Gutzon Borglum

(John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum)

His birthplace was Idaho. California first taught him art. Then France, who first gave him fame. England welcomed him. America called him home. His genius for the exquisite as for the colossal, gave permanence on ...

Bates County World War I Memorial

In Memory of Our

World War Veterans

Unveiled under auspices of

the American Legion Posts

of Bates Co.

May 30, 1927

Marker is at the intersection of Ohio Street and Delaware Street, on the left when traveling west on Ohio Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Copperopolis Bell and Cannon

[Displayed at the Copperopolis Elementary School are a bell and a cannon along with their accompanying markers:]

The Bell

This bell cast in 1860, the first school in Copperopolis in 1862. The bell yoke shows repair, break probably from school fire of ...

Black Bart at Funk Hill

Copperopolis

July 1875, at Funk Hill 4 miles due east Black Bart, alias Charles E. Bolton or Boles, wearing a flour sack mask and a linen duster, waving a double-barrelled shot gun held up the Wells Fargo Sonora to Milton Stage. ...

Leiser Building

Built 1896

Simon Leiser & Co., Wholesale Grocers, was the largest business of it kind in British Columbia when this warehouse was built. The building featured a central electric elevator with tracks radiating from the elevator on each floor for ease ...

William Brockman Bankhead Home

1874-1940

William Brockman Bankhead served Alabama in the U.S. Congress from 1917 until 1940.

For the last four years of his life, during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, he served as the 47th Speaker of the House.

He was the son of U.S. Senator ...

Buckland Mills Battle

Custer's Position

(Preface): On October 19, 1863, 12,000 Confederate and Union cavalry clashed at the Battle of Buckland Mills in the last large-scale Confederate victory in Virginia. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, screening the Confederate infantry’s march to Culpeper County, blocked Union Gen. ...

About This Fountain...

This beautiful, ornamental water fountain was built in the early 1900s as part of the Bay Shore Amusement Park. Operating between 1906-1947, the park was located on approximately 20 acres of property in this area. The primary purpose of the ...

The Rebirth of a Maryland Historical Treasure

Originally built in 1906 by the United Railways and Electric Company on this site, stood the once grand Bay Shore Park Restaurant. As the picture below captures the beauty of the former building's elaborate architecture complete with pergolas and towers, ...

American Legion Armed Forces Tribute

(Candler County Georgia)

Dedicated to

all the residents of the county

who served in the Armed Forces

of our country

during World War I, World War II

and the Korean War

and in memory of

those who died in service

Marker is on West Broad ...