Big Pool Junction

Western Maryland Rail Trail

The eighteen miles of rails between

Hagerstown and Big Pool were the busiest

of the Western Maryland Railway. It was

here in 1892 that a connection was made with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad across the Potomac River at Cherry ...

First Baptist Church of Statesboro

Constituted September 3, 1882

Charter Members

Deacon Edmond Kennedy, Deacon A. B. Miller, W.B. Corey, Joseph Tillman, James Price, J. J. M. Griner, Moselle Miller, Mary Tillman, Elizabeth Kennedy, Mary J. Proctor

"We covenant with God and with each other … to live ...

Stites - Thomas Store

Circa 1849

First built as a grain sale and transfer station from the Morris to Lehigh Canal. Horse drawn trailers were driven into the store for grain loading. The grain was then put on canal boats and transported up the Lehigh. ...

Heritage Hill State Park

This park, built to portray and preserve Wisconsin's beginnings, is located on a site that is itself a part of history. On this 40-acre site stood Camp Smith--a temporary location of Fort Howard--part of the pioneer settlement known as Shantytown, ...

Mojave Runners

The Mojave Indian Runners helped get messages and information to far flung villages. They could run up to 100 miles a day barefoot and only donned sandals on very rocky or spiney [sic] areas. A group of them met Capt. ...

First Jewish Religious Services

In a second floor room in a store which stood on this location, forty pioneers of Jewish faith gathered on Yom Kippur (5610) September 26, 1849, and participated in the first Jewish religious services in San Francisco.

State Registered Landmark ...

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Nathan - Bedford - Forrest

MDCCCXXI - MDCCCLXVII

"Those hoof beats die not upon fame's crimson sod,

But will ring through her song and her story;

He fought like a Titan and struck like a god,

And his dust is our ashes ...

Bryce Airport

Bryce Airport's Vital Role

In this remote region, with major hospitals and airfields hundreds of miles away, Bryce Airport provides critical emergency support. Built in 1936 as an emergency landing strip for commercial airlines, the airport has served that purpose twice ...

Conner House

Headquarters and Refuge

Built of locally quarried sandstone about 1820 and later expanded, the Conner House was used during the Civil War by the Confederacy and then by the United States. After the First Battle of Manassas on July 21, 1861, ...

Battleship X

U.S.S. South Dakota

[Marker Front]

On June 7, 1941, Vera Bushfield, wife of the governor of South Dakota, smashed a bottle of champagne against the towering bow of a new battleship and proudly proclaimed, “I christen thee South Dakota!” While an ...