It's the birthday of the American railroad!!

On October 7, 1826, the Granite Railway opened in Quincy, Massachusetts.It is the oldest known chartered railway in America, and the first known "common carrier" (a railroad that transports goods or people for any person or company ( Read more... )

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Layout of the VIP Box at Ford's Theatre on the night Abraham Lincoln died.

This schematic is identical to the one drawn by Army officers the day after Lincoln's assassination, and was used at the trial of the conspirators in June 1865.


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It's National Confederacy Surrenders Day!!!!

April 9, 1865 - Slave-holder Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the rebellion by the traitorous South.


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Engineers survey Ambler Parkway (now MLK Drive/North Park Blvd.) in Cleveland Heights in 1895.


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