Cornish Pump

A significant problem in mining is groundwater removal. Water limited the depth of early miners until the Cornish pump was introduced in the 18th Century. Cornish pumps originated in the tin and copper mining region of Cornwall, England, and evolved ...

Hacienda Mining Display

Preserved here is equipment used in quicksilver mining. A few examples are from New Almaden, but most are from the Guadalupe Mine and were used in the last fifty years of mining, until the mines closed in the 1970s.

The equipment ...

S.S. Palo Alto

Though hopelessly broken and firmly at rest, the cement ship Palo Alto has become an important legacy whose value has not decreased today. As the colorful chapters of her past resonate through her hull she is protected as a historic ...

Creating a National Park

[Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park]

“It is a refuge, a place of retreat, a long stretch of quiet and peace at the Capital …”William O. Douglas.

Look around you. The park you stand in exists because people cared. In January ...

PFC Floyd Everett Campbell

In Recognition of the 2nd Marine Division

Asian-Pacific Campaign World War II

The Battle for the Gilbert Islands

In Memory of Pfc. Floyd Everett Campbell

Killed in action during the amphibious

landing on Tarawa 20 November 1942

Purple Heart presented posthumous[ly]

Courtesy hmdb.org

Emporia's Mexican American Veterans Memorial

In honor of the Mexican American men and women of Emporia, Kansas, who proudly served their country

Killed in Action WWII

Jesse Garcia • Robert Ramirez

Courtesy hmdb.org

Emporia High School World War II Memorial

[Roll of Honored Dead]

Class of 1938

Glen P. Austin, Jr. • Carl F. Hancock • George W. Gibson, Jr. • Harold E. McCanis

Class of 1939

Dean Class • Vernon Hiatt, Jr. • Dale E. Fillmore • Joseph R. Sheen, Jr. • Jim ...

Lebanon, Grenada, and Panama Veterans Memorial

In honor of Veterans

who served in

Lebanon and Grenada

August 24, 1981 - July 31, 1984

Panama

December 20, 1989 - January 31, 1990

Courtesy hmdb.org

Emporia's Liberty Bell

Ship's Bell

Frigate

[USS] Emporia [(PF-28)]

Gift from

Department of

National Defense

James Forrestal

Secretary

1946

Marker is on Commercial Street (Kansas Route 99), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

All Veterans Memorial Park

In honor of

those who have served

in the Armed Forces of

the United States

of America

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Unknown

Lest We Forget

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Flag pole donated by

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7957.

In honor of those who

served and survived

and those who

served and died.

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Labor for this

All-Veterans Memorial

was provided by

the men and ...