Kalispel Fishing (q̓q̓m̓éyeʔi)

The Kalispels are river people. Their homelands follow the Pend Oreille River and fishing is a prominent part of their traditional lifeways. Today, the fishery remains an important natural resource on the Kalispel Reservation. Each year, with the thaw of ...

National Historic Landmark - Howard High School

First Secondary School for Blacks in Delaware

Founded in 1867 by the Association for the Moral Improvement and Education of Colored People and named for Civil War General Oliver Otis Howard, the original school was located at 12th and Orange Streets.

Pierre ...

National Historic Landmark - New Echota

Cherokee National Capital

The sprawling town of New Town which had stood here since 1819 was designated the seat Of government for the Cherokee Nation in A legislative act of 1825 and it was renamed New Echota for a former principal ...

National Historic Landmark- Virginia City, Nevada

[Located in the center of town is a monument on which there is mounted six markers commemorating historical events and people of Virginia City]

West Side - Front of Monument:

In June of 1859 in Gold Canyon, a second group of Prospectors ...

Hutchinson's Historic Fox Theatre

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Est. 1931

Marker is on 1st Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Pickens County Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial

Private Charles H. Barker, United States Army

April 12, 1935-June 4, 1953

of

Six Mile

Company K, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division

Killed in Action at Sokkogae, Korea, June 4 1953

Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Posthumously

October ...

National Historic Landmark - Phoenix Shot Tower

Built in 1828 by the Phoenix Shot Tower Company, this soaring 215 foot structure is the last remaining shot tower of the three that accented Baltimore’s skyline in the 19th century. Shot pellets used as ammunition for muskets was produced ...

Maritime Prehistory

Archaeology has helped us learn a lot about life in prehistoric Pensacola. Although little archaeological evidence exists from Pensacola’s earliest Paleoindian residents, sites from later periods reveal a strong reliance on the marine landscape. Local salt and fresh waterways provided ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Snelling

This historical ground was a pivotal place in the development of the Northwest. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Fort Snelling expanded its limestone walls into this area, formerly a part of the U.S. Indian Agency and ...

National Historic Landmark - Coloma

An Artist's View

”The principle street of Coloma was alive with crowds of moving men, passing and repassing, laughing, talking, and all appearing in the best of humor. It was a scene that no other country could ever imitate.”

from “A California ...