Robesonia Furnace

Founded 1794 as Reading Furnace by ironmaster George Ege. In 1845 Henry P. Robeson expanded the furnace, spurring establishment in 1855 of the town of Robesonia. Although the furnace itself ceased operation and was razed in 1927, the Georgian-style ironmaster's ...

What Did Abraham Lincoln Eat?

Today many people refer to gardening as a hobby, but in the mid-19th Century many families depended on a kitchen garden to enrich their diets with seasonal foods such as fruits, vegetables and herbs. This recreated 19th Century kitchen garden ...

Wickenburg Massacre

In this vicinity, Nov. 5, 1871,

Wickenburg – Ehrenburg Stage ambushed by Apache

Mohave Indians.

John Lanz - Fred W Loring

P. M. Hamel - W. G. Salmon

Fredrick Shoholm and C.S. Adams were murdered

Mollie Sheppard died of wounds.

Marker is at the ...

British Blockhouse - 1777

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“Blockhouses, none of them finished.” -

Lt. John Starke, Royal Navy, September 1777

After the British captured Mount Independence on July 6, 1777, their military engineers decided to build six new blockhouses to augment American-built ...

Colonel Raynal C. Bolling

This grove is dedicated

to the memory of

Col. Raynal C. Bolling S.C. U.S.A.

Lawyer Patriot Soldier

Born 1 Sept. 1877 at Hot Springs Arkansas

Killed in action during the German offensive

near Amiens France 26 March 1918

The first American officer of high rank

to fall in ...

Henry Wickenburg

1819-1905

Founder of the Vulture Mine and town of Wickenburg

Sculptor Clyde Ross Morgan

Commission by the Wickenburg Rotary Club

Marker is on North Tegner Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Everett Bowman

All-Around Champion Cowboy of the World

b. July 12, 1899 Hope, NM

d. October 25, 1971 Wickenburg, AZ

-Known as the cowboy's cowboy

-Admired and revered by townsfolk

Father and organizer of Turtle Association 1936 which became the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association

-1937 Owned Heart Cross ...

Battlefield Historic Restoration Project

In 2004, Ball's Bluff Battlefield Regional Park began a restoration project on the battlefield where you stand today. The objective of the effort is to return about 12 acres of the battlefield to its approximate appearance in 1861.

First hand ...

The Old Brick Post Office

The Old Brick

Post Office

Has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on Frontier Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Von Schmidt State Boundary Monument

This marker commemorates the iron column erected in 1876 at the southernmost tip of the boundary survey line run by Allexey W. Von Schmidt, U. S. astronomer and surveyor. The line dividing Nevada and California was based on preliminary geodetic ...