Faber Park and Pool

4.25 Acres

Faber Park and Pool is located on what was once the north shore home of the Faber family. Their lead pencil manufacturing company was begun by Caspar Faber in Stein, Germany in 1761. A century later, his descendant Eberhard ...

First Baptist Church / Village Cemetery

First Baptist Church

Founded in 1823 as Edgefield Baptist Church, with Basil Manly, Sr., Pastor, Matthew Mims, Clerk, and Arthur Simkins, Moderator, this church led in the establishment here in 1826 of Furman Academy and Theological Institution. William Bullein Johnson, pastor ...

Site of Alabama's Statehouse

1820 - 1825

This structure collapsed in 1833 and its fallen remains were reportedly heaped into a railroad embankment. Consequently, we have no picture of the Statehouse that was drawn by someone who actually saw the building. Any modern picture you ...

Site of Silver Bridge Collapse

Site of

Silver Bridge Collapse

when 46 lives were lost

Dec. 15, 1967

Mayor

John C. Musgrave

City Clerk

Patty Burdette

City Council

Jack L. Fowler • Harry N. Rhodes

Russell V. Holland • Leonard F. Riffle

Howard Lee Miller • Delvin J. Simms

Dave Reynolds • Wallace Smith, Jr.

Howard Price • ...

Fort Hays

This noted U.S. Army post was established in 1865 as a headquarters for troops given the task of protecting military roads, guarding the mails and defending construction crews on the Union Pacific Railway. Fort Hays also served as a ...

French Leaden Plate

Washed out at Point Pleasant 1849, Planted 1749

In the year 1749, reign of Louis XV, King of France, we, Celeron, commandant of a detachment sent by Monsieur the Marquis de La Gelissoniere, Commandant-General of New France - to reestablish tranquility ...

Site of King George’s Tavern

From 1724 known as King George’s Tavern. On its sign was painted King George’s portrait, supplanted during the revolution, by the portrait of George Washington. For many years the old hostelry was the meeting place for political rallies and used ...

Pueblo of Ziá

In 1583 Antonio de Espejo recorded this pueblo as one of five in the Province of Puname. Following the sacking of Zia by Spanish troops in 1689, the pueblo was reestablished, but never attained its former size. The Zia ancient ...

Fort Worth

"Where the West Begins"

Founded June 6, 1849, as frontier post of Co. F, 2nd Dragoons, 8th Dept., U.S. Army. The commander, Maj. Ripley Arnold, named camp for his former superior officer, Maj. Gen William Jenkins Worth. In 4 years of ...

"The Great Chief Justice"

Born in Fauquier County, John Marshall was admitted to the bar there in 1780 following service in the Revolutionary army. In 1783 he married Mary Willis Ambler and lived the remainder of his life in Richmond where until 1797 he ...