Goat Trail

The U.S. Army arrived at Valdez during the Gold Rush to build a trail into the interior. They found the Valdez Glacier impassable much of the year. To bypass the glacier, they cut a narrow trail along the walls of ...

Nathaniel William Taylor

Nathaniel William Taylor

Born at New Milford

June 28, 1786

Graduated at Yale College

1807

Ordained Pastor of the First

Church in New Haven 1812.

Elected Dwight Professor of

Didactic Theology in Yale College

1822.

Died March 10, 1858

Oh How Love I The Law!

Nath'l W. Taylor D.D.

Marker can be reached ...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Place

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

Senator

Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture and the proposal for the redevelopment of Pennsylvania Avenue, which President John F. Kennedy proclaimed on May 23, 1962.

He served in ...

Amos Beebe Eaton

Amos Beebe Eaton

Brigadier and Commissary-General U.S. Army

Born May 12 1806

Died February 21 1877

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Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1826

He served in the Black Hawk and Seminole Wars.

Through the Mexican War he served ...

The Nocatula Legend

The Hackberry and The Oak

A wounded English officer from Fort Loudon was befriended by an Indian Chief and nursed back to health by Nocatula, daughter of the Chief. The soldier, given the name of Connestoga, “The Oak,” was accepted into ...

Battle of Athens

August 1 - 2, 1946

The Battle of Athens was an armed revolt that gained national attention. Attempting to end the control of an entrenched political machine, World War II veterans used force to ensure that on the day of local ...

Palatine Road

c. 1712

First Road West By

German Refugees To

Schoharie Valley

Marker is on New York Route 146 near Wagner Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Albert Gallatin Willis

A Life Laid Down for a Friend

This is the burial site of a Mosby Ranger who sacrificed himself for a friend. By the autumn of 1864, Confederate John S. Mosby’s Rangers had so harassed Union troops, supply lines, and railroads ...

Flanking the Statue of Chief Paduke

The centerpiece of this mural is the February 1948 cover of the Enthusiast magazine featuring officers David Drew and Jullian Pryor Slaughter on their Harleys flanking the statue of Chief Paduke. Also shown are: Paducah motorcycle racer "Tennessee Slim" Mayo; ...

Discovery of Gold at Gold Hill

The tablet commemorates the

discovery of gold-bearing quartz

and the beginning of quartz mining

in California

The discovery was made on

Gold Hill

by

George Knight

October 1850

The occurrence of gold-bearing quartz was undoubtedly noted here and elsewhere about the same time or previously, but the above discovery ...