The Jones Point Lighthouse

Shedding Light on a Landmark

In the 1850's, Alexandria was one of the busiest seaports in the Chesapeake region. To help guide Potomac River ship traffic, the federal government built the Jones Point lighthouse, illuminating the beacon for the first time ...

Point of Rocks / The Dorsey Mansion

This is a two sided marker

Side A:

Point of Rocks

Point of Rocks was a major landmark along the Santa Fe Trail. Located in Jicarilla Apache country, it was near here that the party of Santa Fe merchant J.W. White was attacked ...

West of This Point is the California Aqueduct

West of this point is the California Aqueduct which parallels Interstate Highway 5 for about 250 miles in the San Joaquin Valley. The aqueduct is a major part of the California State Water Project operated by the State Department of ...

The Bull Ring At City Point

A Dreaded Provost Prison

“It was a pen of filth and vermin.” – William Howell Reed, a Sanitary Commission agent

The Bull Ring was the Union provost Marshal’s prison at City Point used for the confinement of Union soldiers convicted or charged ...

Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum/The Medal of Honor Museum

Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum

The South Carolina General Assembly

passed legislation in 1973 enabling the

establishment of the Patriots Point

Authority to develop a portion of Hog

Island as a national naval museum. The

museum opened on October ...

The Point Of Beginning

Late in 1831, when Wisconsin was still in Michigan Territory, Lucius Lyon, U. S. Commissioner on the survey of the northern boundary of the State of Illinois, set a post and erected a mound of earth 6 feet square at ...

The Point

Today's view of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers passing through the water gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains has changed little from Meriwether Lewis' view in 1803. Lewis hoped to find a similar, accessible trade route on rivers passing through ...

Ranching from the High Point

This area of Albany and Laramie Counties is noted for its rich agricultural history. The forests and rolling hills were home to large sheep and cattle herds from the mid 1800s into the 1900s. After the Civil War, trees harvested ...

Miller's Point / Cathedral Gorge

Miller's Point

Named by the Union Pacific Masonic Club February 22, 1935. Dedicated by St. John Lodge No. 18 F & A M August 18, 1935.

Cathedral Gorge

Named by Mrs. W. S. Godbe 1894. Designated a state park by Gov. Jas G. ...

The Turning Point

Elements from the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry Regiment charged past this point in pursuit of disorganized remnants of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment which was retreating toward the railroad tracks. The Union Cavalry appeared to have abandoned Hanover.

Earlier that morning, ...