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"Oh Give Us a Navy of Iron"

During the Civil War, Captain John Ericsson rendered wooden naval vessels obsolete with his revolutionary vessel the U.S.S. Monitor. In 1862 D. Brainerd Williamson and James Porter honored Ericsson’s contribution with a prophetic ballad: “O give us a Navy of Iron, And to man it our Yankee Lads; And we'll conquer the world's broad oceans, With our Navy of Iron clads.”

Ogden Route: Transcontinental Ambitions

The “Last Spike” at Promontory Point, Utah united the nation by rail in 1869. The Central Pacific owners then organized the Southern Pacific as a sister company to capture the California market. For thirty-five years passengers on the Southern Pacific traveling to and from Ogden, Utah would pass the famous point as they rounded the northern end of the Great Salt Lake.

Midnight Ride

Few of the patriots who threw British tea into Boston Harbor were identified in their lifetimes. The master goldsmith, Paul Revere, was a known leader of that act. As a member of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, he was deeply involved in the rebellion. But his fame as the celebrated rider who warned that the British troops were marching out of Boston was primarily the product of Longfellow’s long-remembered and oft-recited poem written in 1861.

November 6, 1976 - April 22, 2004

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