Union Pacific #4012

Locomotive #4012 is a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy. The Big Boys were the longest and among the largest and most powerful steam locomotives in the world.

Even with their great size, the Big Boys were capable of reaching speeds in excess of ...

Tift County

This County, created by Act of the Legislature August 17, 1905, is officially named for Nelson Tift, well known businessman, legislator and Mayor of Albany. The organizers also had in mind his nephew Henry Harding Tift, who founded Tifton in ...

Jefferson Davis Memorial State Park

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On May 4, 1865, Jefferson Davis arrived in Washington, Georgia (178 miles NE of the Park), where he performed his last duties as President of the Confederate States of America. Shortly thereafter, with a small staff and escort, he departed ...

United States Post Office

Woodbridge, New Jersey 07095

The original post office of Woodbridge, established July 31, 1792, was located at the Cross Keys Tavern on the northwest corner of Amboy Avenue and Main Street. The first postmaster appointed by Postmaster General Timothy Pickering was ...

Old Munford Inn

One block west stands a log inn built on a pioneer trail in 1810 by Thomas Munford, brother of founder of Munfordville. Among the many distinguished guests was Gen. Andrew Jackson in 1829 enroute to his inauguration as seventh president ...

Fort Jefferson

Built by the Army of

General Arthur St. Clair

in October 1791

and used as a military post

during the campaigns against

the North-Western Indian tribes

MCMVII

Marker can be reached from Weavers-Fort Jefferson Road 0.1 miles west of Ohio ...

The Town of Guilford

Patuxent Branch Trail

The Town of Guilford

History

Once, a thriving community prospered here along the banks of the Little Patuxent River. Guilford was a center for milling, quarrying, and cotton=cloth production in the late 18th through the early 20th centuries. It ...

Site of Former Associate Reformed and United Presbyterian Church

1st Church Erected - 1840

2nd Church Erected - 1878

3rd Church Erected - 1914

Marker is at the intersection of Walnut Street (Pennsylvania Route 217) and Campbell Street, on the right when traveling north on Walnut Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Treaty of Greeneville

Anthony Wayne Treaty Memorial

Placed

to Commemorate the

Treaty of Greeneville

Signed August 3, 1795 by

General Anthony Wayne

Representing the

United States Government

and the chiefs and agents of the

Allied Indian Tribes

of the

Territory Northwest

of the Ohio River

MCMVI

Marker is at the intersection of South Broadway Street (Ohio Route ...

Summit of Mount Defiance

Marker #1:

Two historic waterways converge at Ticonderoga. Long before the region became important to European powers, Native Americans made a portage here for carrying canoes and gear between Lake George and Lake Champlain. The five-mile-long La Chute River ...