M60A3 (TTS) Main Battle Tank

the “Patton”

In service with the U.S. Army and U.S. Marines

1960 to 1991

Weight 58 tons • Crew of 4

Main Weapon 105mm Rifled Gun

This tank is dedicated to all veterans of

San Luis Obispo County who have served

our country.

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San Luis Obispo County Board ...

Catherine Kennedy Home

For the elderly. Grew from Ladies Benevolent Society, founded, 1845. First home, 1879, stood four blocks east.

Marker is on South 3rd Street (U.S. 74) 0.1 miles south of Orange Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Jamaica Estates - A Residential Park

IN 1907, real estate developers Ernestus Guilick and Felix Isman purchased 500 acres of land north of the Colonial Village of Jamaica, here they established the Jamaica Estates Corporation. Their purpose was to erect an affluent resort with an English ...

History of San Mateo’s Bridges

In 1923, the cities of San Mateo, Burlingame, and Hillsborough began planning for a bridge to link the San Francisco Bay peninsula cities with East Bay and Central Valley communities. Even after the Dumbarton Bridge opened, in 1927, these municipalities ...

Lyles Station, Indiana

1886 --- Lyles Station, Indiana --- 1986

Dedicated to preserve the memory of Joshua Lyles

Lyles Station, Indiana, the State’s only remaining black-named community, was settled more than one hundred years ago by Joshua Lyles, a Freed Slave from Tennessee.

He encouraged other ...

First Congregational Church

Organized June 10, 1785

First and only church in vicinity for 40 years

Third edifice erected here 1872

Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street and William Street, on the right when traveling west on East Main Street.

Founding Family Memorial Statue

"The Homecoming"

On March 30, 1734, Benjamin Chambers, a Scots-Irish immigrant and millwright was granted a Blunston License by the Penn family to develop a 400-acre plantation and gristmill for the first Franklin County settlement, named the Falling Spring Settlement.

In the ...

The Greatest Sacrifice / Prelude to Gettysburg

The price of war is devastation. Franklin County paid the price when its county seat, Chambersburg, was burned to the ground in 1864. Invaded in 1862, 1863, and 1864 by Confederate forces, Franklin County has the distinction of suffering more ...

Ross's Battery Camp

Hurlbut's Division

U.S.

Camp of

Ross' Battery,

(2d Michigan), Hurlbut's (4th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

First position in line of battle April 6, 1862, was 7/8 mile south, at south side of Peach Orchard.

Marker can be reached from Cavalry Road 0 miles west of ...

Byram's Ford Battlefield

At 8 A. M. on October 23, 1864, Federal cavalry under General Alfred E. Pleasonton forced a crossing of the Blue River at Byram’s Ford and attacked the stone ridge, which was defended by Confederate troops under John S. Marmaduke. ...