I.O.O.F. Hall

Erected 1856

Purchased by

I.O.O.F. 1865

Dedicated as

Historical

Building

by

I.O.O.F. and

Trinity County

Historical Society

Marker is on Main Street (California Route 299), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Crash of Flight 307

March 7, 1950 at 9:02 PM

During its approach through a blinding snowstorm, NWA Flight 307 clipped its left wing on the flagpole at Ft. Snelling Cemetery. Captain Donald Jones struggled to maintain altitude as he circled around for another attempt. ...

Brady's Bluff

Brady's Bluff was designated a State Natural Area in 1952 to preserve the high quality ecological systems found here. This uncultivated 65 acre remnant is characterized by steep, dry prairies, exposed cliffs, and oak woodland. The bluff, a favorite hiking ...

The Pecos River in Literature and Folklore

Noted for mineral-thick waters and sudden floods, the Pecos River snakes through Texas on its way to the Rio Grande. Historian J. Evetts Haley and folklorist J. Frank Dobie, who called it “a strange river,” and a “barricade,” are among ...

Clifford Hall

Built by Richard Clifford in 1855. One of three two story Weaverville structures with outside circular staircases hand made by village blacksmiths. Once home of Mt. Bally Parlor No. 87, Native Sons of the Golden West.

Dedicated by Grand Parlor, Native ...

"Eureka, I found it"

shouted a small band of hardy pioneers in August of 1857. A spring of cool, clear water near this very spot. Abundant drinking water was a strong factor in search for a place to settle. They soon agreed that they ...

Greenwood County and the Bluestem Pasture Region of Kansas

This county lies almost wholly within one of the world's great beef cattle feeding grounds, the Bluestem pasture region of Kansas. The area, more popularly known as the Flint Hills, extends across the state from north to south in a ...

Redoubt No. 2 / Fort No Name

Federal Defenses of Aquia Creek Landing

Twelfth Corps / Army of the Potomac, USA

Stafford County, Virginia

Circa 1863

National Historic Registry

February 2006

Virginia Historic Registry

DHR # 089-5057/44ST0082

Marker is on Old Fort Lane 0.1 miles south of Courthouse Road (State Route 630), on the right ...

Co. F, 2nd Bn., 142nd Inf., 36th Div., Texas National Guard

The 36th Division of the U.S. Army served with distinction in World War II. When mobilized, Company F of the Division's 142nd Infantry consisted primarily of Randall County soldiers, including ten sets of brothers, as well as a father and ...

Site of an Early Barbed Wire Fence in the Panhandle

In the latter 1880's, when fencing was needed in the treeless Texas Panhandle, the solution proved to be barbed wire. Joseph F. Glidden of Illinois devised and by 1876 was manufacturing (with I.L. Ellwood) the first really practical barbed wire ...