A Place Of Pilgrimage

Many centuries before Samuel de Champlain's July 1609 landfall, Isle La Mottte had been a meeting place for the lake's neighboring native peoples. The Wonbanakiak on the eastern shore called the land Bitawbagw, or "the waters between," while the Iroquois ...

Lancaster County Law Enforcement Officers Memorial

Dedicated to the officers of this county who gave their lives in the line of duty * B. Frank Sowell Lancaster Police 1937 * Walter T. Bell Highway Patrol 1939 * Curtis J Pope Constable 1943 * Coleman B. McAteer ...

Peay's Ferry / Peay's Ferry Road

(Front)

A ferry was operated on the Wateree River, at a point about 4 mi. W, as early as 1775. In 1808 ferry rights were granted to Thomas Starke, Jr. and Austin Ford Peay (d. 1841), planters with property in ...

N.W.M.P. Commanding Officer’s Quarters

Le logement du commandant de la P.C.N.O.

[English]

This handsome residence was built in 1902 for the commanding officer of the North West Mounted Police. It lent dignity, authority and a degree of permanence to the presence of law and order in ...

The Central Railroad of New Jersey (CRRNJ) Terminal

Emigrant (Immigrant) Waiting Room

After passing the Statue of Liberty and being processed at Ellis Island, where did the new Americans go?

Once declared “clearly and beyond a doubt, entitled to land” almost two-thirds of the immigrants processed at Ellis ...

Rhoads Opera House Fire

A disastrous fire destroyed the theater that stood at Philadelphia Ave. & Washington St. On Jan. 13 1908. It claimed 170 Victims, many buried here, due to overcrowding, poorly designed and unmarked exits, and inadequate fire escapes. The tragedy prompted ...

Fort Gibson: Oyster Banks to Batteries

The earliest fort on this site was built in 1794. Great Britain’s navy had been seizing American merchant ships and forcing their sailors into service on British vessels. Congress decided that the nation’s most important harbors should be defended in ...

Fort Gibson: Ammunition to Immigration

In the decades following the War of 1812, Fort Gibson continued to be used as a military installation. Large magazines were built to store explosive black powder, which was too unstable to be kept at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn. ...

Statue Facts

Height from base to torch 151’ 1” (46.50m)

Pedestal foundation to torch 305’ 1” (92.99m)

Length of hand 16’ 5” (5.00m)

Index finger 8’ 0” (2.44m)

Size of fingernail 13” x 10” (.33x.25m)

Head from chin to cranium 17’ 3” (5.26m)

Head width from ear to ...

Site of Old Goodnight Ranch

First ranch in the Texas panhandle

Established in 1876 by

Charles Goodnight

1836- 1929

Noted scout, Indian fighter, trail blazer

and rancher

The Burbank of the range

Marker is at the intersection of County Road 25 and U.S. 287, on the right when traveling south on County ...