St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Bell

Cast in Sheffield by Naylor Vickers and Co. -1859 – E. Riepe’s Patent no 1027, arrived in Boston 1862 then shipped around the Horn to San Francisco via boat to Sacramento and by six horse team to Forest Hill. Miners ...

Birth of Peter Lassen

“Peter Lassen was born on October 31, 1800 in Farum, Denmark. At the time Farum was a small village about 15 miles northwest of Copenhagen. Peter was a son of humble parents. His mother was Johanne Sophie Westergaard and his ...

Brown’s Island

Brown’s Island was created when the Haxall Canal was extended west to the Tredegar Iron Works.

Encircled by the waterways that provided power and transportation to flour mills, foundries, and paper companies, Brown’s Island has been at the center of Richmond’s ...

Webster’s

(Sugar Loaf House)

This was the site of Webster's Sugar Loaf House, well-known stopping place during the Comstock rush. Beginning in April 1860, it was used as a remount station of the Central Overland Pony Express. In 1861 it became a ...

Orlando Army Air Base

Orlando Municipal Airport opened in 1928 on 65 acres of land north of Lake Underhill. In 1940, with Europe at war, the United States Army took over the airport for defense purposes, activating it as the Orlando Army Air Base ...

Bevier House

Built by Louis Bevier,

the patentee, in 1698.

Elting homestead from

1740. This house has an

interesting sub-cellar.

Marker is at the intersection of Huguenot Street and Broadhead Street, on the right when traveling north on Huguenot Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Brownsville

During the Civil War, the William M. Lewis plantation “Brownsville” consisted of 400 acres of land, a large family residence, and numerous outbuildings. Four of the buildings housed a total of twenty-two slaves. Here stood the main house, referred to ...

Fort Amherstburg (Fort Malden)

The post was begun by the Royal Canadian Volunteers in 1796 to replace Detroit and to maintain British influence among the western Indians. As the principal defense of the Detroit frontier in 1812, it was here that Isaac Brock gathered ...

Hillsboro

Historic District

Hillsboro was founded in the 1870’s after gold and silver was discovered in the surrounding Black Range. The town developed into an important mining and ranching center, and served as the Sierra County seat from 1884 to 1939. It ...

Battery B

1st Md Light Artillery

Maryland

Battery B.

1st Md. Light Artillery

2nd (Smiths) Division

6th (Franklins) Corps

The battery under the

command of Lieut.

Theodore J. Vanneman.

Occupied a position on

the edge of the East

Woods, 240 yards

north from this marker

the Monument to the

Maryland troops is

near the Dunkard

Church

Marker is on ...