Quartzite Boulder

of the Glacial Age

Donated for Bicentennial Year

1976 by

Mr. and Mrs. William P. McNamee

from their farm located in

the SE 1/4 of Sec. 8 Twp. 10 R-22-E

Leavenworth County

Kansas

Marker is at the intersection of 4th Street (U.S. 73) and Walnut Street, on the ...

Leavenworth County War Memorial

In Memoriam

The Doughboy statue was first erected at Victory Junction in 1921 in memory of the members of the military who died in World War I. It was dedicated November 11, 1928.

In 1941 the statue was moved to its present ...

Andrew Atkinson Humphreys

Cadet U.S. Military Academy July 1 1827, Brevet Second Lieutenant 2d U.S. Artillery July 1 1831, Second Lieutenant July 1 1831, First Lieutenant August 16 1836, Resigned September 30 1836, First Lieutenant Topographical Engineers U.S. Army July 7 1838, Captain ...

Elizabeth Moore at Dorchester Academy 1925-1932

Dorchester Academy

In 1925, Elizabeth B. Moore began her six-year tenure as Dorchester Academy's only female, African American principal. She insisted that both parents and community accept responsibility for supporting the school. She believed that charity and tuition breaks should be ...

Marley Neck School

This historic school is a significant example of a Rosenwald School design and represents a landmark era in black education in the period before federal support of local education. The school was built in 1927 with funds raised by the ...

Leavenworth County World War Memorial

1917 - 1919

Dedicated to the

Memory of our Boys

who made

The Supreme Sacrifice

in the World War

Byron H. Mehl • Ernest Bagwell

Anthony Blanchard • William E. Burns

Edward Blochberger • Riley D. Cunningham

David H. Crockett • Frank Curtis

George T. Ewing • Frank B. Hicks

Hans ...

Byron

Est. 1878

At this location, in 1878, a railroad station was established for the San Pablo and Tulare Railroad, which ran from Los Banos to Martinez, later to become part of the Southern Pacific Railway, for the purpose of taking on ...

St. James Lutheran Church

(Front text)

This church, the first Lutheran congregation in Sumter County, was organized in 1890 as a Home Mission, with six charter members and with Rev. F.W.E. Peschau as its first pastor. The congregation met in area churches, public buildings, ...

First Massachusetts Infantry Skirmish Line

Right of the

Skirmish Line

First

Massachusetts

Infantry

Left resting on

Spangler's Lane

11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. July 2, 1863

Loss on skirmish line

Killed 8, Died of wounds 2,

Wounded 32, Prisoners 10.

Total 52.

Marker can be reached from Emmitsburg Road (Business U.S. 15), on the right when traveling ...

Hotel Del Puerto

Former Site of Hotel Del Puerto

{picture of the former hotel}

Completed in 1910

Destroyed by fire 1996

Marker is at the intersection of Plaza Circle and West Las Palmas Avenue on Plaza Circle.

Courtesy hmdb.org