Confederate Cabinet

Members of the cabinet, fleeing south, occupied a railroad car near this spot, Apr. 11-15, 1865.

Marker is at the intersection of South Elm Street and South Davie Steet on South Elm Street.

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Great Minquas Path

An important Indian trail, key to Pennsylvania's fur trade in the 17th century, crossed the present highway near here. It linked trading posts on the lower Schuylkill and Indian towns to the west. The Dutch, Swedes, and English fought one ...

"War" With Happy Ending

Michigan troops made heir headquarters here during the bloodless Toledo "war" in 1835.

Intense rivalry between the settlers of the two states fanned a controversy near flame. Original U. S. surveys had put in Monroe County the mouth of the Maumee ...

Fort Benson

This is the site of an adobe fortification erected about 1856-57 by the "Independent" faction in a dispute with the Mormons over a land title. The fort was maintained for about a year. This also is the site of the ...

Claremore Mound

Site of battle in "Strawberry Moon" 1817, when Chief Clermont's Osage village was wiped out by Cherokees. This Osage band from Missouri had settled near the mound at insistence of fur traders of St. Louis. Osages became the wealthiest Indians ...

Maplewood Historic Park

Site of Erie Canal lock &

former Weighlock Bldg.1850-1915

located near "The Juncta" of old

Erie and Champlain Canals

Marker is on 2nd Avenue (New York Route 32) north of 26th Street, on the right when traveling north.

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African Americans at Copp’s Hill

The first mention of Africans arriving in Boston is in Governor John Winthrop’s diary entry of February 26, 1638, in which he states: “Mr. Peirce, in the Salem Ship, the Desire, returned from the West Indies . . . and ...

The Arrowhead Landmark

Located in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains directly above the City of San Bernardino, the Arrowhead Landmark can be seen for miles around. This important landmark has for centuries been a symbol of the San Bernardino Valley to ...

St. Matthew's Lutheran Church Christian Day School

Meherrin, Virginia

In 1880 a German Lutheran minister, the Rev. W. R. Buehler, a well-educated man who had worked for five years as a missionary in Africa, moved with his family to Green Bay, Virginia. He had not been in Green ...

B&O Railroad Tunnel

You are standing over a 423 foot man-made sandstone tunnel built by the railroad between 1864 and 1870. Located on the Pittsburgh-Columbus main line, up to 37 trains a day passed under East Main Street during the railroad’s heyday.

The ...