Shafter Cotton Research Station

The Shafter Cotton Research Station, established here in 1922 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, developed the "Acala" varieties which were exceptionally well suited to the San Joaquin Valley. The quality of the acala cottons and the marketing advantage of ...

Bedford County WWII Memorial

June 6 1944

Erected by the Parker-Hoback Post, 29th Division Association, in memory of the Bedford County men of the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division, who gave their lives in the preparation for and the participation in the Normandy Invasion and ...

Pioneer Monument / California Native Americans

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Pioneer Monument

Sculptor, Frank Happersberger

(1859-1932)

Dedicated to the City of San Francisco on November 29, 1894, the Pioneer Monument was a gift of philanthropist James Lick. Lick, who died in 1876, left $100,000 to the City ...

Unknown Soldiers of the Continental Army

In memory of the

many unknown soldiers

of the

Continental Army

who died from sickness and

exposure while encamped in

these fields before the

Battle of Trenton and were

buried at this spot

Christmas Day 1776.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of the North Ways (1901)

Two building slips, or ways, were important features of the shipyard. The North Ways were prepared as a second building slip, on land purchased in a 1901 expansion. They measured at least 350' long by 50' wide - the largest ...

Bellefonte Air Mail Field

The initial stop on the first scheduled west-bound air mail flight was made here by Pilot Leon D. Smith on December 18, 1918. The site for the field was chosen by pioneer aviator Max Miller and was in regular use ...

Safety Follows Wisdom

Portland Cement Association Safety Trophy

Awarded Columbia Cement Division, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., for a Perfect Safety Record in 1931.

Reawarded for a Perfect Safety Record in

1935 1956 1966 1974

1947 1958 1969 1975

1948 1960 1970

1950 1961 1971

...

The Bascom Affair / Bascom-Cochise Meeting Site

The Bascom Affair

On February 4, 1861, 2nd Lt. George Bascom, and his detachment of 54 men encamped two hundred yards east of here. Bascom’s mission was to find Cochise, recover a kidnapped boy and return livestock assumed taken by the ...

Trunk of the Three Mile Oak

Upper Plaque: This oak tree planted in 1967 perpetuates the memory of the original Three Mile Oak which stood nearby as explained in the marker below.

Lower Plaque: Trunk of the Three Mile Oak

Under this tree passed General George Washington December ...

The Moses Carver Farm

The farm on which George Washington Carver grew up was owned by Moses and Susan Carver. While George’s path in life took him far from here, he considered this farm his first home.

In the 1830s, Moses and Susan Carver moved ...