Brian Tomlin | March 31, 2013
March 1863 March 2. Clapham Junction railroad station opens in London. Clapham Junction station opened on 2 March 1863, a joint venture of the L&SWR, the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) and the West LondonExtension Railway (WLER) as an interchange station for their lines. When the station was built Battersea was regarded as a poor district while Clapham, […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 29, 2013
Today’s blog post continues a multi-part series on the Petersburg National Battlefield – that portion of the battlefield which made up the Eastern Front, where the opening assaults and the Battles of the Crater and Fort Stedman occurred. All parts of the series can be accessed by clicking on the series title here, Touring the […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 28, 2013
Today’s blog post continues a multi-part series on the Petersburg National Battlefield – that portion of the battlefield which made up the Eastern Front, where the opening assaults and the Battles of the Crater and Fort Stedman occurred. All parts of the series can be accessed by clicking on the series title here, Touring the […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 27, 2013
Today’s blog post continues a multi-part series on the Petersburg National Battlefield – that portion of the battlefield which made up the Eastern Front, where the opening assaults and the Battles of the Crater and Fort Stedman occurred. All parts of the series can be accessed by clicking on the series title here, Touring the […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 26, 2013
Between 1909 and 1959, there were very few commemorative stamp issues of the United States that honored Abraham Lincoln. The issue of 1909, for the Centenary of Lincoln’s birth (pictured below) was mentioned here in a blog post in late January. For those readers new to this series of posts on Abraham Lincoln on Stamps, […]
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