Helicopter Landing Pad

Navy purchased the land in 1943. Fixed wing planes used the airstrip into the 1950's. In 1952 Marine Helicopter pilots practiced take-offs and landings at this site up through the Vietnam era.

Marker can be reached from Brookhurst Street near Heil ...

Fountain Valley Drive-In

Opened on July 12, 1967 and was part of the Pacific Theater Group. The Nations largest Drive-In and it contained the only fountains in town. Demolished in 1984

Marker is at the intersection of Brookhurst Street and Talbert Avenue, on the ...

Gisler Home

Robert and Anna Gisler came here in 1903. On 220 acres, he started a dairy herd, cleared the land, and then farmed it. A home was built near here in 1912.

Marker is on Garfield Avenue just west of San Antonio ...

Callens Home

Rene and Virginie Callens came here in 1910. He developed and farmed 60 acres. Present home of son Joseph R. Callens and family.

Marker is on Ellis Avenue just west of Jacaranda Street, on the right when traveling east.

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Hungry, Wet and Cold

The historic Lewis and Clark Expedition travelled along this river in 1805. As the first white men to document this region, their maps, diaries, and encounters with different cultures forever changed the western landscape.

Cold, wet and hungry, Captain Clark's ...

Clifford A. Maughan P.F.C.

Clifford A. Maughan P.F.C.

F. Co., 505 PIR, 82nd Airborne

Born 1920 — Died 1990

This plaque is to commemorate

P.F.C. Clifford Maughan

who parachuted into the garden of this

house at approximately 01.45 hours

on the morning of 6th June 1944

He was taken prisoner by a ...

Laundress' Quarters

The four wooden frame buildings that comprised "Sudsville" or "Laundress Row," were located approximately 100 yards behind and to the left of this sign. Each building housed four laundresses and their families in two 12' by 12' rooms. Laundresses were ...

General Gavin’s Foxhole

Ici combattit

Le Général

James-M-Gavin

le 6 juin 1944

Translation:

Here fought

General

James M. Gavin

June 6, 1944

Marker is on Route D15, on the left when traveling west.

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Site of the McDonald Massacre

Pioneer preacher Matthew Taylor and the families of his daughter and two sons moved here in 1863 from their homestead on the Llano River. They built a cabin on this site near the source of the Pedernales River. In August ...

Talbert Home

Sam and Hattie Talbert came here in 1897. He built a river levee and huge ditches so that the land would drain to permit regular farming.

Marker is on Bushard Street, on the right when traveling south.

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