Carson & Colorado

R. R. Freight Depot

This building, the first to be constructed in Hawthorne, is a remnant of the narrow-guage Carson & Colorado Railroad built south from Mound House in 1881. Railroad officials created the town from desert when the first ...

Carson McCullers

1917 - 1967

The family of author Carson McCullers moved to this house in 1927. Here Lula Carson Smith spent her formative years 10-17 and here she began to write, putting on shows in the two sitting rooms, using the sliding ...

Carson City

Original Station

[Front of Marker:]

Dedicated April 12, 1996

Carson City

Original Station

Apr. 3, 1860 - Nov. 20, 1861

by

Byron L. & Peggy Clark & Family

Bob & Tina McFadden

Mae & Jim Thorpe

The Bike Smith

Betty Young & Erica Young

Pony Express Trail Association

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Joseph L. Schroeder ?

Bud ...

Rachel Carson

Scientist, naturalist and writer. Born 1907 at 613 Marion Avenue; died 1964. Her 1951 book “The Sea Around Us” was followed in 1962 by “Silent Spring.” This book focused the nation's attention on the dangers of pesticides and helped launch ...

William E. Carson

William E. Carson, of Riverton, was the first chairman of the Virginia Conservation Commission, 1926-34. As such he was a pioneer and leading spirit in the establishment of the Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive; The Colonial National Historical Park; ...

Vance-Carson Duel

On Nov. 5, 1827, Robert B. Vance, Former N.C. Congressman, was fatally wounded in a duel by Samuel P. Carson, his successor. 1/2 mile S.E.

Marker is on Old US 25 (North Carolina Route 1265).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Kit Carson

On this spot, which marks the summit of the Kit Carson Pass stood what was known as the Kit Carson Tree on which the famous scout Kit Carson inscribed his name in 1844 when he guided the then Captain John ...

Carson House

1854

One of three complete adobe houses in New Almaden made of creek gravel and adobe mud.

In 1855 a plan of the settlement of the Hacienda, including all homes south of Casa Grande (the manager;s home), to the reduction works of ...

Naming of Carson Pass

In February of 1844, John C. Fremont led a group of men over these mountains as they struggled to reach Sutter’s Fort. Little did they know that the pass, which lay 20 to 30 feet under the snow beneath them, ...

A. Carson Stamm Residence

This stately Georgian Revival-styled edifice at 333. S. Thirteenth Street was completed in 1909 as the home of prominent Harrisburg attorney A. Carson Stamm (1863-1939); The building is unique both in location as a single home nestled within the older ...