Merchiston Farm

1911 - 1959

Home of Martha Brookes Hutcheson, prominent early woman landscape architect who transformed this 18th century working farm into outstanding example of natural and classic landscape design.

Marker is on Longview Road, on the left when traveling north.

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555th Parachute Infantry Company

Triple Nickel Smoke Jumpers

Dedicated to the first black

parachute infantry

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The Original Seventeen*

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1st Assigned and Selected

1ST SGT. Walter Morris

1st to Take Qualification Jump

SSGT Calvin R. Beal

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SSGT. Hubert Bridges • SSGT. Lonnie M. Duke

SSGT. Robert F. Greene • SGT. Clarence H. Beavers

SGT. Ned ...

American Federation of Labor / United Mine Workers of America

American Federation of Labor

Since 1881

One this site, December 10, 1886, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Union merged with the trade unionists of the Knights of Labor to create the American Federation of Labor. Delegates elected Samuel Gompers president ...

Lion of Lucerne

In Memoriam

Our Confederate Dead

reverse of Memorial

1861 Gloria Victus 1865

Marker can be reached from Service Road 0.2 miles north of Business Missouri Highway 13, on the right when traveling south.

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Historic Fort Leavenworth

Oldest Army Post in Continuous Existence West of the Missouri River

Long before white men settled Kansas, traffic over the Santa Fe trail was so heavy that troops were detailed to protect it from the Indians. Fort Leavenworth, established in 1827 ...

Federal Armory

In an effort to increase the number of small arms for defense of the United States, George Washington established a Federal armory here in 1794. The rivers provided power for the machinery; surrounding mountains provided iron ore for gun barrels ...

Fisher's Hill

Union Flank Attack

1864 Valley Campaign

You are standing behind the extreme left flank of Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early's thinly stretched infantry line. At 4 p.m. on September 22, 1864, the soldiers here found themselves wrapped in a deadly pocket of ...

Fisher's Hill

Confederate Gibraltar

1864 Valley Campaign

This is Fisher's Hill, the Shenandoah Valley's "Gibraltar" - a commanding height that offered Confederate forces a superb defensive position.

Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early's beaten and bloodied army filed into position here on September ...

Mine Museum/Fashion Saloon

The mine museum, one of Jerome's oldest commercial buildings, was purchased by J.S. Hoover and A.C. Cordiner from G.A. Stoney in 1896. The building was destroyed in a fire in 1898. An architect from Los Angles built the present building ...

First Ironworks

1/2 mile north, in 1784, Col. James King, Revolutionary veteran who was at Yorktown, built an ironworks at the mouth of Steel's Creek. A later associate was Governor William Blount. With the King Ironworks was also the first nail factory ...