell on deaf ears, the project bogged down. However, in 1927 a monument drive was started in the South Dakota schools, and when the youngsters willingly gave their nickels and dimes, everyone took heart. The big break came that same year, when, in a show of faith that held out the promise of federal assistance, Calvin Coolidge agreed to vacation in the Black Hills. The committee immediately announced that there would be a dedication ceremony when the President arrived, and Borglum began to plan the show. By the time the presidential party reached the hills, everything was ready. Hanging Squaw Creek, renamed Grace Coolidge Creek, had been stocked with rainbow trout and blocked with hidden nets so the fish could not swim away. "This is either the best trout stream in the world," Silent Cal said as he pulled out his tenth trout on his tenth try, "or I'm the best fisherman that ever was." The night before the dedication a huge barbecue was held in nearby Keystone. There was music and dancing. Huge sides of beef and buffalo were roasted over open fires, and there was enough mountain moonshine to please everyone. In the morning, Borglum hired an open-cockpit airplane and flew over the summer White House, sprinkling rose pedals in honor of the First Lady. The pilot dipped his wings and Borglum waved to the group below, then hastily landed to get ready for the ceremony. A huge crowd was slowly gathering in front of the mountain as the presidential limousine was pulled up the final grade by a team of horses from a local stable. The crowd cheered when the President stepped from his automobile wearing his usual New England vested suit - with a ten-gallon hat and fancy, hand-tooled cowboy boots. Without any fanfare, Coolidge walked to the speaker's platform and stood their, solemnly shaking hands with the children who had lined up early to receive that honor. After the President's speech, Borglum was slowly lowered down the face of the mountain. The crowd grew silent as the sculptor carefully drilled four pilot holes for the head of George Washington; then they began to cheer wildly as he waved and walked back up the face of the mountain. Borglum's crew of hard-rock miners carved for over fourteen years. The monument was plagued by financial problems as the country plunged into the depression of the 30's, but Borglum refused to give up. The same bickering that had destroyed Stone Mountain threatened Rushmore at times. The businessmen temperament of the committee sometimes clashed with the artist's ego, but fortunately everyone agreed that the carving was what counted and the bickering never got out of hand. As the giant heads (proportioned to men 465 feet tall) took shape, Borglum ran into unexpected problems. Jefferson was started on Washington's right, but a poorly placed charge of dynamite sloped the forehead, beyond repair, and the design had to be changed. Borglum blew the nascent head off the mountain and stated again moving Jefferson to Washington's left side. This forced Roosevelt's head back into the rock. Then a hidden fault forced Roosevelt's head even further back, until the final carving ended within ten feet of the canyon that lies behind the mountain. Other problems were caused by traces of heavy deposits of brittle feldspar, while veins of silver run like worry lines across the face of Abraham Lincoln.
King Ranch Quarter Horses TX12190
In the early 1900s, Richard M. Kleberg Sr., Robert J. Kleberg Jr. and Caesar Kleberg entered into an intensive effort to develop a superior ranch horse that had speed, athletic ability, intelligence and cow sense. In 1916, they purchased a yearling colt from famed Quarter Horse breeder George Clegg that not only possessed all of these traits, but more importantly, could pass them on to future generations. This stallion, later named OLD SORREL, became the foundation sire for King Ranch Quarter Horses. OLD SORREL, foaled in 1915, was by HICKORY BILL, by PETER McCUE. He sired many great stallions, including SOLIS, MACANUDO and HIRED HAND. SOLIS went on to sire WIMPY, a stallion that was named Grand Champion at the 1941 Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show. By virtue of this award, WIMPY was given the registration number 1 in the stud book of the recently formed American Quarter Horse Association. WIMPY proved his worth by siring stallions such as SHOWDOWN, who sired PANDARITA HILL; BILL CODY, who in turn sired JOE CODY; and SILVER WIMPY, who sired MARION'S GIRL. A statue of WIMPY, donated by the King Ranch, stands at the entrance to the AQHA headquarters in Amarillo, Texas. LITTLE RICHARD and TOMATE LAURELES, sons of OLD SORREL, were designated AQHA Foundation Sires based on desirable American Quarter Horse qualities. Other accomplished horses of King Ranch include breeding stallions PEPPY, CARDINAL, BABE GRANDE, LITTLE MAN, HIRED HAND'S CARDINAL and REY DEL RANCHO; running champions NOBODY'S FRIEND and MISS PRINCESS; and champion show horses CATARINA and ANITA CHICA. After 1940, the King Ranch Quarter Horse breeding program continued under the supervision of Richard M. Kleberg Jr., who oversaw the selection process of the breeding stock until his death in 1979. Both Robert J. Kleberg Jr. and Richard M. Kleberg Jr. have been inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in honor of their involvement with the breed, as having two King Ranch Quarter Horses, WIMPY and OLD SORREL. In 1985, Richard M. Kleberg Jr.'s son, Stephen J. "Tio" Kleberg, was elected president of AQHA. Under his direction, King Ranch has continued as a leader in the American Quarter Horse industry. Through a combination of strategic horse purchases and the application of its successful breeding techniques, King Ranch has established a dynasty of champion cutting horses led by its stallions MR SAN PEPPY and PEPPY SAN BADGER ("LITTLE PEPPY").
Resting Place of WIMPY P-1 TX12069
Wimpy P-1 became a legend in 1941 when he was selected to receive the "number one" in the new American Quarter Horse Association. When AQHA was established in 1940, the founders agreed to reserve that first registration number for the Grand Champion Stallion at the 1941 Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth, Texas. Foaled on the King Ranch in Kingsville, Texas, in 1937, Wimpy earned that title and with it AQHA's first registration number. Wimpy was the product of a solid breeding program in place at the King Ranch. He possessed excellent cow sense, good temperament, endurance and intelligence. He passed these traits on to 174 offspring. In 1959, at the age of 22, Wimpy's life ended and he was buried on the Cauble Ranch about 20 miles northwest of this location off FM 542 in Leon County. Wimpy is honored with a statue that stands at the entrance to AQHA's International Headquarters in Amarillo, Texas, and was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 1989. Also resting near Wimpy are legendary American Quarter Horses Hard Twist and Silver King. Since 1941, AQHA has grown into the world's largest equine breed association with more than 3.6 million registered horses.
The Ozark Trail at Tampico TX12088
In 1913, William Hope "Coin" Harvey, who operated a resort in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, founded the Ozark Trail Association as a private highway organization. Several Texas and New Mexico counties joined the effort, and the line went diagonally from St. Louis, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico. As part of Harvey's plan, stops along the way featured white obelisks denoting, in the official Ozark Trail green lettering, town names, as well as directions and distances to other towns. The central Ozark route passed across Wellington, Texas, and a second southern route was built through the communities of Childress, Estelline, Tampico, Turkey, Quitaque, Silverton, Tulia, Nazareth and Dimmitt. J.E. Swepston of Tulia, elected Ozark Trail Association president in 1920, was instrumental in having the striking road markers placed in this area. At the time, Hall County had more than 1,000 farms and ranches, and ranchland continued to be divided into farms as more settlers arrived in the area. In 1924, however, with a government initiative to enact a national road-numbering system, the Ozark Trails and other private highways were abandoned or absorbed into the national road system. Adjacent to the Tampico marker was a service station and general store. In 1929, the Tampico oilfield started a short-lived boom in the community, which supported a school. After the oil supply proved minimal, the school consolidated into the Turkey school district. The obelisk, designated a State Archeological Landmark in 1999, remains as a tie to both the early efforts to increase automotive travel and to the community of Tampico.
Warsaw MO574
WARSAW Historic town of the Osage River Valley, Warsaw was laid out in 1837 as the seat of Benton County, organized two years earlier. Lewis Bledsoe's Osage ferry, started in 1831 for traffic over the Boonville-Springfield Road (parts of which were also called Old, Military, or Wire Road), was east of town. A rival ferry, Mark Fristoe's, was to the west. Warsaw became prominent as a frontier river port and distribution point. A land office was located here from 1855-61. The Butterfield Overland Mail had a station in Warsaw, 1851-1861, and other stops in Benton County were Burn's, north of here, and to the south, Bailey's. Today Warsaw is a tourist center, is at the head of the 129-mile Lake of the Ozarks formed by Bagnell Dam, 1931. Warsaw and Benton County suffered in the war years, 1861-1865, from guerrilla raids and troop movements. Warsaw was a Union post, and the Christian Church, built in 1840, was a headquarters. Before Gen. Joseph O. Shelby's troops raided Warsaw in Oct., 1863, Union troops withdrew. Pro-Southern State Guards in bloody conflict dispersed home guards north, near Cole Camp, June, 1861. Centrally located in a county lying both in Ozark and prairie regions, Warsaw serves a resort, lumber, and livestock farming area. Named for U.S. Sen. Thomas Hart Benton, the county was first settled about 1825 by Frenchmen Narcisse Pensineau and German John F. Hogle whose trading post site is now Hogle Creek. Prehistoric animal bones have been found in the county, an area know to early French gold and silver seekers and to explorer and trapper. Though Osage Indians ceded the region, 1808, they and other tribes had large villages in the county until 1835. First American settler was probably the fur trader Ezekiel Williams early 1831 on Cole Camp Creek. Many Southern pioneers and numerous Germans soon followed. The county, in the 1840's, was the scene of the notorious Turk-Jones feud or Slicker War as it was called because victims were often slicked (whipped) with hickory withes. The first bridge across the Osage here, a swinging structure, built 1895, crashed 1913. Once the area had 8 such structures. Today's Warsaw highway bridge dates from 1927 and the Osage Arm bridge from 1938.
Fort Orleans MO540
Fort Orleans Fort Orleans, first European post in the Missouri Valley, was built by the French explorer Etienne Véniard De Bourgmond on the Missouri River close by, a few miles above the mouth of the Grand, 1723-24. The exact location of the fort is not known. De Bourgmond, friend of the Indian and author of the first navigation report on the Missouri River, 1714, was chosen to build the fort by a French trading concern, The Company of the Indies. The fort was to serve as a check to any advance by the Spanish from the southwest and as a base for New Mexican and Indian trade. Some 40 men came with De Bourgmond on the fort building mission. Made Commandant on the Missouri, he was also in charge of making peace with the Comanche Indians. A village of Missouri Indians was across the river from the fort. These Indians, of Souian stock, at one time called themselves Niutachis. They were probably first called Missouris, Algonquin for "he of the big canoe" by the Illinois Indians. The last of the Missouris died on the Oto Reservation in Oklahoma 1907. Westernmost outpost of France in what is now Missouri, the establishment of Fort Orleans included a chapel, first Catholic church in the Missouri Valley. The first resident priest was Abbé Mercier. When the fort was built, De Bourgmond traveled into what is now central Kansas, 1724, where he fulfilled his commission to make peace with the Comanches. In 1725 he returned to France taking several Indian chiefs and a young Missouri maiden along for a visit. The whole party delighted the French who called the girl "Princess of the Missouri," saw her baptized in Notre Dame, and married to a sergeant. De Bourgmond was made a noble and had for his coat of arms an Indian against a silver mountain. De Bourgmond stayed in France, and in 1728 the fort was closed. Fort Orleans was built in territory claimed for France, 1682, and named Louisiana after Louis XIV by La Salle. France held the greater part of this claim for 80 years, then ceded it, 1762, to Spain which held it 38 years, returning it to France, 1800, which sold it to the United States, 1803.
History of the Olney Albino Grey Squirrel IL459
100 YEAR CELEBRATION 1902 - 2002 HISTORY OF THE OLNEY ALBINO GRAY SQUIRREL There were two people who discovered the Olney Albino Gray Squirrel at about the same time, but in different places. William Yates Stroup caught Albinos near his farmhouse four miles southeast of Olney. George W. Ridgeley captured Albinos on his farm six miles southeast of Sumner, IL. In 1902, both brought their squirrels to Olney and they were displayed in the window of Jasper Banks Saloon on Main Street. Later they were brought to a woods near Douglas and Silver Streets, and so populates the City of Olney.
St. John's Church VA1784
Hampton, Virginia The Oldest Anglican Parish in continuous existence in America. Established in 1610, this is the fourth church built in the parish. It was erected in 1728 in the shape of a Latin Cross. Its walls are two feet thick. The bricks are laid in Flemish Bond. Its communion silver bears the hallmark 1618 and has been termed "the most precious relic in the Anglican Church in America." These venerable walls have suffered during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the war between the states. Display # 1 - 10 of 147 |