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James Oglethorpe making treaty with Indians Early in his career, Eugene of Savoy, under the command of Polish King Jan Sobieski, helped defeat 200,000 Muslim Turks on Sept. 11, 1683, thus saving the city of Vienna, Austria. Savoy helped drive the Turks...

This copy of the Eighth Grade Exam for Bullitt County Schools in 1912 was donated to the museum. We thought you might like to see what the test looked like a hundred years ago. Obviously it tested some things that were more relevant at that time than...

George Rockingham Gilmer wrote a heroic saga of the life, service, and sacrifices of Austin Dabney, an African American Georgia Revolutionary War hero. He first published it anonymously in 1849 and reprinted it under his name in a pamphlet in 1851 and...

Statue of James Oglethorpe Educated at Oxford, James Oglethorpe joined the Austrian army at age 17 and fought to free Belgrade, Serbia, from Muslim Turkish control. At age 21, he returned to England, where he unintentionally killed a man in a brawl...

In 2001 Gene Strachan, a retired relative, called to ask if he could come to visit.  He was working on a family genealogy and wanted access to my father’s photo albums.  I was in this little old house in Valier trying to write and living on pennies,...