Say goodbye to a man who is being remembered as a hero. One of lieutenant steven floyds final acts was saving his fellow Corrections Officers when inmates took over at a delaware prison last week. Good evening everyone, im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. It was the first chance for the public to say goodbye to the 16 year veteran. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose has more for us tonight from dover. Reporter Law Enforcement from across the region and several states came to pay tribute to lieutenant steven floyd, delawares first corrections officer killed in the line of duty. He saved a lot of people. I think that needs to be recognized. Reporter sacrifice honore honored. Hundreds gathering in Delaware State University for the public viewing for lieutenant steven floyd. The 47yearold corrections officer was killed during a prison up riding at the james t. Vaughn correctional facility in smyrna, delaware, last week. Good brother thats gone too soon. Reporter floyd was prisoners took him and thr
Mrs. Pratt had five of them. The largest collection outside of russia, more than the queen of england owns and she had them here in this house. Later on she donated them to the Virginia State museum. So today you could see them in one of the rooms down there. She predeceased mr. Pratt by a number of years. He lived here by himself up until 1975 when well into his 90s he died and at that point he gave the house to the National Park service. Realizing its historical importance. Thanks to the jens rossty of this man that we are able to show the house to you. I hope you enjoy it. If the you have any questions ask me and of course, we have a lot of interesting things going on on the front grounds today as well. So please take advantage of those as well. The gardens were on the front of the house. Entirely obliterated. If you look at pictures, we have one on the fireplace, of that side of the house during the war, youll see no garden. After the war was over in the 1920s they then moved the g
Welcome to nashville, tennessee on American History tv. In the 19 century, it earned the souththe athens of the because of its reputation as a wealthy and refined southern city. Today, nashville is known for its ties to Country Music. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, we will exhibit two exhibits at the Country Music hall of fame and museum. One about music raging political gaps in the 1960s and another about the origins of Country Music in nashville. Now call Country Music comes from the confluence of the fiddle that came over from ireland and the banjo that came over in the minds of african slaves. Resultose combined, the was the music that came to be called Country Music. It was not originally centered in nashville. It was in large part a radio. Tation this year later, visit the Civil Rights Movement at the Nashville Public Library and learn how nashville became a model city for integration in the south. It was the only methodical and Strategic Movement led by students in
Original ceremony was held on may 10, 1869. Included on this ties a list of the dignitaries from that company, including leland stanford, and the big four are all marked there. Another thing you can see on this site is a connection with the resources that would have the twoilable to companies building the railroad. We have mocked up everything to make it as authentic as possible. If you look on the west side, you will see the cut ties. The Central Pacific had they cut all of their ties and brought them down from the mountain. The Union Pacific from the east had to hand cut their ties wherever they could find wood. Not a lot available in the area so they would split them and you can see them mocked up, how they would cut them and bring them out when they could. The Transcontinental Railroad was happening at the end of the victorian age as you are going into the industrial age. It was a perfect time for the United States. When that Transcontinental Railroad was complete, it made a major
Jacksons life, he added land to the property. He bought and sold property all around the edges. So by the time he died in 1845, the plantation was about 1,050 acres. Jackson understood clearly that part of your power derived from the stage that youre on. And they were building a grand stage set for him and the the family. The front of the house is very grand. Its the style is called greek revival, which was the height of style in the United States in the 1830s. We know of jackson or think of jackson as representing the growing democracy of the country. And the greek revival style appealed to americans because of the greek democracies. So as you approach the mansion coming up the driveway thats shaped like a guitar, very appropriate for nashville, the front of the mansion you see a twostory portico that runs across the house with a gallery and wings running off to the side. That is clearly very state of the art for 1835. And just a very imposing house that became the model for many othe