Monterey Academy

1890 - 1961

This monument is dedicated to all the teachers and students who attended this school. Built in 1890 and completed in 1892, was known as Monterey Academy, and was a two room one story building that housed grades one ...

U.S. Geological Survey Streamflow-Guging Station

Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland

Why does the USGS measure Streamflow?

The mission of the USGS is to provide the Nation with reliable, impartial information to describe and understand the Earth and its resources. The USGS streamflow-gaging program provides important hydrologic information ...

Margaret Rhodes Crocker

1822 – 1901

The donation of her late husband’s art collection to the city in 1885 gave Sacramento the first and finest art gallery west of the Mississippi. Other philanthropic gestures during her lifetime, which included generous support of the Protestant ...

Suhr House

1886

This house was built in a late Second French Empire style with ornate detailing in the manner of the Aesthetic style. Its owner, John J. Suhr, was the founder of the German American Bank. The architect, John Nader, was primarily ...

Discovery of San Francisco Bay

Captain Gaspar de Portola camped, October 31, 1769, by the creek at the south side of this valley, and to that camp scouting parties brought news of a body of water to the east. On November 4 the expedition advanced. ...

Army of the Potomac

July 6, 1863

First Corps marched from Gettysburg to Emmitsburg. Fifth Corps from Marsh Run to Moritz's Cross-Roads. Sixth Corps from Fairfield to Emmitsburg except the Third brigade, Second Division which in conjunction with the First Brigade, Second Cavalry Division was ...

Bryn Athyn Cathedral

This Swedenborgian center is noted architecturally. Buildings in 14th-century Gothic and 12th-century Romanesque styles. Built by cooperative craft guilds in medieval way. Endowed by John Pitcairn.

Marker is on Huntington Pike (Pennsylvania Route 232), on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy ...

Westport World War II Memorial

For God And Country

1941 1945

They Honored Us More Than

We Can Honor Them

Donald E. Ball • Michael P. Cherub • James V. Cuso • Charles J. De Maria • William E. Dougherty, Jr. • Robert F. Dustman • David Elder • ...

American Baptist Seminary of the West - Hobart Hall

City of Berkeley Landmark - designated in 1999

This compact complex of buildings linked by a series of arcades and academic quads in the English tradition was created to house one of Berkeley's oldest seminaries. Hobart Hall, designed by Julia Morgan, ...

Captain Don Gaspar de Portolà

Born in Balaguer, Catalonia, Spain • First Governor of California • Founder of San Diego and Monterey •

Discoverer of the Bay of San Francisco on November 4, 1769.

Presented by the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Honorable Jordi ...