Fort Union National Monument

1851-1891

Once the largest post in the Southwest, Fort Union was established to control the Jicarilla Apaches and Utes, to protect the Santa Fe Trail, and to serve as a supply depot for other New Mexico forts. The arrival of the ...

Hurray for Hollywood

Historic Cannery Row

Ever since Thomas Edison’s movie camera captured those first quick, flickering moments of time, Hollywood has been coming to Monterey. More than 60 feature films have been shot in Monterey, and Cannery Row has been one of Hollywood’s ...

Monterey’s First Fishermen

Historic Cannery Row

For thousands of years prior to the arrival of Europeans in 1602, the Rumsien people fished Monterey Bay. These native people caught and used nearly every species of fish and shellfish found in the bay. Sea otters, sea ...

Felix K. Zollicoffer, "Zollie Tree"

Felix K. Zollicoffer: Brig. Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer, CSA, died here, Jan. 19, 1862, in Battle of Logan's Crossroads (Mill Springs). This Tenn. native was veteran of Seminole War, editor of Nashville Banner, and 3-term U.S. congressman. In heavy rain ...

Medal of Honor Fight, 1875

In the 1870s, the U.S. Army relied on Black Seminole (Seminole-Negro) Indian scouts in campaigns against raiding Native Americans along the Texas-Mexico border. In April 1875, Lt. John L. Bullis and three scouts -- Sergeant John Ward, Private Pompey Factor ...

Make Way for the Railroad

Riverfrontiers

By 1851 the railroad had arrived at Rochester. Rail transit had been developed in the year before and had finally spread through Pittsburgh and surrounding western Pennsylvania towns.

Railroads were built on flat surfaces - one commonly flat location was along ...

Colonel Thomas W. Ferebee

Family Homesite

Colonel Thomas W. Ferebee

Bombardier, Enola Gay

Dropped Atomic Bomb on

Hiroshima, Japan

August 6, 1945

Marker is on Wilkesboro Street (U.S. 64), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Elberton Granite Bicentennial Memorial Fountain

[Column - East/West Inscription]:

Elberton

Granite

Bicentennial

Memorial

Fountain

***

Commemorating

The

200th

Anniversary

of

American

Independence

***

1776 — 1976

[Column - North/South Inscription]:

Erected

During

1976

As A

Gift

to

Elberton

and

Albert County

by

Member-Firms

of the

Elberton Granite

Association, Inc

***

May this fountain serve

as an everyday reminder

of the Elberton Granite

Industry's interest in

this community and con-

tributions to this area's

economic and civic life.

[First Panel]:

1776 - 1976

Two Centuries of Advancement

From ...

Colorado Volunteers at the Battles of Glorieta Pass

March 26-28, 1862

On this site and several miles to the west along the Santa Fe Trail, Colorado Volunteers and Regular U.S. Troops fought a Confederate force from Texas in the Battle of Glorieta Pass. Although no clear victory emerged after ...

Glorieta Pass Battlefield

National Historic Landmark, 1961

The Civil War battle fought in this pass is often referred to as the "Gettysburg of the West." Union forces dashed Confederate strategy to seize the southwest's major supply base at Fort Union; Colorado and California were ...