Buffalo Park

The City of Flagstaff purchased this land in 1959 from the United States Forest Service.

In 1964, James Potter, Sr., long-time resident, entrepreneur and Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce President, led the effort to form a non-profit organization, lease the site from ...

The Battle of Brandy Station

The Race for Fleetwood Hill

Here the old Carolina Road crosses the southern part of Fleetwood Hill, some of the highest ground in the area. On the slope ahead of you Maj. Gen. James Ewell Brown (J.E.B.) Stuart, commander of Robert ...

Beale Wagon Road

1857 - 1882

From 1857-60, Lt. Edward F. Beale and crew of 100 men completed the first federal highway in the southwest from Fort Smith, Ark. to Los Angeles, Calif. at a cost of $200,000. The wagon road was used extensively ...

Dawes Arboretum Hedge

“Dawes Arboretum”

Hedge Lettering, 2,040 ft.

planted 1930 & 40; replanted 1990 & 91

The Dawes Arboretum

These evergreens forming the word “Dawes”

were planted by and dedicated to

Volunteers of the Dawes Arboretum

October 14, 1990

Courtesy hmdb.org

Beard-Green Cemetery in the Dawes Arboretum

Spring, 1800, Benjamin Green and family become the first legal settlers in Licking County, followed by the Stadden family; Col. John Stadden marries Elizabeth Green on Christmas Day. Spring, 1801, clearings cut for cabins on Hog Run; Johnny Appleseed plants ...

The Battle of Brandy Station

The Struggle for Fleetwood Hill

After Col. Wyndham's assaults, Col. Judson Kilpatrick's Federal brigade crossed the Orange and Alexandria Railroad and stormed Fleetwood Hill from the southeast. The fight for Fleetwood Hill - a classic cavalry battle fought on horseback - ...

Balladry

English folklorist Cecil Sharp in 1916 collected ballads in the "Laurel Country." Jane Gentry , who supplied many of the songs, lived here.

Marker is at the intersection of Walnut Street and Lance Avenue on Walnut Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The First Capitol of the Republic of Texas

Near site of The First Capitol of the Republic of Texas

About 1833 Leman Kelsy built a story-and-a-half clapboard structure near this location. When Columbia became capital of the Republic of Texas in 1836, the building was one of ...

Dorland - Bell Institute

Founded as Dorland Institute in 1887 by Dr. and Mrs. Luke Dorland. Taken over by Presbyterian Church U.S.A. in 1893. Became Dorland-Bell Institute in 1918 when consolidated with Bell Institute from Jewell Hill. Moved to Asheville in 1942 as part ...

Homesite of Joseph Emerson Brown

Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894), born in Pickens District, South Carolina, moved to Union County, Georgia, as a boy. The old Brown home was on the present site of the Woody Gap School, opened in 1941 for mountain students. Brown worked ...