Dangerous Waters

On the point where the mighty Susquehanna River meets the Chesapeake Bay stands the lighthouse that protected vessels from dangerous waters for 148 years.

Built in 1827 to protect vessels from dangerous shoals and currents at the mouth of the Susquehanna ...

The Concord Point Light Keeper’s House and Property

1827-1920. Constructed by John Donahoo of Havre de Grace, Builder of Twelve Maryland Light Houses.

The house and property were sold by the U.S.

Government in April 1920 as the light had been automated and a resident keeper was no longer ...

The Battle of Monterey Pass

As Confederate Captain George Emack's men held the approach of Monterey Pass, Union General George Custer, supported by artillery began his attack toward the intersection where the wagon train was retreating. Captain Emack, fearing that he could not hold another ...

Paris' Mill

The earliest trade center and industrial development in interior Georgia was established here before the Revolutionary War by Francis Paris, Senior.

A rick dam was constructed across the creek, of which it is said that the 400 horse power developed for ...

The Fires of Autumn 1918

Marker Front:

The Cloquet-Moose Lake forest fire of October 12-13, 1918, which almost reached this location, was one of the most destructive forest fires in Minnesota's recorded history. Like other major fires, this one took place on cutover land the stumps ...

Victims of Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon

September 11, 2001

[List of the 184 victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon.]

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Laurentian Divide

The Laurentian Divide separates the watershed of streams that flow north to the Arctic Ocean from the watershed of streams that flow south through the Great lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Where you are standing the divide is formed by ...

Colonel C. Lincoln Wilson

Founder of the City of Lincoln

First president of the Sacramento Valley Railroad

Founder of the California Central Railroad

Colonel Wilson came to California in 1849 not to look for gold but to build a transportation industry. After operating a successful toll road ...

Roseville

First Transcontinental Railroad

Central Pacific graders reached Junction, now Roseville, on November 23, 1863, crossing the line of the California Central, which began building northward from Folsom in May 1858. That line was abandoned in 1868. CP’s track reached Junction April ...

Trotman Folding Stock Anchor

1892

Conventional ship's anchor used from about 1870 to 1910, from the Whaleback steamer Thomas Wilson, sunk a half mile outside Duluth Piers. Recovered in 1973 by the U.S.C.G. Cutter Woodrush with divers Elmer Engman, Dave Anderson, Dan Goman and Paul ...