Mount Zion Cemetery

John Jennings (1802-1867), his wife Sarah C. (Sally) (1806-1879), and their family came to this area in 1851. The settlement which grew up around their farm became known as Jennings Creek community. After Burnet County was created in 1852, John ...

Mount Horeb Lodge

Chartered Jan. 21, 1854; met in log schoolhouse.

Erected own lodge hall 1856 on land given by Grand Master Sam Mather and B. K. Stewart. First floor used as church and school. A fire in 1915 razed hall. Lodge rebuilt here ...

Old Blenheim Bridge

Erected 1854 - 1855 by

Nicholas Montgomery Powers

Famous bridge builder

Born Pittsford, Vermont, August 30, 1817

Died Clarendon, Vermont, 1897

This bridge, 232 feet in length, the

longest covered single-span wooden

bridge in the world, was built for the

Blenheim Bridge Company, and was used

as a ...

Battersea

Battersea was the home of Colonel John Banister, a member of the House of Burgesses, the Revolutionary conventions, and the Continental Congress, as well as a framer of the Articles of Confederation and the first mayor of Petersburg. The elegant ...

Fort Henry

Four blocks north is the traditional site of Fort Henry, established under the Act of 1645. In 1646 the fort was leased by Abraham Wood. From it, in 1650, Wood and Edmund Bland set out on an exploring expedition; and, ...

Aleksandr Pushkin

During his all too brief life, Aleksandr Pushkin created a body of literary works of astonishing, life-affirming beauty. Deeply attached to his Russian and African roots, Pushkin’s genius was devoted to the values of honor, freedom and individual dignity.

GW's River Horse

Legend has it that the Potomac was once home to these wondrous beasts.

George and Martha Washington are even said to have watched them cavort in

the river shallows from the porch of their beloved Mount Vernon on summer ...

Doctor Eduard Dorsch

1822 - 1887

Although Dr. Dorsch, born in Bavaria, was a competent physician with degrees from Munich & Vienna, he was exiled when the 1848 Germain Revolution failed. In Monroe his love of freedom led him to make this home a ...

Knox Gun Crossing

Documentation shows that this

is the most likely site of

the Knox caravan trail

during the winter of 1775-1776.

Marker can be reached from Elm Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Warm Springs

July 26, 1847, President Brigham Young and others descended Ensign Peak and located Sulphur Springs. Thomas Bullock wrote: "About 1½ miles north of the Temple Block is a sulphur spring which I dug out and made into a beautiful place." ...