In the Beginning...

Uncle Sam Chooses Tampa for Base in 1939

On July 14, 1939, the Tampa Morning Tribune announced the war department's decision to build the "Southeast Air Base" in Tampa. The land selected was a 6000 acre marshy area known as Catfish ...

The Jail / Robert Mills

Lancaster County

[Marker Front]:

This is the "gaol" that Willis W. Alsobrook contracted to build for Lancaster District "…agreeable to the plans and specifications signed by Robert Mills…." In 1868 Lancaster District became Lancaster County and this structure became the Lancaster County ...

Lancasterville Presbyterian Church

This congregation was organized May 5, 1835. Its first minister was James H. Thornwell, who later headed SC College in Columbia. The Gothic Revival building was dedicated 1862 and entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The ...

Franklin Academy / Oldest Continuous Public School Site in Lanca

Franklin Academy

Organized in 1825, was the most widely-known of the four schools that occupied this site. Henry Connelly was its first principal. J. Marion Sims who later achieved world fame as a surgeon was one of its pupils. The building ...

Al Sieber

Veteran of the Civil War and for twenty years a leader of Scouts for the U.S. Army in Arizona Indian troubles was killed on this spot February 19th, 1907 by a rolling rock during construction of the Tonto Road. His ...

William Scarbrough

Promoter of the First Transatlantic Steamship

William Scarbrough (1776-1838) was the moving force among the enterprising business men of Savannah who in 1819 sent the first steamship across the Atlantic Ocean. The corporate charter which Scarbrough and his associates obtained from ...

The Bridge

1987-1990

Before dam modifications could begin, a $21.3 million bridge was built to relocate traffic off the top of Roosevelt Dam. Roosevelt Lake Bridge is the longest two-lane, single-span, steel-arch bridge in North America. The bridge, spanning 1,080 feet across ...

Abner Nash

A resident of New Bern for fifteen years; born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, about 1740, but came to North Carolina in 1763; member of Colonial Assembly from Halifax Town in 1764 and 1765; from the County of Halifax in ...

Tonto Basin

Roosevelt Lake's Watershed

Over six million years ago, the mountains surrounding you were lifted skyward. As they rose, the land in between sank, creating the valley known as Tonto Basin.

Melting snow and summer rains drain from the vast Salt River watershed ...

Stephen F. Austin's Cabin

Replica of

Stephen F. Austin's Cabin

This structure is a replica of the only Texas home of Stephen F. Austin, “Father of Texas.” The chimney contains bricks from original (1828) cabin. Other materials were made as authentically as possible.

Austin (1793-1836) opened the ...