Orson Pratt – Richard Bentley

Orson Pratt was one of two Latter-day Saint Apostles called by Brigham Young to lead the St. George colony in 1864. When Orson was called on a mission to Europe, the home passed to Richard Bentley. It was partially converted ...

Plaza Bandstand

As early as 1865, Lucian Bonaparte Jewell organized a Brass Band in Prescott, but by the 1870s the regimental bands from Ft. Whipple began to dominate the local music scene. The original Plaza Bandstand, built in the late 1800s, had ...

Portola Trail

Spanish colonization of California began in 1769 with the expedition of Don Gaspar de Portolá from Mexico. With Captain Don Fernando Rivera v Moncada, Lieutenant Don Pedro Fages, Sgt. José Francisco Ortega, and Fathers Juan Crespí and Francisco Gómez, he ...

Mary Powell Bell

This bell, cast by the Meneely Bell Foundry in West Troy, New York, in 1861, came from the famous steamboat Mary Powell which operated on the Hudson River from 1861 to 1917. The Mary Powell ran between Rondout/Kingston and ...

Steedman's Division - Granger's Corps.

Brig. Gen. James B. Steedman.

Steedman's Division - Granger's Corps.

Brig. Gen. James B. Steedman.

Sep. 20, 1863, 2 to 6 P.M.

1st Brigade - Brig. Gen. Walter C. Whitaker.

2nd Brigade - Col. John C. Mitchell.

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This division arrived in rear of Snodgrass House at ...

Chambers Pear Tree

1652 - 2002

This Bartlett pear tree commemorates the original tree planted by Thomas Chambers, who in 1652 settled in this vicinity, which later became known as Rondout and Kingston. Upon his death, he was buried under this tree with ...

Crescent Park Looff Carousel

Has been designated a National Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America

1987

National Parks Service

United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on Bullocks Point Ave., on the right when traveling north. ...

Escape!

Despite the prison's island location, a few Civil War prisoners tried to escape-in the end, always unsuccessfully. Among them was Pvt. Charles Sawyer, a Union deserter who widened this narrow musketry "loophole" (opening to the right), supposedly by piling hot ...

Home of Clara Pendleton Blanchard

1843-1931

For 40 years Clara sailed, first with her father at age nine, then with her husband, Captain William Blanchard, aboard 13 vessels in all. She enjoyed one of the longest documented lives at sea and sailed to all parts of ...

Sampson Opera House

Freeman Building

Originally built in 1875, as a mansard-roofed commercial building, this structure housed stores, a saloon, and on its third and fourth floors, an “opera house” for stage productions. After a fire ten years later, the fourth floor was ...