Utah-Idaho Sugar Company

Former site of the

The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company after determining that sugar beet seed was a good cash crop, bought these grounds and started production that would last for nearly fifty years.

Sugar beets were planted in the fall in the Bloomington ...

Protecting Consumers and Competition

Make No Little Plans

This is the Federal Trade Commission Building, home of the agency that defends the public against unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices. One of the older independent Federal agencies, the FTC ...

"The Old Rugged Cross"

Most popular and widely accepted Christian hymn "The Old Rugged Cross" completed by Rev. George Bennard during Evangelistic meetings here Dec. 29, 1912 - Jan. 12, 1913

First sung as a quartet in the Friends Church Parlors and as a duet ...

The Episcopal Church of the Holy Nativity

The Reverend W. R. Gardner founded the Episcopal Church of the Holy Nativity in 1882 to serve the Canadian Anglicans who had relocated to the area after the Civil War to cut and haul timber. Services were held once a ...

The "Dark Arch"

Originally an open courtyard, Bastion A was roofed over, probably in the 1870's to accommodate new artillery-15-inch Rodman Guns. The new space was divided into an indoor drill hall, a powder magazine and a storage area for wagons and gun ...

Horace Mann

This building honors the memory of

Horace Mann

1796-1859

Brown University class of 1819

Father of American public education, Statesman, reformer, and advocate for the abolition of slavery

Marker is at the intersection of George St. and Magee St., on the right when traveling ...

Jacob Hamblin Home

The Jacob Hamblin Home was built in 1862-1863. The home's construction materials were obtained locally-ponderosa pine from Pine Valley and rock from nearby hillsides. Pioneer craftsmen from Cedar City laid the stone in what is know as a coursed rubble ...

Bakersfield National Cemetery

Dedicated to the Memory of

All the Patriotic Men and Women

Who Answered Their Country's Call to Service

George W. Bush

President of the United States

James B. Peake

Secretary

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

William F. Tuerk

Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs

National Cemetery Administration

Marker is on East Bear ...

Frederick and Anna Reber Home

Fredrick and Anna Reber reached Santa Clara in November of 1861. Laboring with other members of their faith, they forged an existence out of the barren, sandy valley that had been their destination. In direct contrast to their native Switzerland, ...

The Settling of Santa Clara / First Public Buildings / Missionar

[Side A:]The Settling of Santa ClaraThomas Carlyle said of the Switzers, "They are honest people... they are not philosophers or tribunes; but frank, honest landsmen."

In April 1861 a company of Mormon converts from Switzerland, under the direction of mission ...