Jack M. Campbell Highway

Taos to Tierra Amarilla

This road passes through some of the most spectacular scenery in the American Southwest. It is a key section of the east - west highway which brings visitors to this region from throughout the United States. Since ...

Lime Creek Burn 1879

This man-caused forest fire burned 26,000 acres consuming approximately 150,000,000 board-feet of timber. Reforestation by direct seeding and planting of seedling trees was started in 1911 and continues today.

The project was financed by federal funds and contributions from the conservation-minded ...

Prehistoric Mesa Verde Reservoirs

National Historic

Civil Engineering Landmark

[American Society of Civil Engineering

1852 Logo]

Prehistoric Mesa Verde Reservoirs

Mesa Verde's industrious Ancestral Puebloans designed, constructed, and maintained Morefield, Box Elder, Far View and Sagebrush Reservoirs for domestic water-storage between A.D. 750 and 1180.

Marker can be reached from ...

The Decline of the Jewish Community of Gerolzhofen from January

Niedergang der Jüdische Gemeinde Gerolzhofen ab 30. Januar 1933

[Marker text in German:]

Urkundlich nachweisbar genehmigte im Jahr 1425 Fürstbischof Johann II v. Brunn die Ansässigmachung von Juden in Gerolzhofen. Viele jüdische Mitbürger engagierten sich im öffentlichen Leben und genossen Vertrauen und ...

Kearney State College Memorial Carillon Tower

In honor of

George and Venetia Peterson

and

Elias and Mary Yanney

The carillon tower reflects the early history of Kearney State College and the Administration Building located adjacent to this site.

The four columns of the carillon tower symbolize the columns that adorned the ...

First Court House of Berkshire County

Near this spot stood the first court house of Berkshire County erected 1764.

Here August 16, 1774 occurred the first open resistance to British rule in America

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 7) and Castle Street, ...

Staunton’s Wharf Historic District History

When the Central Virginia Railroad was built in 1854, it changed Staunton from a rural village into a booming center of commerce. By the turn of the century, the warehouses that had grown up around the train depot supplied everything ...

Great Barrington Civil War Memorial

A Tribute

Of honor and Gratitude

To Her Citizens Who Fought

For Liberty and Union

1861. – 1865.

Erected by the Town of

Great Barrington.

1876.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 7) and Castle Street, on the left when traveling north on Main Street. ...

Tennessee River and Moccasin Bend

You are now looking to the north

Here the Tennessee River makes a sweeping, clockwise loop around Moccasin Bend. In 1863, vital supplies were brought to the besieged Federals in Chattanooga across the "neck" of Moccasin Bend, using pontoon bridges at ...

New Zion Baptist Church

New Zion Baptist Church, the second oldest and largest black Baptist Church on Amelia Island, was founded on May 15, 1870 under the leadership of Reverend Lewis Cook (1834-1880). He and 69 parishioners held their first meeting in a stable ...