California, 31st State

September 9, 1850

1579 • Francis Drake sailed along coast and claimed California for England

1848 • James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill

1849 • The Gold Rush began. California became known as the Golden State. Its gold fields attracted thousands ...

Moses J. Church

The Father of Fresno Irrigation. He was born in New York State in 1819, became a blacksmith and emigrated to California in 1852. He came to Fresno County in 1868 and employed by A. Y. Easterby, built the first irrigation ...

Unknown Early Settlers

Originally buried in Cleveland's first cemetery whose remains now rest in this lot.

Public reburial October 12, 1939 by Western Reserve Early Settlers Association.

Marker is on East 9th Street.

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Smugglers’ Trail

Smugglers once crossed this area with mule trains of contraband from Mexico, to be traded for merchandise in Arizona. In the summer of 1881, a group of Mexican smugglers was killed in Skeleton Canyon by members of the Clanton gang, ...

Bucklands Station Famous Historical Point

On Central Overland Route For Supplies to Emigrants, Pony Express, Stage Coaches, Ranches & Travelers, from 1859 to 1900's

Marker can be reached from Alternate U.S. 95 8.5 miles from U.S. 50.

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Sulphur Springs

This valley owes its name to the two springs located one mile north of this monument. From 400 A.D. to 1450 A.D. Indigenous Indians farmed the region. Their bedrock mortar pits remain on the nearby hill. Later Chiricahua Apaches, Spaniards, ...

Journalist Dorothy Fuldheim

One of America's most admired women, pioneer television newscaster Dorothy Snell Fuldheim (1893-1989) began her career as a lecturer in the 1920s and entered broadcasting with a biographical series on WTAM radio in Cleveland. In 1947, Fuldheim joined Ohio's first ...

North West Canal

Approved by the Virginia General Assembly in 1818, the North West Canal was constructed by the Dismal Swamp Canal Company between 1828 and 1830. The canal was intended for carrying timber and farm products between the Dismal Swamp Canal and ...

The Jeff Davis Artillery

Rodes's Division - Ewell's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps Rodes's Division

Carter's Battalion Reese's Battery

The Jeff Davis Artillery

Four 3 inch Rifles

July 1 Was placed in position near here in support of Doles's Brigade against two Divisions of the Eleventh Corps which ...

Heritage Park

Located within Daniel Pratt Historic District, this park overlooks Autauga Creek and the manufacturing complex around which this New England style village developed. Daniel Pratt founded Prattville in 1839, and patterned the town after those of his native New Hampshire. ...