The Star Gazers' Stone

The Star-Gazers’ Stone Erected in 1764 by Mason and Dixon in locating the Pennsylvania-Maryland Boundary Line Being 15 miles North thereof and 31 miles due West of Philadelphia. Here they also measured a degree of Latitude on the Earth’s surface ...

Appalachian Trail

Footpath for hikers

2100 miles Georgia – Maine

Maintained by volunteers

NY – NJ Trail Conference

Marker is on U.S. 6, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Anderson Street Railway

Chartered August 19, 1887

At this site Anderson's original street railway line extended northward to the PanHandle Railroad depot located at Main and Fifth Streets. Two mule-drawn street cars, each seating twenty persons; first operated over the 3-mile route on the ...

Site of the United States Fort Harmar

Built 1785

Garrisoned by U.S. troops 1785 to 1790

Headquarters 1786 and 1788 of

Gen. Josiah Harmar of PA.

General-in-Chief U.S.A.

Marker is at the intersection of Fort Street and Fort Square, on the right when traveling north on Fort Street.

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The Gravesite of Lansing A. Wilcox

Lansing A. Wilcox, last surviving Wisconsin veteran of the Civil War, was born in Kenosha March 3, 1846. In February 1864 he enlisted from Chippewa County in F Company, Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, returning to the Cadott community in 1866. A ...

Gold Road Mine

In 1900 Jose Jerez discovered gold here in a

chunk of quartz. It was assayed out 40 ounces to

the ton! The claim was resold for $275,000.00. By

1907 the mine milled 140,625 ounces of gold

worth $2,250,000.00. Addwest Minerals acquired

the ...

We Salute John “Snowshoe” Thompson / A Tribute From Three Luther

We Salute John “Snowshoe” Thompson

On his homemade snowshoes John carried the mail and supplies over the snowy Sierras for 20 winters. As he traveled, he saved the lives of seven people who were snowbound in mountain cabins. In 1866, ...

Colorado River Ferries

Ferries of various size and design once provided transportation across the lower Colorado River linking Arizona with California, Nevada and Utah.

Ferrymen plied their trade from Yuma to Pearce Ferry. The first ferry on the river was started at Yuma Crossing ...

Col. Ellsworth

Lincoln’s law clerk, first

Union officer killed in Civil

War 5-24-1861. Final resting

place Hudson View Cemetery,

Mechanicville, with parents.

Marker is at the intersection of Central Avenue South (U.S. 4) and South Street, on the right when traveling south on Central Avenue South.

Courtesy ...

Major Robert Anderson

In honor of

Major Robert Anderson

and the one-one-hundred-twenty-eight men of his command

who for thirty-four hours April Twelve-Thirteen,

Eighteen-hundred-sixty-one withstood the destructive

bombardment of Fort Sumter and withdrew with the

honors of war • the War of Secession began here.

Erected under the bequest of

E.M.C.A. ...