Smithville Colored School

A Julius Rosenwald School

Built in 1927, the Smithfield Colored School was one of sixteen schools for African Americans constructed in the county with financial assistance from the Julian Rosenwald Fund. The Smithville school was built near Colesville, Maryland to provide ...

De Forest Centennial

1863 - 1963

The Village of De Forest and the surrounding 2200 acres were once owned by Isaac N. De Forest. He purchased the site for $25.00 an acre in 1854 to farm and raise wheat. In 1856, before moving to ...

General Thomas Sumter

(Front text)

Monument to General Sumter stands 500 yards south. Born August 14, 1734, in Hanover County, Virginia, he was a frontiersman and Indian fighter. Coming to South Carolina by 1764, he became a planter. As Partisan leader and later ...

Midway Cemetery

Andrew A. (1816-1898) and Mary Barnes (1817-1857) McKee came to Texas in 1845 and purchased land here in 1854. Mary, who died in childbirth, was the first person buried here. According to local tradition, just prior to her death Mary ...

Our Bell

Windsor Township High School was built on this site in 1895 on land donated by Ole S. Holum. This bell, a gift of the community's grateful young people, was installed in June 1896. When Union High School replaced the original ...

Colonels’ Row

Governors Island

Once known as Brick Row or Regimental Row and now as Colonels’ Row, the group of eight brick houses in front of you was built by the Army between 1893 and 1917. Although all were built to standard ...

10th New York Cavalry

(Front):

10th New York

Cavalry

2rd. Brig. 2nd. Div.

Cavalry Corps

July 2nd. 1863 3 to 8 P.M.(Back):Casualties

Killed 2. Wounded 4.

Missing 3.

Total Loss 9.

Marker is on Hanover Road (Pennsylvania Route 116) 0.4 miles east of U.S. ...

To All Pioneers Who Passed This Way to Win and Hold the West

Route of Lander cut-off first government financed road in Wyoming. Officially called Ft. Kearney, South Pass and Honey Lake Road. Built in 1858 from Rocky Ridge to Ft. Hall to provide shorter route for emigrants.

Marker is on U.S. 191 1.7 ...

Currituck County Old Jail

Thursday the 31st December 1767

"On motion the following Bills were ordered to be read ... A Bill to impower the justices of Currituck County to build a prison pillary and stocks in the said county on the lot were the ...

Sand Spring - A Stop on the Oregon Trail

This site is a crossing of the Lander Cut-off, the northern fork of the Oregon Trail. Originally called the Fort Kearney-South Pass-Honey Lake Wagon Road when it opened in 1858, it was the first federally-funded road project west of the ...