Black Canyon Dam

Constructed in 1924, this $1,500,000 concrete gravity dam has a 1,039 foot crest and a 183 foot structural height.

A 29 mile canal, along with lesser ditches, serves 58,250 acres of Boise and Payette valley farms. A power plant at Black ...

The A. B. Graham Building

In this building, on January 15, 1902, A. B. Graham organized the first boys and girls agricultural club in the United States out of which grew the 4-H Clubs of America.

Marker is on Limestone Street, on the left when traveling ...

Dedicated to the Memory of Thornsbury Bailey Brown

1861 - 1865

Dedicated

to the memory of

Thornsbury Bailey

Brown

Co. B. 2nd Va. Vol. Inf.

First Union soldier killed

in the Civil War.

He lost his life on this spot

May 22, 1861.

Erected May 16, 1928 by

Betsy Ross Tent No. 10

West Virginia Department,

Daughters of Union Veterans

of the ...

Horse Shoe Bend

Gold was struck in Boise Basin (over the ridge to the east) in 1862, and the rush to these new mines came through here.

Traffic came by steamer up the Columbia to Umatilla, and thence overland. At first there were only ...

Amanda Berry Smith (1837-1915)

A renowned evangelist and singer, born a slave in Maryland. Her father bought the family's freedom, and they moved to a farm near here. While still a child she was converted at this church. She committed her life to missionary ...

Long Valley Ambush

While hunting stolen horses on Aug. 20, 1878, WM. Monday, Jake Groseclose, Tom Healy, & "Three Finger" Smith were ambushed in a rocky basin 9/10 mile by road from here.

Monday and Groseclose were killed immediately, and Healy wounded; Smith, "being ...

Sourgrass Bridge

1999

A cooperative project of

Sierra Pacific Industries

and

Stanislaus National Forest.

Site of original 1962

bridge destroyed in

mudslide January 1, 1997.

Marker is on Boards Crossing Road/Forest Route 5NO2 5 miles south of Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway (California Highway 4), on the left when traveling south. ...

A. B. Graham

Founder of 4-H

On January 15, 1902, Mr. Albert B. Graham called to order the first meeting of a “Boys' and Girls' Agriculture Experiment Club”. Before growing season 85 children from 10 to 15 years of age had already volunteered ...

The Old Braddock Road

This tablet marks a well preserved scar of the Old Braddock Trail, one of the most historic pioneer highways in all America.

Here, Nemacolin and his associates blazed the trail that became a National Highway.

Here, passed the laden pack horse train ...

The Birthplace of 4-H

A. B. Graham, superintendent of Springfield Township Rural schools in Clark County, established the "Boys and Girls Agricultural Experiment Club," which revolutionized agricultural education and non-formal youth development methods. The first meeting of the club, said to be the nation's ...