Tower Bridge: Gateway to the Capital

Identifying A Need

By the early 1930’s, Americans were moving away from trains and ships and turning to automobiles as their mode of transporation. As a result, traffic on roadways increased dramatically. In Sacramento, M Street (now Capital Mall), one of ...

Washington’s Headquarters

Washington’s Headquarters

has been designated a

Registered National Historic Landmark.

Under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935 this site possesses exceptional value in commemorating and illustrating the history of the United States.

U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1961

Marker ...

Fox Tucson Theatre

The Fox Tucson Theatre, the country's only southwestern art deco movie palace, was designed by California architect Eugene Durfee. Construction began in 1929 for the Tower Theatre, the crown jewel of the Diamos Brothers Southern Arizona Movie Theatre chain. Fox ...

The Great Lighthouse

Home to progressive thinkers and welcoming to reformist speakers, the Wesleyan Chapel was known as the “Great Light House.”

In 1843, amidst emerging local and national controversy over freedom of speech, the role of women, temperance, and the morality of slavery, ...

Temple-Ryan Farmhouse

Temple-Ryan Farmhouse c. 1750

Has Been Placed on the

New Jersey Register of Historic Places

By the New Jersey

Department of Environmental Protection

May 6, 1971

And on the

National Register of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

September 10, 1971

Marker can be reached from the ...

A Courageous Call for Equal Rights

At first we traveled quite alone…but before we had gone many miles we came on the other wagon –load of women…and long before we reached Seneca Falls we were a procession.

Charlotte Woodward, about 1920

Here in the Wesleyan Chapel, at ...

Mississippi County Court House

The county seat of Mississippi County, created in 1833, was located at Osceola in 1836. Since about 1900 the county has maintained another court house at Blytheville for the northern district. The county was named for the great river which ...

The Civilian Conservation Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps of Fort Ancient

Side A: The Civilian Conservation Corps

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the federal government established the Civilian Conservation Corps, known as the CCC or triple C's under the direction of President ...

Micajah McPherson

We have Fought the Good Fight and Kept Our Faith

Micajah McPherson, a trustee of Freedom Hill Wesleyan Methodist Church and abolitionist, was lynched about a mile and a half southeast of here. Although there are different stories about his lynching, ...

The Tower Bridge

The Tower Bridge, a vertical-lift span, was opened for traffic on December 15, 1935 and was built at a cost of $994,000. The State Department of Public Works, the City and the County of Sacramento and the Federal Government built ...