San Rafael

San Rafael, formerly know as El Gallo, is located at a spring near the Malpais, the great lave flow to the east. The area was visited by members of Vásquez de Coronado's expedition in 1540. In 1862, it was selected ...

124th New York Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

124th

New York Infantry.

(Orange Blossoms)

2nd Brigade, 1st Division,

3rd Corps.

Occupied this position

during Pickett's Charge.

July 3, 1863.

Marker is at the intersection of Pleasonton Avenue and Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling east on Pleasonton Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Presidio Wall

This marker locates the northwest corner of the adobe wall which surrounded the Royal Spanish Presidio San Agustin del Tucson, In 1776 the new outpost was garrisoned by seventy Spanish cavalry troopers and Indian scouts, transferred from Tubac under the ...

Skyline Drive

The High Road Through Shenandoah National Park

Among the scenic roads of America’s national parks, the Skyline Drive may be the most famous. For decades the Drive has given millions of visitors easy access to the mountains and sky of Shenandoah ...

U.S.S. Sacramento 1863 – 1867

A wooden sloop, 229 feet long and with a crew of 138, she was commissioned for blockade service during the Civil War. First, she contained Confederate ships off the coast of North Carolina and later Atlantic ports in Europe. In ...

General Lafayette

Here on June 8, 1825

General Lafayette

was welcomed by the

Citizens of Waterloo.

Erected by Seneca Lodge 113 F. & A.M.

as a grateful tribute to the heroism,

loyalty and patriotism of their

illustrious brother.

June 8, 1922

Marker ...

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Grants, NM

Honoring the

58,249 KIA

As of

August 1, 2005

Marker is on West Santa Fe Avenue (Historic Route 66) 0.2 miles east of New Mexico Route 53, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Presidio Wall Camino Real

Near this site was the southwest corner of the adobe wall that surrounded the Spanish Presidio, an enclosure of 11 ¼ acres which included most of the present city – county governmental complex and the Art Museum block. Tucson was ...

Shenandoah’s Deer

“Look! There’s a deer!” Visitors often exclaim these words in Shenandoah national park-an amazing fact since deer were not here in 1926 when Congress authorized Shenandoah. Years of hunting and other human activity had eliminated them. In 1934, thirteen white-tailed ...

Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives

17th and M Streets, NW

This school, completed in 1872, was one of three public elementary schools built for DC's black children just after the Civil War. Its name honors U.S. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, who fought to abolish slavery ...