First Capitol of Kansas

This building was erected in 1855 in the now extinct town of Pawnee for the first legislature of the territory of Kansas. The members were mostly Missourians, fraudulently elected in an effort to make Kansas a slave state. They came ...

Fallen Warrior Memorial - 2nd BCT

Fallen Warrior Memorial Symbolism

Fallen Warrior Memorial

2nd BCT

The 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division (2/28 BCT), Pennsylvania Army National Guard, was mobilized January 2005 to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. Known as the "IRON BRIGADE," it marked the division's largest mobilization ...

USMA Class of 1980 Memorial

Presented to

the United States Military Academy by the Class of 1980 ~ in memory of

Cadet Richard Mull

1958 – 1977

Cadet Charles Pendleton

1958 – 1978

Cadet Charles Montoya

1958 – 1979

Cadet Reginald Johnson

1958 – 1980

[ Rear Inscription : ]

“This will remain the Land ...

Ferdinand Foch

Commander-in-chief of Allied armies, 1918, made a speech at the Union County Courthouse, on December 9, 1921.

Marker is at the intersection of North Hayne Street (State Road 207) and West Jefferson Street (State Road 200), on the right when traveling ...

The Name "Edgefield"

The origin of the name "Edgefield" is shrouded in mystery. There are six principle theories as to how the name may have come to be applied to this county and town:

(1) Robert Mills, in his 1826 Statistics of South Carolina, ...

Fort Riley

Here where the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers unite to form the Kansas, Fremont's expedition of 1843 camped and reported great numbers of elk, antelope and Indians. In 1852 the army selected the site for a Western outpost, temporarily called ...

Chambers Stamp Factory

Two miles northeast, at Lodge, stood the Chambers Stamp Factory, owned by the same family for our generations. Founded in Washington, D.C., about 1830 by Benjamin Chambers, Sr., an engraver and inventor of a breech-loading cannon, the company specialized in ...

Vanguard of Freedom

Bicentennial 1775 - 1975

Dedicated on June 15, 1975 to the gallant soldiers of the United States Army who for 200 years have died in defense of their country.

Marker can be reached from Huebner Road, on the left when traveling west. ...

USMA Class of 1941 Memorial

Dedicated to the Army and Army Air Corps

members of the USMA Class of 1941

who gave their lives during

World War II & The Korean War

Howard F. Adams Captain, Air Corps Over Germany 26 Feb 43 • Emory A. Austin, Jr. Captain, ...

Cholera Epidemic of 1855

In this area rest the remains of approximately 100 soldiers, civilian workers, and their dependents who perished at Fort Riley, Kansas Territory, during the cholera epidemic in the summer of 1855. These soldiers and civilian workers were engaged in the ...