The Comstock Trail and History Kiosk

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Comstock Trail

You will find the trail head sign a hundred yards ahead, next to the recycling/dump site. Beyond the dump site is a ridge extending to your left. The trail winds along this ridge for two miles through Pinyon ...

96th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

(Left):Position of the 96th Regt. Penna. Volunteers

2nd Brigade. 1st Division. 6th Army Corps.

From 5 p.m. of the 2nd until the morning

of the 5th of July 1863.

(Right):Organized at and mustered in at Pottsville

Schuylkill County Penna. September 23d 1861

Mustered ...

Terhune-Van Dien House

Built about 1795 by Henry S. Terhune in “Old Paramus” on land owned by the Terhune family since 1707. the two-hundred acre farm extended for over a mile between the Saddle River and Sprout Brook. In 1853 the house was ...

Site of Swedish Evangelical Free Church

Worship services started in 1889 by Swedish immigrants led to founding of Swedish Evangelical Free Church in Decker community (10 mi. E) in July 1892. A similar Swedish congregation originated in April 1904 at Elroy (20 mi. SE). In 1923 ...

Governor Jones House

Thomas Goode Jones, governor of Alabama from 1890-1894, occupied this house during his long political career which took him from the Montgomery City Council to a federal judgeship. During his two terms as governor, his home was the Executive Mansion ...

Maryland's Eastern Shore

Hundreds of Enslaved and Free Black Men Enlisted

Although isolated from Maryland's largest population centers, the Eastern Shore was important to the state's role in the Civil War and exemplified the citizens' divided loyalties.

In the years before the war, enslaved African-Americans ...

The Styles and Stories of Vevay's Buildings

From where you now stand you are sampling some of the building styles found in Switzerland County. On Main Street to your left are three two-story homes. The farthest from you is a dwelling built in the Italianate style. This ...

Maryland's Eastern Shore

Hundreds of Enslaved and Free Black Men Enlisted

Although isolated from Maryland's largest population centers, the Eastern Shore was important to the state's role in the Civil War and exemplified the citizens' divided loyalties.

In the years before the war, ...

U.S.S. Arizona Signal Mast

In Memory of the Crew of the U.S.S. Arizona (BB39)

The upper 26 feet of the mast before you is the top

portion of the main mast of the USS Arizona and is

known as the signal mast or "pigsticker"

The battleship ...

Smith - Joseph - Stratton House

Only surviving residence of former Mayor E.B. Joseph. the Italianate cottage was built c. 1855 by Pickett Chauncey Smith, a merchant in antebellum Montgomery, and father-in-law of E.B. Joseph, who occupied the house from 1880 to 1885. Joseph served on ...