Stephen Benton Elkins / Halliehurst

Stephen Benton Elkins. Businessman, politician, co-founder City of Elkins. Born in Ohio, 1841; died in Washington, DC, 1911. Secretary of War, 1891–1893; U.S. Senator from WV, 1895–1911. National figure in Republican Party for more than 30 years.

Halliehurst. Summer home ...

Battle of Smyrna

July 3, 1864. Gen. J. E. Johnston's army [CS] withdrew from Kennesaw Mtn. & occupied a double line of field-works which crossed the R. R. at old Smyrna Camp Ground, facing N. W. Loring's A. C. was on the rt. ...

Stars Fell On Alabama / Hodges Meteorite

Stars Fell On Alabama

November 30, 1954. It was cold, clear early afternoon when Dr. Moody Jacobs left his office for lunch, in the sky, he saw a trail of dark smoke and heard an explosion before white smoke shot out ...

First Yuba County Courthouse

First Yuba County Courthouse

1855 – 1962

Marker is at the intersection of D Street and 6th Street, on the right when traveling north on D Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Mission Building

Built at the turn of the 19th Century, originally stood as a stable. Converted to a saloon in the early 1900's, it was also known as a "social club", frequented by ladies of the evening. During the last 40 years ...

The Yuba River Bridge at Parks Bar

1913 - 1994

William M. Thomas of Thomas and Post Consulting Engineers designed the 685-foot-long Parks Bar Bridge in 1912 for Yuba County. The original 16-foot-wide bridge with four 140-foot-long arch spans was constructed by the Portland Concrete Pile Company in ...

Berkeley High School Industrial Arts and Science (G and H Buildi

Henry H. Gutterson and William Corlett, Sr., Architects

1939-1940

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1982

These buildings are fine examples of the Art Deco style in the Bay Area. They were designed as an ensemble with the adjacent Berkeley High School Community Theater. ...

The Corporation Burying Ground

and other Fredericksburg Cemeteries

The park around you was once known as the Corporation Burying Ground. Burials occurred here from 1787 through 1853 and included Dr. Charles Mortimer, who had been Mary Washington's personal physician. He also served as Fredericksburg's first ...

Donnebrouge Mine

1863

Beyond this marker, the "head frame" for the mine still stands while most of the other structures were destroyed over time.

Extensive vertical shafts or "winzes" are honey-combed throughout the area, some of which are reportedly as deep as 1700 ft. ...

Beaufort County South Carolina

Civil War and Forward

1860 -

On November 7,1861 a flotilla of U.S. warships steamed into Port Royal and the "Cotton Kingdom" came to a swift and thunderous end. The planters were forced to flee inland, many never to return, abandoning ...