Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Building

Veteran Travis County official and historian Frank Brown (1833-1913) erected this structure in 1886. Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Company bought and restyled the building in 1898. Architect A.O. Watson designed the ornate façade. Previously in rented quarters at various sites, ...

Confederate Hospital

This Church was used for a

Confederate Hospital

During the War

Between The States

Erected by

General John H. Forney

Chapter U.D.C. Sept 27, 1937

Marker is on Clinton Street Southeast, on the right when traveling west.

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Tularosa

The Tularosa Basin has been occupied by Indian groups for thousands of years. The first Hispanic settlers moved here from the Rio Grande Valley in 1862. Anglo settlers and cattlemen began moving into the region in the 1870s. The original ...

Fort Wingate

The first Fort Wingate was established near San Rafael in 1862, to serve as the base of Col. Kit Carson's campaigns against the Navajos. In 1868 the garrison was transferred to the second Fort Wingate near Gallup. In that same ...

Ephrata Cloister

Surviving buildings of the famous Ephrata community of Seventh Day Baptists, founded by Conrad Beissel, 1732. Turn to the right here to see this State historic shrine.

Marker is at the intersection of PA 272 and US 332, on the right ...

Silver Star Lodge # 5

On this site stood the Silver Star Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons #5.

Chartered on Oct. 13, 1864, Lodge #5 once hosted the largest membership in Nevada.

Timberman Duane L. Bliss who established Glenbrook and was a builder of the Virginia ...

Smith-Clark-Smith House

When the State Capitol burned in 1881, Scottish-born James Baird Smith (1843-1907) cleared the site and erected a temporary statehouse nearby. Salvaged brick and stone, which he used to build this rent house about 1886, probably came from the burned ...

Branchville Depot

The first settlement of the town of Branchville was 1735 about one mile southeast of the present town. Almost 100 years later, the present town grew from 170 acres of land purchased from the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company. ...

Battery C, Fourth U.S. Artillery

First Regular Brigade - Artillery Reserve

Army of the Potomac

Artillery Reserve

First Regular Brigade

Battery C Fourth U.S. Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Lieut. Evan Thomas commanding

July 2 Arrived and took position on crest of hill near General Meade's Headquarters on the left of the Second ...

General Leonidas Polk C.S.A.

Bishop of Louisiana

Held service in this church 1864

Erected by General John H. Forney

Chapter U.D.C.

April 26, 1937

Marker is at the intersection of Chinabee Avenue Southeast and Ladiga Street Southeast, on the right when traveling north on Chinabee Avenue Southeast.

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