Helicopter Landing Pad

Navy purchased the land in 1943. Fixed wing planes used the airstrip into the 1950's. In 1952 Marine Helicopter pilots practiced take-offs and landings at this site up through the Vietnam era.

Marker can be reached from Brookhurst Street near Heil ...

Callens Home

Rene and Virginie Callens came here in 1910. He developed and farmed 60 acres. Present home of son Joseph R. Callens and family.

Marker is on Ellis Avenue just west of Jacaranda Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hungry, Wet and Cold

The historic Lewis and Clark Expedition travelled along this river in 1805. As the first white men to document this region, their maps, diaries, and encounters with different cultures forever changed the western landscape.

Cold, wet and hungry, Captain Clark's ...

Clifford A. Maughan P.F.C.

Clifford A. Maughan P.F.C.

F. Co., 505 PIR, 82nd Airborne

Born 1920 — Died 1990

This plaque is to commemorate

P.F.C. Clifford Maughan

who parachuted into the garden of this

house at approximately 01.45 hours

on the morning of 6th June 1944

He was taken prisoner by a ...

Omaha Beach

Les forces Alliées

débarquent sur cette

plage qu’elle nomment

Omaha Beach et libérent

l’Europe — 6 juin 1944

The Allied forces

landing on this

shore which they call

Omaha Beach liberate

Europe — June 6th 1944

East side:

1st US Infantry Division

—No mission too difficult

—No sacrifice too great . ...

Site of the McDonald Massacre

Pioneer preacher Matthew Taylor and the families of his daughter and two sons moved here in 1863 from their homestead on the Llano River. They built a cabin on this site near the source of the Pedernales River. In August ...

School Bell

In 1900, the Wardlow Family donated one acre of farm land for a school located on this site. This bell is from the first school in Fountain Valley.

Marker is at the intersection of Bushard Street and Talbert Avenue, on the ...

Helm Tract

The Helm Tract was recorded and laid out in 1923. Four streets ran north and south while Helm Street was the east - west connection.

Marker is at the intersection of South Third Street and Talbert Avenue, on the right when ...

The Beginning of Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service

One of the nation's earliest cooperative

extension offices was established in 1910

in Schellsburg, Bedford County, with A.B.

Ross as county agent. The innovative

program sought to educate farmers about

agricultural science to increase their

productivity. County extension offices are

now found throughout the U.S. Farmers and

other ...

Barry Scobee Mountain

1 Mi. North 6300 Ft. Elev.

Camp grounds and lookout post (1850's-1880's) for military, mail coaches, freighters, travelers, emigrants. Site of area's last Indian raid, 1881. Part of John G. Prude Ranch.

Named by Gov. John Connally Dec. 21, 1964, to honor ...