Ferryboat Binghamton

Built for the Hoboken Ferry Company and launched in1905, it plied the Hudson River between Hoboken and Manhattan (Barclay St.) for 62 years. This double-ender steamboat was designed to carry 986 passengers and a number of vehicles. It was in ...

Gateway to the Rockies

Tall trees, short trees, shrubs, grasses and flowering plants -- mountains, canyons, river bottoms, and prairies -- all intermingle to form the landscape. The greater the variety of landforms and vegetation, the more homes or habitats there are for wildlife.the ...

Erie & Kalamazoo Railroad

[Front Side of Marker]

The first railroad operated west of the Alleghenies, the Erie and Kalamazoo, was chartered on April 22, 1833 to connect Port Lawrence (later named Toledo) with the Kalamazoo River via Adrian. A horse-drawn car made the ...

America’s 3rd Oldest Courthouse

This courthouse has been used continuously for judicial purposes for more than 250 years — only two other courthouses in the entire country have a longer history. Built in 1757, almost 20 years before the beginning of the Revolutionary War, ...

Waterborn Services Memorial

Dedicated to the men whom have given their lives in the Waterborn services.

Navy, Marine Corps, & Coast Guard

Marker can be reached from SW Water Street near Hamilton Blvd.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bragg's Headquarters

Fateful Decisions at Stones River

(Preface): Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans led the Army of the Cumberland from Nashville toward Murfreesboro in December 1862, while Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg and the Army of the Tennessee occupied the town to protect the ...

John Paul Jones Memorial

[North Face inscriptions - above and beneath Captain Jones' statue:]

John Paul Jones

1747-1792

First to compel foreign man-of-war to strike colors to the Stars and Stripes.

[South Face inscriptions - above and beneath a bas relief rendering of Captain Jones raising the United ...

Headquarters

Army of Tennessee

Headquarters

Army of Tennessee

General Braxton Bragg

Jan 1. 2. and 3 1863

Marker is on West College Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Cleburne Outflanked Left Wing, 17th A.C.

July 22, 1864. The left wing (Giles Smith’s div., 17th A.C.) of McPherson’s Army of the Tenn. (US) occupied an intrenched line on Flat Shoals Rd. between Leggett’s Hill & Glenwood, where it hooked eastward, facing to the south.

Gen. P.R. ...

Sturgeon Point & Kennons

Charles City County, Virginia

Kennons originally took its name from the plantation of the Kennon family. Kennons Creek, earlier known as David Jones Creek, served as a boundary for the earlier Wallingford Parish. Kennons Landing was the terminus for the ...