The Main British Camp

During the siege of

Fort Stanwix Aug. 1777

The Main British Camp

was between this point

and the bluff to the south

Marker is on East Bloomfield Street west of Harding Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Charles Weber and the Founding of Stockton

Weber Point

Arriving in California with the Bidwell Party in 1841, Charles Weber could not have anticipated the monumental changes that were to come to this region after the Gold Rush. Originally a native of Germany, Weber was an immigrant to ...

Black Mountain Fire

You are standing on Black Mountain. This mountain and Big Spruce Mountain, to your left, were named for the giant spruce trees that once darkened their slopes.

In the early 1900’s, loggers from eight camps in this valley hauled valuable spruce ...

The Point of Beginning

No survey of the western lands of the United States could be made as required under the land ordinance of 1785 until the surveyors for Pennsylvania and Virginia set a marker on the north shore of the Ohio River. On ...

The Abatis

During the construction of this fort, many of the trees which were located directly in front of these embankments were felled forming an “abatis”. This timber obstruction slowed the advance of the attacking forces so that snipers, infantry, and the ...

Battle Mountain

A long period of unrest between the settlers and Indians of Tulare County erupted in war during the Spring of 1856. Untrue reports that five hundred head of cattle had been stolen in Frazier Valley and the burning of the ...

Cherokee Boundary (1777)

[Front Side]:

The Cherokee sided with the British during the American Revolution, and in 1776 Maj. Andrew Williamson's S.C. militia destroyed their "Lower Towns" in what is now S.C. He then cooperated with the N.C. militia in expeditions against the Cherokees ...

Battle of Monguagon

On August 9, 1812, a force of about 600 American troops, regulars and militia, moved down the River Road in an attempt to reach Frenchtown (Monroe) and bring back supplies needed desperately by the Americans in Detroit. At a point ...

Site of Simon Kenton's First Log Cabin Home in Ohio

Site of Simon Kenton's

first log cabin home

in Ohio - Built beside

the old war trail over

which he was led into

captivity - Scene of

his killing the last

Indian slain in combat

in Clark County

Marker can be reached from Urbana Road (Ohio Route 72) north ...

Harrub Pilgrim Memorial

East - Right Side

Plymouth Rock does not mark a beginning or an end. It marks a revelation of that which is without beginning and without end. A purpose shining through eternity with a resplendent light undimmed even by the imperfections ...