Sacajawea Historic Byway

Guide to 10 Historic Stops Between I-15 and Salmon Idaho

[This marker also serves as a site map for historical and natural resource sites. The text is entered in the order of their numbers.]

1. Mud Lake Wildlife Management Area

Mud Lake Wildlife ...

James William Fulbright

President of University of Arkansas 1939-1941.

U.S. Representative 1943-1944.

U.S. Senator 1945.

Delegate to the United Nations 1954.

Author of Fulbright Resolution for International Cooperation 1943.

Originator of Fulbright International Exchange Scholarship Program.

Attended University Training School Primary through High School.

Student in University of Arkansas

1921-1925.

B.A. 1925. ...

John Kirby Allen (1810-1838)

Co-founder of Houston

Gravesite of

John Kirby Allen (1810-1838)

Co-founder of Houston

Houston in 1836 was a humid swamp overgrown with sweet gum trees and coffee bean weeds. In this spot, however, two brothers from New York recognized the future "commercial emporium of Texas."

John ...

St. John's Church / Bishop Lawrence J. Scanlan

Silver Reef, UT

St. John's Church

After his 1877 visit to Silver Reef, Father Scanlan appointed Father Dennis Kiely as the local pastor. The increasing Catholic population continued to ask for a church. Father Scanlan returned in November 1878 to accomplish this ...

Jenkins in Buckhannon

The Raiders Strike

(Preface): Confederate Gen. Albert G. Jenkins led 550 cavalrymen on a 500-mile raid from Salt Sulphur Springs, Aug. 22-Sept. 12, 1862, attacking Federal forces and destroying military stores. He captured and paroled 300 Union soldiers, killed or wounded ...

Gov. Joseph A. Wright

Gov. Jos. A. Wright

1810 — 1867

Atty. In Rockville 1829 – 1849

Gov. Of Indiana 1949 – 1857

Minister of U.S.A. to Prussia

Parke Co. Historical Society

Marker can be reached from Old 36 Road (County Route 168) west of Neysville ...

Old 1832 Jail

This building, erected in 1832, replaced an 1824 log structure and served as jail and sheriff’s residence until ca. 1879.

A scaffold erected just east of the jail was the scene of the last hanging in Parke County.

Marker is at the ...

John Kirby Allen (1810-19338)

Co-founder of Houston

Gravesite of

John Kirby Allen (1810-1838)

Co-founder of Houston

Houston in 1836 was a humid swamp overgrown with sweet gum trees and coffee bean weeds. In this spot, however, two brothers from New York recognized the future "commercial emporium of Texas."

John ...

Jolon

The town of Jolon (pronounced H?e-L?ne) was established in the 1860s to meet the needs of miners traveling to the Los Burros Mining District on the coast. It later developed into the center of commercial and social activity in southern ...

In memory of Jeff Allen and Shane Heath

In memory of

Jeff Allen and Shane Heath,

Indianola Helitack Crew members,

lost in the Cramer Fire near here on

July 22, 2003.

This will be a lasting place of remembrance and gratitude for their lives and service, a place for wildland firefighters to reflect ...