Fort Lyon

In this vicinity stood Fort Lyon, the major fortification on the left flank of the Federal defenses guarding the city of Washington during the Civil War. Named in honor of Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, the fort covered an area of ...

Miller's Station

Pre-Revolutionary house owned by Josiah Miller. Inherited by his son Luke, Major in the Morris County Militia. Property remained in family until 1889.

Marker is on Ridgedale Avenue just from Oxford Lane, on the right when traveling east.

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The First Meeting House

Near this site stood

the first Meeting House

erected in Milford

1641

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street and West River Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.

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Manuel Becerra

Born at Presidio La Bahía del Espíritu Santo in 1762, Manuel Becerra played a significant role in the settlement and politics of the region. Becerra and his wife, Juana María Cadena, and their two daughters, María Josefa and Gertrudis, were ...

A Place on the High Ground

Centreville Civil War Forts & Earthworks

In the fall of 1861, after their July defeat at Manassas (Bull Run), Union forces retreated to Washington, D.C. to organize and retrain. Confederate forces concentrated in Centreville to bolster their defense of Northern Virginia ...

At Navajo Springs

December 29, 1863 Arizona's Territorial officials took the oath of office during a snowstorm. Governor John N. Goodwin and other officials arriving from the east by wagon train, took their oaths of office and raised the U.S. flag "to establish ...

First Masonic Hall Built in California

The first Masonic hall built in California was begun in the summer of 1850, occupied by the lodge October 14, 1850, and formally dedicated December 27, 1850. This building served as the Masonic Temple for Benicia Lodge No. 5 until ...

Ruff Memorial Wheelmen's Bench / Cycle Carnival 1897

Front

Erected 1897 by Ky. Div. of League of American Wheelmen to honor cycling pioneer A.D. Ruff (1827-96) of Owingsville, Ky. The League's oldest member, he had bicycled to Yellowstone National Park in 1893. Marble fountain and stone bench, ...

Bergholz Veterans Memorial

To honor those

from Bergholz and Community

who served their Country

in World War I and World War II

Korea

1950-1953

Vietnam

1961-1975

Persian Gulf

1991

Iraq Freedom

2003

Marker is on 2nd Street 0.1 miles east of Ohio Route 164, on the right.

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Old Quaker Settlement - Adkins Store

Charles City County, Virginia

This community was the site of a Quaker settlement in the eighteenth century and the Weyanoke Quaker Meeting House and graveyard. The meetinghouse was the Upper Quarter gathering place for the Yearly Meeting of Virginia Quaker. The ...