Mogollon Rim Country Firefighters Memorial

Dedicated

to

Firefighters

who made the

Ultimate Sacrifice

to protect our magnificent

Mogollon Rim Country

Date - Fire Name - Victim's Name - Remarks

6/15/61 - Roberts - Chuck Cochane - Pilot TBM Air Tanker

6/21/61 - Hatchery - Constantine (Corky) Kodz* - Forest Service Employee Aircraft Crash

6/21/61 ...

Mansfield Soldiers Orphan School

In memory of

Professor F.A. Allen

erected by

former pupils of the

Mansfield Soldiers

Orphan SchoolHis words of wisdom and tender

admonition have provided a guide

and inspirationThis tablet marks the site

of the school, 1867-1889

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Business U.S. 15) and ...

Confederate Sharpshooter?

“…some mother may yet be patiently waiting for the return of her boy, whose bones lie bleaching, unrecognized and alone, between the rocks at Gettysburg.”

Alexander Gardner

Civil War photographer

In front of you is the setting of one of Gettysburg’s most famous ...

Rural Electrification

In 1936 seventy-five percent of Pennsylvania farms had no electric service. During the next five years, with Federal support, 14 consumer-owned cooperatives were formed in the State. Tri-county Rural Electric Cooperative, serving much of north-central Pennsylvania from Mansfield, was incorporated ...

First Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church was established in 1808 under the leadership of the Rev. James Jenkins, an early circuit-riding minister, and John Buchanan, a captain in the Revolution. Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury visited here from 1809 to 1814. ...

Freeman Marker

This is one in a series of 61 markers erected beginning in 1925 to identify the battlefields around Richmond. The tablets were the work of the Battlefield Markers Association, a group of historians committed to commemorating the Richmond battlefields. Most ...

Fitzsimmons-Maher Prizefight

In 1896, Judge Roy Bean made national headlines with a unique boxing match held at this site. Robert James Fitzsimmons was to fight James J. Corbett, the heavyweight champion, but the Legislature had outlawed boxing in Texas. While promoters sought ...

General Turner Ashby of Fauquier

A mile and a half southeast

of this spot

General Turner Ashby of Fauquier,

“Knight of the Valley”, was killed in battle

June 6, 1862.

To honor him

and all of Rockingham’s enlisted men,

1861-1865

this tablet is erected,

1926.

Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street (U.S. ...

Replica of the Statue of Liberty

With the faith and courage of

their forefathers who made

possible the freedom of these

United States

The Boy Scouts of America

Dedicate this copy of the

Statue of Liberty as a Pledge

of everlasting Fidelity and

Loyalty

The Crusade ...

The Torres Family

In the 1870-80s, brothers Cesario, Bernardo and Juan Torres were prominent west Texas citizens due to their irrigation work in the region. For work out west, Bernardo received land in Val Verde County at the Rio Grande - Pecos River ...