Johnson's Fort

During the summer of 1851, a small company of men was exploring this area and discovered the springs on the bench one-fourth mile to the east. Joel H. Johnson was so impressed with the spot, that he sought and received ...

Government Boarding School Boys Dormitory

Listed on the National and Tribal Registers of Historic Places for its National Significance in representing the Government Boarding Schools and their impact on Indigenous Nations.

Restoration and rehabilitation of the Boy’s Dormitory, circa 1906, was funded in part by ...

Verbeck Residence

West Bend, Wisconsin

The United State Government Land Grant transfer to William W. Verbeck took place January 1, 1848.

In the early 1850s a barn and home were constructed.

The residence is a square, two-story brick structure, featuring arched brick ...

Cedar City Railroad Depot

Utah Historic Site

Built in 1923, the Cedar City Railroad Depot is historically significant for its direct association with the railroad and its impact on Cedar City. In addition to stimulating the local iron ore and livestock industries, the railroad connection ...

Heroine of China

Helen Foster Snow

Born and raised in Cedar City, Helen Foster Snow was a journalist, traveler, thinker, and activist who was present during the revolutionary period leading up to the establishment of the People's Republic of China and became a heroine ...

Origins of Freedman's Town

Located in Houston's Fourth Ward, the original Freedman's Town settlement was founded soon after the emancipation of enslaved blacks on June 19, 1865, at the end of the Civil War in Texas. Positioned west of downtown and directly south of ...

Houston Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade

Founded in 1874 to facilitate trade in the expanding cotton market. This Victorian renaissance revival edifice, designed by Eugene T. Heiner, was built in 1884-85 by contractors Max Kosse and James S. Lucas. The exchange room and galleries were situated ...

Old McIntosh Road

This tablet marks the

Old McIntosh Road

Part of the Three Notch Trail blazed by the Creek Indian Chief

William McIntosh

Slain in 1825, because of his friendship for the White Man

Marker is at the intersection of Old Atlanta Road and Beatty Street, on ...

The Greenback Raid

Mosby's Men Strike It Rich

(Preface):

The Federal offensive in the Shenandoah Valley begun in May 1864 faltered in the summer with Confederate victories and Gen. Jubal A. Early's Washington Raid in July. Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan took command in August, ...

McCoy-Hare House

This board and batten house, built in 1874 as a drugstore by Dr. James McCoy, first physician of Westminster Colony (founded 1870 by Rev. L.P. Webber), was the home of Marie Larter Hare, local educator, from 1912 to 1984. Restored ...