George-Brockway House

This Colonial Revival adobe was the home of George Brockway and his wife Esther. Brockway was the town medical doctor, Pinal County Hospital Superintendent and Territorial Prison physician. He owned a drugstore, and in 1908 became the first mayor of ...

First Municipal Airport in the United States

Arizona Historic Site

[Marker Front:]

This ground was the location

of the

First Municipal Airport

in the

United States

The Tucson City Council approved the

financing for the airport, July 21, 1919

and

the City of Tucson in cooperation

with the Tucson Chamber of Commerce

established and constructed

the airport.

The first plane landed ...

“Camp Fisher” Civil War Campsite

The 6th North Carolina Infantry Reg’t (C.S.A.) camped along the hills 100 yard south of here from Sept. 1861 to Mar. 1862 and named the site in honor of their fallen commander Col. Charles F. Fisher. The camp contained more ...

19th Indiana Infantry

August 28, 1862

7:00 p.m.

4th Brigade (Gibbon), First Division (King)

Third Corps (McDowell), Army of Virginia, USA

19th Indiana Infantry

Col. Solomon Meredith

"The enemy was secreted under cover of a fence and did not make their appearance until we had approached to within 75 ...

George A. Brown House

This was originally a flat-roofed Sonoran adobe built in 1875 for George A. Brown, Adamsville saloon keeper. The house served briefly as the Wells Fargo office during a rash of stagecoach robberies. "By God" Brown known for his oft-repeated phrase, ...

USS Hoel * USS S. B. Roberts * USS Johnston

United States Navy

Inscribed here are the names of 525 men who died in the Battle of Leyte Gulf during the liberation of the Philippine Islands on 25 Oct 1944. Their ships, the destroyers USS Johnston (DD-557) and USS Hoel (DD-533) ...

Civil War Site 1861-1865

As the border states began to fall, Alabama iron became critical to the survival of the Confederacy. During the last two years of the war, Alabama’s furnaces were producing 70% of the entire southern iron supply.

That output invited federal invasion ...

Levi Ruggles Founder of Florence

Civil War veteran Levi Ruggles came to Arizona Territory in 1866 as a U.S. Indian Agent. Recognizing the agricultural potential of this valley, he found an easily fordable crossing on the Gila River and surveyed a townsite here. He called ...

Donald W. Tendick, Sr., Memorial

From July 1943 to October 1945, Emory & Henry College served as a host site for the U.S. Navy’s V-5/V-12 officer training program—an intensive program of education and physical training that provided the Navy with strong, capable leaders during World ...

Lehigh Valley Railroad Three Story Station House

Located just south, serviced short shuttle runs north into Clinton and south into Pittstown. Building dismantled before WWII.

Marker is at the intersection of Sidney School Road and Landsdown Road, on the left when traveling south on Sidney School Road.

Courtesy ...