Manuel Flores

In this vicinity, Manuel Flores, an emissary of the Mexican government, with a small group of men conveying ammunition to the Indians on the Lampasas River, was surprised by Rangers under Lieutenant J. O. Rice in May, 1839, and killed.

Marker ...

Site Of The First Mission In Texas

Corpus Christi de la Ysleta del Sur

Founded in 1682 By Don Antonio de Otermin and Padre

Fray Francisco Ayeta O.F.M.

for the civilizing and Christianizing of the Tigua Indians.

Pueblo Revolt refugees, formally located at La Ysleta,

New Mexico. Building damaged by ...

The Oak Tree Engagement and the Battle of the Short Hills

The Oak Tree Engagement of June 26, 1777 took place in Edison Township near this marker. The engagement was one of four near continuous skirmishes that were known as the Battle of the Short Hills.

In late 1776, the revolutionary forces ...

The Muskingum River Flows North

Thirty-thousand years ago, the streams and rivers in this area flowed north. A ridge extended across what is today the Muskingum-Morgan County line about seven miles south of the Philo Lock. When the Wisconsin Glacier moved down from Canada 25,000 ...

Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

Near here Governor Alexander Spotswood and his troop of gentlemen, Knights of the Golden Horseshoe, on their way to explore the land beyond the mountains, camped on August 31, 1716.

Marker is at the intersection of James Madison Highway (U.S. 15) ...

27th Missouri Infantry

U.S.A.

27th MO Inft y.

U.S.A.

Gained and occupied this

position in advance

of Osterhaus Division.

Nov. 25, 1863

Marker is on West Crest Road north of Chickamauga Avenue (U.S. 27), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Doctor Francis' Office

This general practitioner's office is the only remaining structure of its type in northeast Alabama. It was built on the court-house square about 1850 by Dr. J. C. Francis, a beloved family doctor who served Jacksonville for more than 50 ...

McPherson’s Troops at Shallow Ford

Here, in 1824, Jacob R. Brooks established a ferry at Shallow Ford where the old Hightower Trail crossed the Chattahoochee.

July 10, 1864. Dodge’s 16th A.C., after a forced march of 27 mi. from the Sandtown Rd. (near Mableton), via Marietta, ...

Front Entrance

The Rosencrantz family, like other upper-middle class families, worked hard but could sometimes take time to sit on the front porch and visit with neighbors. Some of the stonework visible in this photograph (circa 1890) was original to the 18th ...

A Portal of the Past

Sonora Chinatown

This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Chinese Pioneers who for years made this section their home. It was a city within a city whose residents were isolated from their surrounding neighbors by a barrier of language, ...