Peter Thompson Home & Blacksmith Shop

These log structures built by Thompson, a Danish convert to Mormonism, are Round Valley's oldest surviving buildings (1879). The cabin hosted the first Mormon services in Springerville.

Marker is on North Papago Street 0.2 miles north of Apache Street, on ...

Rocky Mount Mills

Second cotton mill in State. Building begun, 1818. Federals burned, 1863. Soon rebuilt.

Marker is on Falls Road (North Carolina Route 43/48), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Presbyterian & Catholic Churchs

Begun as missions in the late 1800's, Community Presbyterian Church here, and St. Peter's, a block east, moved into these permanent homes built respectively of brick (1918) & adobe (1928).

Marker is at the intersection of Apache Street and Supai, ...

121st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers

1st Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):Col. Chapman Biddle

Brigade Commander

July 1st 1863

P.V. 121 Reg't

Maj. Alexander Biddle

Commanding Reg't.

1st Brigade 3rd Division

First Corps

(Left):Extreme left

of Union line, 1st day

facing west.

Occupied Cemetery Ridge

July 2nd and 3rd.

Erected by the survivors of this

Regiment in memory of their

fallen comrades.

(Back):Called into ...

The Making of America's Mountain

The granite that make up Pikes Peak was once molten (or liquid) rock. It slowly cooled and hardened miles beneath the earth’s surface, giving the crystals time to grow. Over the last 500 million years several tectonic plates (the earth’s ...

Test Your Bird I.Q.

Watch and listen to see how many different birds you can discover on Pikes Peak. From the foothills to the summit, there are about 225 species. This variety is due to the number of habitats on the mountain. Can you ...

Newton Green

The only Colonial county seat in New Jersey where a court house on its original site fronts a town square or public Green.

In 1908 architect J.J. Vreeland added an upper story and Classical porch to the County Clerk and Surrogate ...

Well-traveled Water

Did you know that Colorado Springs is almost a desert? Deserts receive less than ten inches of rain per year. The average precipitation in Colorado Springs is only about 15 inches per year. That’s pretty dry compared to Boston’s annual ...

The Call Family Residence

1878 - 1972

George Washington Call (1829-1907) and his Chilean wife, Mercedes Leiva (1850-1933), bought 2,500 acres including Fort Ross in 1873. While maintaining a house in San Francisco, the family developed a dairy ranch and expanded the transport of local ...

Hillsborough County's Confederate Monument

Memoria In Aeterna

(West face)

1861

To the Honor and Courage

of the patriots of the

Confederate States

of America,

This monument is dedicated by

Tampa Chapter,

No.113, U. D. C.,

and the citizens of Tampa.

January 1911.

Memoria

In Aeterna.

(South face)

1865

Lest

We

Forget.

(East face)

1861

Not theirs the rush of ...