La Grange Gold Dredge Co. Camp

In this stand of eucalyptus trees lie the remains of the La Grange Gold Dredge Co. Camp. Here unmarried miners lived in a small community while they operated huge dredging machines near and on the Tuolumne River. The camp was ...

Diascund Bridge

As part of British Maj. Gen. William Phillips Apr. 1781 campaign in Virginia by the 21st he sent Lt. Col. Robert Abercrombie's Light Infantry from Barrett's Ferry, where it enters the James River, to destroy the state's naval docks, ships, ...

Bodey’s Grave

This marker placed in memory of William S. Bodey, discoverer of the Bodie mines, who lies buried on this hillside.

“Let him repose in peace among these everlasting hills”

Erected by Snowshoe Thompson Chapter ECV October 5, 1957

Marker can be reached from ...

Kansas Indian Reservations

When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, many different Indian nations occupied what is now the United States. European settlement gradually resulted in many of these native peoples being pushed to the west.

In 1825 the U.S. government resolved ...

State Game Farm

The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries established the first Virginia State Game Farm nearby in 1920. The state initially raised quail in captivity there to restock the birds throughout Virginia. The game farm was one of the earliest state ...

West Virginia/Highland County

Side A:West VirginiaWest Virginia was long a part of Virginia. Morgan Morgan began the settlement of the region in 1727. A great battle with the Indians took place at Point Pleasant, 1774. West Virginia became a separate state of the ...

Providence Forge

Here about 1770, Charles Jeffery Smith, a Presbyterian minister, settled and, with William Holt, built a forge for making farm implements. Francis Jerdone became a partner in 1771. A militia camp was established here in 1781, and Lafayette was here ...

Lutheran Pioneers

To the Glory of God

and in Memory of Lutheran Pioneers.

Erected by members and friends of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church

Winchester, Va. 1938.

These walls are the sacred ruins of the first Lutheran Church erected in Winchester - "Die teutsche Lutherische Gemeine in ...

City of Rehoboth Beach

On January 27, 1873, the “Rehoboth Beach Camp

meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal

Church” was incorporated by the Delaware

legislature for the purpose of establishing

“a permanent camp meeting ground and Christian

sea-side resort.” With coming of the railroad ...

First Bridgeport Courthouse

Located near this site was the first courthouse in the town of Bridgeport. Previously, the county courthouse was in Aurora (the county seat established in 1861) However, a state boundary survey completed in 1863 determined that town was actually in ...