Massacre of Wounded Knee

[Front side]:

Dec. 29, 1890, Chief Big Foot, with his Minneconjou and Hunkpapa Sioux Band of 108 warriors, 250 women and children were encamped on this Flat, surrounded by the U.S. 7th Cavalry (470 soldiers) commanded by Col. Forsythe.

The "Messiah ...

The Northwest Ordinance, 1787 / The Ohio Company Purchase

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The Northwest Ordinance, 1787

Following the establishment of the public land system in 1785, the Continental Congress appointed a committee, chaired by James Monroe, to establish government in the new territory north and west of the Ohio River. Drafted ...

Home of Dr. Samuel Mudd

(1833–1883)

John Wilkes Booth rested here for several hours on April 15, 1865, after receiving treatment for his broken leg.

Marker is on Dr. Samuel Mudd Road (Maryland Route 232) south of Poplar Hill Road (Maryland Route 382).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Northwest Ordinance Sesquicentennial Columns

Here the new United States of America found, through Northwest territory, the first and common offspring of thirteen discordant and disputatious states, her formula to eminence among all the governments of mankind.

To those unfamed citizens who conceived a new purpose ...

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd

Treating an Assassin

This house was the home of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd and his wife, Sarah Frances Dyer. Early on the morning of April 15, 1865, John Wilkes Booth arrived here with a companion, David E. Herold, and asked Mudd ...

Site Of Franklin Hall

(The Mound)

Franklin Hall, and early University dormitory designed by Capt. William Nichols, was erected on this site in 1835. Was one of the buildings destroyed by the Union raid on April 4, 1865. After Civil War the remains of structure ...

Yorba-Slaughter Adobe

This example of early California architecture was built in 1850-53 by Raimundo Yorba. Purchased in 1868 by Fenton Mercer Slaughter, it was preserved as a memorial to him by his daughter, Julia Slaughter Fuqua.

Marker is on Pomona Rincon Road north ...

Hanging Tree

On this tree, early morning Nov. 26, 1897 occurred the blackest episode in the history of Nevada. Adam Uber of Calaveras Co. Cal. was forcefully taken from jail abused and hanged by an angry mob, for the pistol killing of ...

Rotunda Plaza

The Rotunda Plaza is dedicated to

John H. and Carolyn Cobb Josey

(Classes of 1950 and 1951, respectively)

In recognition of the establishment in 1992 of the

John H. and Carolyn Cobb Josey Library Endowment Fund,

ensuring continued excellence of library and information

services to ...

Mojave Road

Long ago, Mohave Indians used a network of pathways to cross the Mojave Desert. In 1826, American trapper Jedediah Smith used their paths and became the first non-Indian to reach the California coast overland from mid-America. The paths were worked ...