Park Falls Veterans Memorial

Old Abe Veterans Memorial

In honor of the men and women of the Park Falls area who have served or are currently serving in the Armed Forces of the United States defending our freedoms and the principles of democracy, and especially ...

Felipe Valerio Store and Garage

(1.5 mi. southeast)

Built in 1905 by Felipe Valerio (1878-1953) and his wife Jesusa (1886-1973), the Valerio store was an integral part of the small community of La Rosita. Located approximately halfway between San Diego and Freer, the store provided groceries ...

U. S. Post Office Department

Ariel Rios Federal Building

Inscription above the frieze, center, west side entablature:

The Post Office Department, in its ceaseless labors, pervades every channel of commerce and every theatre of human enterprise, and while visiting, as it does kindly every fireside, ...

The Grand Army of the Republic

Dedicated

May 7-1941

in memory of

Our Fathers

The Grand Army

of the Republic

1861-65

Marker is on North Pine Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Boyhood Home of Ray H. Jenkins

1897 - 1980

Known as the “Terror of Tellico Plains,” this eminent Knoxville lawyer gained national fame as Chief Counsel at the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. He defended more than 600 persons on trial for their lives and never lost a ...

Fort Loudoun Massacre

Four miles N.E., at junction Cane Creek, Tellico River, Fort Loudoun’s Garrison, which had surrendered to Attakullakulla and other Cherokee chiefs, was betrayed Aug. 9, 1760 - while returning under safe conduct to Charleston. 25 were killed; 200 enslaved, and ...

Old Federal Road

This highway follows two miles of the Old Federal Road established by the Treaty of 1805 between the United States and the Cherokee Nation. The Road began at the Tellico Blockhouse on the Little Tennessee River and extended to Vann’s ...

Finney House

Construction layers of this original homestead tell much of Nevada City’s ‘boom and bust’ history. In 1864, miner Frank Finney and his bride, Mary, moved into a cabin on this property that had been constructed the previous year. The cabin ...

Site of the Trial and Hanging of George Ives

Dec. 21, 1863

Most extraordinary trial in history.

Marker is on Montana Route 287.

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Forbes Road

1758

Shawnee Cabins Encampment

At this point

the Forbes Road

leads southwestward

to

the eastern slope

of

the Allegheny Mountains

8 1/3 miles from Fort Bedford

Marker is on Lincoln Highway (U.S. 30) 0.2 miles west of Market Street (Pennsylvania ...