Sacred Heart Church

Established 1860

In 1859 a small wood framed church was erected on this spot. The following year it was blessed and named St. Louis Church to honor Fr. Luis De Cancer, a Dominican missionary who was martyred on the shores ...

Ninth Massachusetts Battery

2nd Position

2nd Position

6 p.m.

July 2, 1863.

Ninth Mass. Battery

Capt. Bigelow

"By prolonge retired firing"

from the cross road 400 yds. distant

without infantry support before

Barksdale's Confed. Brigade.

Final stand made across this angle.

Marker is ...

Mountain Meadows Massacre Grave Site Memorial

Built and maintained by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Out of respect for those who died and were buried here and in the surrounding area following the massacre of 1857.

Marker can be reached from Utah Route ...

16th Massachusetts Volunteers

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

Sixteenth Massachusetts

1st Brigade 2nd Division 3rd Corps

Army of the Potomac

On this field July 2nd 1863

4 officers and 23 enlisted men

were killed

to whose memory this monument

is erected by the

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

16th Mass. Vols.

Marker is on Emmitsburg Road (Business ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre

Led by Captains John T. Baker and Alexander Fancher, a California-bound wagon train from Arkansas camped in this valley in the late summer of 1857 during the time of the so-called Utah War. In the early morning hours of September ...

11th Massachusetts Infantry

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Corps

Upon this spot stood the 11th Mass.

Regt. during the second day

battle of Gettysburg July 2, 1863

26 were killed 93 were wounded and 10 missing.

Assisted by the state

and generous friends, the survivors

of the ...

First Massachusetts Infantry Skirmish Line

Right of the

Skirmish Line

First

Massachusetts

Infantry

Left resting on

Spangler's Lane

11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. July 2, 1863

Loss on skirmish line

Killed 8, Died of wounds 2,

Wounded 32, Prisoners 10.

Total 52.

Marker can be reached from Emmitsburg Road (Business U.S. 15), on the right when traveling ...

First Massachusetts Infantry

First Brigade, Second Division

(Front):First Mass.

Infantry

(Back):On July 2, 1863

from 11 a.m. until 6:30 p.m.

the First Regiment

Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry,

Lieut. Col. Clark B. Baldwin commanding,

occupied this spot in support of its skirmish line

800 feet in advance, the Regiment subsequently took

position in the Brigade ...

The Sacramento, Placer and Nevada Railroad Right of Way

Here you can see the right of way of the Sacramento, Placer and Nevada Railroad. It was designed by Theodore Dehone Judah (March 4, 1826 – November 2, 1863) as Chief Engineer. Conceived in 1854 and constructed in 1861, it ...

Old Mission of the Sacred Heart

Opened for services in 1853, this is the oldest building in Idaho.

Black-robed Jesuits founded the mission on the St. Joe River in 1842, but moved here is 1846 and raised this imposing building in a complete wilderness. Dwellings and outbuildings ...