John Muir at Cedar Key

John Muir, noted naturalist and conservation leader, spent several months in Florida in 1867. He arrived at Cedar Key in October, seven weeks after setting out from Indiana on a "thousand-mile walk to the Gulf." Muir's journal account of his ...

Altamont – Confederate Railroad Raid

On April 26, 1863, a detachment of Confederate Capt. John H. McNeill’s partisan rangers attacked the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad facilities here at Altamont. They were part of a larger group that entered Oakland that Sunday as Confederate Gen. William ...

The Observatory

Latitude Observatory Park

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Assistant, Edwin Smith or Rockville, Maryland, was assigned to oversee construction and operations at the Gaithersburg Observatory. Original plans for the Ukiah and Gaithersburg Observatories, prepared by the Central Bureau in Germany, specified ...

Nolan Park

in honor of

Dennis E. Nolan

Major General

Commander of

The United States First Army

Governors Island, 1933-1936

Dedicated August 10, 1956

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Bloody Brook Monument

Erected August

1838

—

On this Ground Capt. Thomas Lathrop and eighty four men under his command, including eighteen

teamsters from Deer field, conveying stores from that town to Hadley, were ambuscaded by about

700 Indians, and the Captain and seventy six men ...

North Bend

Three miles south is North Bend, a Greek Revival residence built in 1819. Sarah Minge, sister of President William Henry Harrison, and her husband, John, built the original portion of the house located on Kittiewan Creek. Thomas H. Wilcox greatly ...

Birthplace of Famed Song

It was in the spring of 1911 that two freshmen at Albion College, Byron D. Stokes and F. Dudleigh Vernor, wrote the words and music for a song they called "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi." The song made a hit ...

The Rosario Defense Line

Presidio San Agustín

The Rosario Defense LineThis earthen embankment re-creates a section of the defense wall that protected Spanish St. Augustine against attack in the 1700s. After crossing the natural moat on the outside of the wall formed by Maria ...

9-11 Memorial

In memory of those

who lost their lives

in New York City,

Washington, D.C.,

and Pennsylvania on

11 September 2001

Marker is on South Lawe Street north of East South Island Street, on the right when traveling south.

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William Andrew Mauney House

An early settler to Kings Mountain, William Andrew Mauney built a store on this site circa 1870. When Mr. Mauney moved his business to a location in downtown Kings Mountain, he turned the store ninety degrees and added a two ...