Dr. Warburton’s Office

Home to an Early Santa Clara Valley Physician

Doctor Henry Hulme Warburton was one of the first physicians in the Santa Clara Valley. Born in Staffordshire, England in 1819, he emigrated to the United States in 1844. Warburton was a surgeon ...

Col. Percival Pierce Butler

1761 - 1821

[Marker Front:]

Col. Percival Butler was appointed Ky.'s first adjutant gen. in Gov. Isaac Shelby's first term. Born in Penn., he was with Washington at Valley Forge and Lafayette at Yorktown. Immigrated to Jessamine Co., Ky., then moved to ...

O’Brien’s

Candies – Ice Cream

Acclaimed as “the prettiest and most attractive candy store on the Pacific Coast. O’Brien’s Candy Store was more than a business to San Joseans, it was an institution – the natural spot to stroll to after a ...

Bird in Hand

Newtown Heritage Walk No. 34

The Bird in Hand (formerly the "Red Lion Inn" and "Old Frame House") has played a rich and diverse role in the history of Newtown. There is record of a tavern on this site dating ...

Bolmer Farm House - 1754

This remodeled farm house is the last of the farm houses built by members of the Bolmer family. Settling here before 1799, the Bolmers were the first early Dutch settlers in the fertile Washington Valley. Robert and Marie Bolmer had ...

Old Webster School

Built by the citizens of Markleeville in 1882 it remained in operation until 1929 when the new Webster School was completed. In 1966, with the old school on the verge of total destruction, the Historical Society of Alpine County began ...

Orleans School Bell

This bell rung in the Orleans Academy building when built in 1864, remained in the enlarged public school building until it was razed in 1965.

Marker is on South Maple Street north of West Washington Street, on the left when traveling ...

February 9, 1778

Sixteen American soldiers, guarding military uniforms being manufactured on these premises were overpowered by a raiding party of forty enemy cavalrymen and infantrymen.

In the heroic but hopeless defense of their post, five guards were killed by gunfire, four ...

Last Land Battle in War of 1861-65

The last important land battle of the War Between the States was fought here April 16, 1865, resulting in the capture of Columbus by Federal forces.

The engagement began directly west of Columbus in Alabama and ended on the Georgia ...

Hanover Presbyterian Church & Unknown Continental Soldiers

Erected

to mark the site

of the original

Hanover

Presbyterian Church

built in 1755.

Also in memory of the

Unknown Continental Soldiers

who died here when

the church was used

as a hospital during

the Revolutionary War.

Marker is at ...