Civilian Conservation Corps

Roosevelt's New Deal included Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Begun in 1933, the Corps employed men throughout U.S. building roads and dams., and planting trees for flood control. Jobless boys ages 18-25 received three meals a day and usually $30.00 a ...

The Franklin Mountains

Cabeza de Vaca Peak, elevation 7,152, is eight miles north from where you stand on the scenic point. History records that these rugged limestone mountains, from which stones were hewn and spring water was drawn to build El Paso, were ...

CCC at Cumberland Falls

Some 80,000 Kentuckians served in Civilian Conservation Corps. Three camps located in area (Companies 509, 563, and 1578). All helped develop Cumberland Falls State Park, blazing foot trails, drawing maps, and erecting cabins. Men also built DuPont Lodge; original log ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

1773 the Treaty of Augusta

Bartram visited Wrightsborough

He described the view of high hills

and rich vales. He took on supplies.

Marker is on Wrightsboro/Stagecoach Road 4 miles west of U.S. 78, on the left when traveling west.

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The Rock House

This 18th Century stone dwelling is the only surviving house associated with the Colonial Wrightsboro Settlement (1768). Its builder, Thomas Ansley, used weathered granite, quarried in its natural form from the nearby geographical fall line, as building material. The granite, ...

Revolutionary War Honor Roll - Spencer County

In Honor of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Spencer County Indiana

(Row One) - - Thomas Blair • David Chancellor • Lodowich Davis • Abraham Hornbeck • James Jones • Thomas Jones

(Row Two) - - Zachariah Briant • William Kelly • ...

Original Date Stone

Eagle Lock Company

Original

Date Stone

from

Eagle Lock Company

Office Building

1889 - 1979

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Prospect Street, on the right when traveling west on Main Street.

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The Mayham Tower

Approximately at this place, May 28-31, 1781, a Mayham tower was erected by the American forces commanded by General Andrew Pickens and Lt. Colonel "Light Horse Harry" Lee, who was besieging Fort Cornwallis, located on the present site of Saint ...

El Paso Lower Valley Missions/ Cordova Island/ The City and Coun

El Paso Lower Valley Missions

Ysleta Mission -- 1681. Ysleta, the oldest community in Texas, claims the most steadily cultivated plot of land in the U.S.

Socorro Mission -- 1682. Regarded as the oldest active parish church in the U.S. Has a ...

Living Under the Guns

The citizens of occupied Murfreesboro had constant reminders of the powerful federal army entrenched here on their doorsteps. From January 1863 to April 1866, "the streets were crowded at all times with wagons and soldiers....Soldiers camping thick in and round ...