Power Block

City of Vancouver Heritage Building

This rare example of an art deco exterior employing colourful terra cotta with Egyptian overtones was designed by the architects of Vancouver's city hall as part of a 1929 building renovation. The interior structure dates from ...

Columbia Masonic Temple

Erected 1855

Razed 1891

Restored 1949 by the

Grand Lodge

F.&A.M. of California

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Washington Street and Parrotts Ferry Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

William C. Dobbins Highway

U.S. 76

Between Clinton

and Laurens

Named in 1979 in Honor

of

William C. Dobbins, Jr.

Member, South Carolina

House of Representatives

1957-62

Member, South Carolina

Senate

1965-68

Member, South Carolina

State Highways and Public

Transportation Commission

1975-79

For His Many Contributions

to the Cause of Good

Highways and the General

Welfare of His Community

and State.

A Dedicated Public Servant

Marker ...

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 ...

Kennebec River

This major waterway, although in places still undeveloped, remains an important artery for water traffic. The river flows 164 miles from its source at Moosehead Lake to the Atlantic Ocean, 12 miles south of here at Popham. Kennebec is a ...

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 ...

Patterson's Battery - Lane's Battalion

Anderson's Division - Hill's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Hill's Corps Anderson's Division

Lane's Battalion Patterson's Battery

Two Napoleons, Four 12 pounder Howitzers

July 2 Was detached from the Battalion in the morning together with the Howitzer of Ross's Battery and ordered into position here. ...

Knights Ferry Covered Bridge

Built in 1864, to replace the original bridge washed away by the flood of 1862. Fastened together with locust pins. A toll bridge until purchased by Stanislaus County in 1885.

Dedicated May 30, 1948

Rededicated May 2, 1988

Marker can be reached from ...

Black Hawks Outpost

August 2 1832 twenty

picked Sacs were station-

ed here to decoy the US

Army northward and per-

mit the Indian main body

with women and children

to escape across the riv-

er. Fourteen of the out-

post were shot here wh-

ile trying to surrender.

In 1846 LeGrand Sterling

found ...

First Fort Bowie

To your right, a spur trail follows a military road 300 yards to the first Fort Bowie ruins.

On July 28, 1862, a 100-man detachment of the 5th California Volunteer Infantry began construction of the primitive fort, completing it two weeks ...