Pony Express Bridge

[Front of Marker:]

Dedicated April 23, 2000

WEST SACRAMENTO

by

James Stretesky

First Northern Bank

Daniel F. Ramos Family

Frank C. Ramos Family

Dr. & Mrs. James O. Farley

West Sacramento Land Company

West Sacramento Chamber of Commerce

Pony Express Trail Association

[A list of sponsors is on bottom of base]

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Delaware Memorial Bridge

1951 — 1968

South Span — Dedicated August 16, 1951

North Span — Dedicated September 12, 1968

Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey dedicated these bridges on September 12, 1968 to the men and women of the State of Delaware and the State of ...

Home Guard Defended Covered Bridge / Bridging The Black Warrior

(Front):Home Guard Defended Covered Bridge3 April 1865 - Brig Gen John T. Croxton’s Cavalry Brigade departed camp at Johnson’s Ferry (Old Lock 17 area) to the Watermelon Road ending in Northport. As the Union troops entered Northport, the Methodist Church ...

Bottom's Bridge

On 20 May 1862, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Union army crossed the Chickahominy River over Bottom's Bridge into Henrico County. Here Maj. Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes's Federal corps advanced over the bridge unopposed. As McClellan's army advanced on Richmond, ...

Grapevine Bridge

Here stood Grapevine Bridge across which, on the night of June 27, 1862, part of McClellan's Army moved in changing base from the Pamunkey to the James after the Battle of Gaines' Mill. "Stonewall" Jackson pursued, June 29.

Marker is on ...

Rivers Bridge Confederate Dead

( Front face )

In Memory

of our

Confederate Dead

who fell in battle at

River's Bridges

Feb. 4, 1865.

(Reverse face )

Soldier's rest, your welfare o'er,

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,

Dream of battlefields no more,

Days of ...

New Bridge

The first "New Bridge" erected in 1745 it was a strategic crossing during the Revolution, used by Washington'a Army during the 1776 retreat. In 1888/89, the wooden span was replaced by this iron swing-bridge, now the oldest such bridge of ...

Rivers Bridge State Historic Site

( Left side )

The Legacy of Total War

From January to March in 1865 more than

60,000 Union soldiers led by General

William Tecumseh Sherman marched

across South Carolina. They brought

total war to the state, destroying

railroads, factories and farms and

attacking civilian ...

Whitney M. Young, Jr. Memorial Bridge

Named in honor of

Whitney Moore Young, Jr.

1921-1971

Humanitarian-scholar and venerable leader of the National Urban League whose work produced landmark changes in civil rights laws and notable progress towards social and economic justice in America.

Marker is on ...

New Bridge Inn

1739 – 1964

Built in 1739-40 by Peter P. Demarest. In 1766 he received a license from the local court to “keep a Tavern or Public House” here. The old inn witnessed many stirring events during the American Revolution.

In November 1776, ...