Captain George Vancouver Monument

Boat of Discovery

[Panel 1]:Captain George Vancouver Monument

October 31, 1792

Lt. William Broughton

Named This Area

For His Captain

Dedicated

October 31, 1992

[Panel 2]:Boat of Discovery

“…The real story of George Vancouver and other explorers of the Pacific Northwest is not in one great voyage. It is ...

Fort Tyler Cemetery

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One hundred feet east in brick walled enclosure are buried 76 brave men, Confederate and Federal, Killed or died of wounds in the siege of Fort Tyler.

This engagement occurred April 16,1865, a whole week after the surrender of General ...

Henry J. Kaiser

To Honor the Memory of

Henry J. Kaiser

The famous industrialist and philanthropist

who operated a studio and photo shop on this

site from 1901 to 1905

Brownell and Kaiser

"Meet The Man with a Smile"

He returned in June 1949 with Guy Lombardo

and two speed ...

Captain George Vancouver Monument Plaza

1792 Discovery

[Panel 1]:

Capt. George Vancouver, from King’s Lynn, England, at age 35 and with orders from the British Admiralty to explore and chart the West Coast of America, charted hundreds of miles of coast line from California to Alaska. His ...

Gen. Robert C. Tyler, C.S.A.

Colonel of the 15th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (June 1861). Brigadier General (February 1864), he fought with gallantry in the Battles of Belmont, Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Hoover’s Gap, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. In these engagements he was wounded three times and ...

The Last Battle of the French and Indian War and Public Memory

[Top half of Marker]

Erected 1898 by the Piqua Chapter,

of the Daughters of the American

Revolution in commemoration of

the last Battle of the French and

Indian War, fought near this spot,

1763.

[Bottom half of Marker]

This monument ...

Basking Ridge

A log Hospital for

Continental Army soldiers

was located on the

slope of this ravine.

A frame Presbyterian Church

stood at the top

of the hill near the famous

oak and burial ground.

Marker is on N Maple Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Trolley / Street Car Rails

The Girard Coal Belt

Electric Railway Company,

established March 14, 1907,

was purchased by

the Joplin & Pittsburg

Railway Company

January 15, 1930

Abandoned 1930

Rails unearthed in

Franklin, 2005

Marker is on 5th Street near Broadway Street (Business U.S. 69), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Harley H. Hall

Navy Captain

Harley H. Hall

F-4 Phantom

Listed P.O.W. 1-27-73

The last pilot shot down in Vietnam just 10 hours before final cease fire was signed.

Native of

Vancouver, Washington

Marker is on NE 139th Street near NE 20th Ave.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hereford Inlet Lighthouse

1874

This plaque was presented on June 3, 2006 by the New Jersey Sarah Soper Chapter of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century to recognize the unique architecture of the building and its importance as an aid to navigation.

Marker is ...