Houston Yacht Club

The Houston Yacht Club was organized in 1897 by a group of prominent citizens. Members met in the Binz Building in downtown Houston and were led by the first Commodore, Dan E. Kennedy. After Kennedy's death in 1904, the boatmen ...

San Miguel Cemetery District

On October 18, 1886 the railroad arrived at the lands of Mission San Miguel. The railroad provided transportation to take San Miguel cattle and produce to market, it also provided lumber and store goods to fuel the expanding population. The ...

Confederate Memorial 1861-1865

Jacksonville, Florida

(East face)

To the Soldiers of Florida

This shaft is by a comrade raised in testimony of his love, recalling deeds immortal, heroism unsurpassed.

With ranks unbroken, ragged, starved and decimated the southern soldier, for duty's sake, undaunted ...

Camp Ford Stockade

Confederate Prisoner of War Camp

The initial prisoners to arrive at Camp Ford were kept in the open with no stockade. Panic resulted with the arrival with over 600 prisoners October 23, 1863. The Camp Commander, Col. R.T.P. Allen, with only ...

From Schoolhouse to Town Hall

A Building on the Move

The building to your left was originally built as a schoolhouse in 1880 in nearby Silver Reef. It also served in the mining boomtown as a place for community dances and other gatherings.

Soon after the schoolhouse ...

Wells Fargo and Company Express Building

Utah Historic Site

Built in 1877

Architect unknown

Used by Wells Fargo Company and by St. George merchants, Woolley, Lund and Judd.

Marker is on Wells Fargo Road, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Civilian Conservation Corps, Leeds, Utah

The Leeds CCC camp opened in October 1933 under the direction of the Dixie National Forest Service on the site of an existing ranger station. Leeds, a town of less than 200, more than doubled with the opening of the ...

St. John's Church / Bishop Lawrence J. Scanlan

Silver Reef, UT

St. John's Church

After his 1877 visit to Silver Reef, Father Scanlan appointed Father Dennis Kiely as the local pastor. The increasing Catholic population continued to ask for a church. Father Scanlan returned in November 1878 to accomplish this ...

The Tithing Lot and Relief Society Hall

Tithing Lot - Pioneer William Robb Jr. built a rock house, consisting of two rooms with a cellar, diagonally across the street from this location. It was later sold to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became ...

Old Comedy Hall

The Parowan Dramatic Association was organized in 1851 with Edward Dalton president, Jessie V. Smith, Joseph, Jane and Annie Fish, David and Wm. Cluff, Wm. C. McGregor and Ed Ward, members. Plays were produced in Log Council House and Rock ...