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Jack M. Campbell Highway

Taos to Tierra Amarilla

This road passes through some of the most spectacular scenery in the American Southwest. It is a key section of the east - west highway which brings visitors to this region from throughout the United States. Since ...

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Prehistoric Mesa Verde Reservoirs

National Historic

Civil Engineering Landmark

[American Society of Civil Engineering

1852 Logo]

Prehistoric Mesa Verde Reservoirs

Mesa Verde's industrious Ancestral Puebloans designed, constructed, and maintained Morefield, Box Elder, Far View and Sagebrush Reservoirs for domestic water-storage between A.D. 750 and 1180.

Marker can be reached from ...

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Hostetler Amphitheatre

Dedicated in honor and memory

Judge Bruno O. Hostetler

1861 - 1954

Leadership in establishing

college in Kearney

1903

A gift from his daughter

Mrs. Florence H. Raymond

June 19, 1980

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Main Passenger Terminal

“Modernized” 1902

Original Building 1857

Marker is on Middlebrook Avenue (Virginia Route 252), on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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New Market Battlefield Park

has been registered as a

Virginia

Historic

Landmark

pursuant to the authority vested in the

Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission

Act of 1966

[ Lower Marker : ]

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on George R. Collins Parkway ...

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James A. Maple

P. E. Arctic Pipeline Pioneer

Dr. Maple was a structural engineer and principal designer of the trans-Alaska pipeline. He holds three patents for his development of innovative pipe supports that enabled the warm oil pipeline to safely traverse areas of permafrost. ...

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New Zion Baptist Church

New Zion Baptist Church, the second oldest and largest black Baptist Church on Amelia Island, was founded on May 15, 1870 under the leadership of Reverend Lewis Cook (1834-1880). He and 69 parishioners held their first meeting in a stable ...

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Highest Elevation on Blue Ridge Parkway

6053 Ft.

Highest elevation

Blue Ridge Parkway

Motor Road.

United States Department of the Interior

National Park Service

Marker is on Blue Ridge Parkway (at milepost 431), 8 miles south of Lake Logan Road (North Carolina Route 215), on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

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Pook's Turtles

Did you Know?

An ironclad was a wooden warship of the 19-century having iron or steel armor plating. The Confederate's ironclad ,"Monitor" (formerly Merrimack"), and the Union's ironclad, "Virginia" fought off the coast of Virginia in March of 1862. However, these ...

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Madame Josephine Felix

Josephine Felix arrived from France in 1852, one of the first settlers in Salt Spring Valley. Soon widowed, she established a waystation at the junction of the Angels and Central Ferry Roads. She wed neighbor Alban Hettick and the couple ...

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