The National Pony Express Monument

A Moment in Time.

Running as fast as the mustang pony could run, Pony Express riders raced across nearly 1900 miles of wilderness carrying the U.S. Mail between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. With nostrils flaring, lungs gasping for air, ...

Commodore Jones Point

Named for Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, founder of the Naval Academy and War of 1812 hero. As Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Jones landed at Monterey 1842, raising the Stars and Stripes under misapprehension of war with Mexico. From 1848 ...

Ketchum's Alabama Battery

Pond's Brigade - Ruggles' Division - Bragg's Corps

C. S.

Ketchum's Alabama Battery,

Pond's (3d) Brig., Ruggles' (1st) Div., Bragg's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

Two sections (four guns) of this battery were in action here from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., April 6, 1862.

Marker ...

“Sunnyhill Home”

Built by Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day, this residence is believed to have been designed in 1874 by prominent Milwaukee architect James Douglas. Once called “Wauwatosa’s most prominent citizen,” Dr. Day was a physician for the County Hospital, the Poor Farm ...

154th New York Infantry

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):

154th New York

Infantry

1st Brigade, 2nd Division,

11th Corps,

July 1, 1863

(Left):July 2nd and 3rd

occupied position

on East Cemetery Hill.

(Back):Casualties.

Killed, Men 1,

Wounded, Officers 1, Men 20,

Captured or Missing,

Officers 9, Men 169,

Total 200,

(Right):Died while prisoners,

42.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Hugh Waddell

c. 1734-April 9, 1773

Directed construction of Fort Dobbs in 1756 while in command of Provincial forces. Irish born, Waddell was in North Carolina by 1754. During French & Indian War, he led troops to Pennsylvania in 1758 and repulsed Cherokee ...

Dr. Robert Fassnacht

In Memoriam

This is the site of the Sterling Hall bombing, which occurred at 3:40 AM on August 24, 1970. An outstanding research scientist, Dr. Robert Fassnacht, was killed in the bombing while working during the night in his laboratory on ...

Topaz 1942–1946

Central Utah WRA Relocation Center

Fifteen miles west at Abraham is the location of the bleak desert site of a concentration camp, one of ten in Western America, in which 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned against their will during ...

134th Regiment New York Infantry

Lieut Colonel A. H. Jackson Commanding

1st Brigade Colonel Charles R. Coster

2d Division Brigadier General A. Von Steinwehr

11th Corps Major General O.O. Howard

July 1st, 1863

The regiment with the brigade was thrown forward to check the rapid advance of Hay's and Hoke's ...

Fort MacArthur / 500 Varas Square Historic District

[Port of Los Angeles]

Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo, exploring for Spain, discovered Alta California and named San Pedro Bay, “Bahia de los Fumos” (Bay of Smokes, October 1542. The smoke on the Bay shore came from the native Suang-Na Indian Fires. ...