George Washington Boulder

George Washington Boulder

On this rock

President George Washington

rested and ate dinner, enroute

from Salisbury to Winston-Salem

May 31, 1791

Erected by

Gen Wm. Davidson Chapter D.A.R.

Lexington N.C.

1926

Marker is on Route 150, on the right when traveling west.

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Building Together for Youth

The National Congress of Colored parents and teachers grew from a meeting called at the request of Selena Sloan Butler through the school principal, Cora B. Finley, at Yonge Street School, March 14, 1911. As interest grew, other school units ...

Rabbit Ear Mountain

These two striking mounds were the first features to become visible to Santa Fe Trail traffic crossing into New Mexico from Oklahoma, and so became important landmarks for caravans.

From here, traffic on this major 19th century commercial route still ...

Monterey Breakwater

Historic Cannery Row

Recurring winter storms wreaked havoc on the Monterey fishing fleet every few years (top). On April 29, 1915, such a storm, with 60-mile-per-hour winds, destroyed or damaged nearly 50 boats. On Thanksgiving morning 1919, more than 93 vessels ...

Hogbacks

Interstate 25 cuts through dipping strata that form hogback ridges between the Great Plains and the south end of the Rocky Mountains. The Santa Fe Trail from here to Santa Fe, followed a natural valley eroded in less resistant strata ...

McAbee Beach

Historic Cannery Row

Portuguese whalers

From the California Gold Rush to nearly the turn of the century, Portuguese whalers launched boats from this beach and rowed them out into the bay to intercept whales migrating along the Monterey coastline. Once harpooned, the ...

Gibson County Courthouse

The Gibson County Courthouse, built in 1899, is the fourth one to have occupied this site. The first courthouse was a log structure built in 1824, the year following the organization of the county, a process commenced by David Crockett, ...

Colonel Thomas W. Ferebee

Family Homesite

Colonel Thomas W. Ferebee

Bombardier, Enola Gay

Dropped Atomic Bomb on

Hiroshima, Japan

August 6, 1945

Marker is on Wilkesboro Street (U.S. 64), on the left when traveling east.

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Elberton Granite Bicentennial Memorial Fountain

[Column - East/West Inscription]:

Elberton

Granite

Bicentennial

Memorial

Fountain

***

Commemorating

The

200th

Anniversary

of

American

Independence

***

1776 — 1976

[Column - North/South Inscription]:

Erected

During

1976

As A

Gift

to

Elberton

and

Albert County

by

Member-Firms

of the

Elberton Granite

Association, Inc

***

May this fountain serve

as an everyday reminder

of the Elberton Granite

Industry's interest in

this community and con-

tributions to this area's

economic and civic life.

[First Panel]:

1776 - 1976

Two Centuries of Advancement

From ...

Colorado Volunteers at the Battles of Glorieta Pass

March 26-28, 1862

On this site and several miles to the west along the Santa Fe Trail, Colorado Volunteers and Regular U.S. Troops fought a Confederate force from Texas in the Battle of Glorieta Pass. Although no clear victory emerged after ...