Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot

Historic Brownsville Museum

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Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot

Official Historical Medallion, Texas Historical Commission

This depot was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1928 as part of its extension into the Rio Grande Valley. A fine example of Spanish colonial revival ...

Frontenac

This scenic Mississippi River site provided Native Americans food, shelter, and transportation for over 9,000 years. Count Frontenac, the Governor of New France, sponsored the first European explorers to this area in 1680. James (Bully) Wells established a fur trading ...

Lord Howe’s Grave

On October 3rd, 1889, a workman digging a trench opened by mere accident across the street from this point, a grave which contained the skeleton of a man, and within this grave found, at its head, a stone, now ...

Fort Blair West Breastworks

The west wall of the breastworks had been removed the day before the attack in order to enlarge the encampment to make room for more than 100 additional cavalry troops which had arrived under the command of Lt. Pond.

Marker can ...

War of 1812 Memorial

[First Tablet, Lower Tablet Facing East]:

War of 1812 Memorial

Dedicated on Aug. 5, 2006

Original monument was dedicated

In 1908 at W. Jefferson Ave.

Near Gibraltar Road by

Dr. Hal C. Wyman

Moved in 1958-1959 to

Parsons School in ...

Lindsey Springs Logging Camp

The naturally occurring Lindsey Springs, located approximately 3/4 of a mile northeast of this location, became the site in 1899 of the Southern Pine Lumber Company's first logging camp. The springs provided an important water source for this vital camp, ...

Bridgeport Chronicle-Union

On this site stood the original office of the Bridgeport Chronicle - Union newspaper. In 1880, while still publishing the "Bodie Chronicle", the Folger Brothers, Robert and Alex, started the "Bridgeport Union". The first number of the Bridgeport paper appeared ...

The History of Franklin Court

In this yard, now known as Franklin Court, formerly stood the home of Benjamin Franklin. In his later years, Franklin also built three Market Street houses and a Print Shop for his printer-publisher grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache.

Franklin first saw ...

Mother's Day In Albion / Mother's Day

Marker Front:

On May 13, 1877, the second Sunday of the month, Juliet Calhoun Blakeley stepped into the pulpit of the Methodist-Episcopal Church and completed the sermon for the Reverend Myron Daugherty. According to local legend, Daugherty was distraught because ...

10th Pennsylvania Reserves

39th Pennsylvania Infantry

(Front):10th Pennsylvania Reserves

39th Penna. Infantry

3d Brigade 3d Division 5th Corps

July 2d occupied this line

of stone fence and remained from

5 p.m. until close of the battle.

Present at Gettysburg 28 officers 392 men

Killed 2 men

Wounded 3 men

Total 5.

(Right):Mustered in June ...