The First United States Soldiers to Be Stationed at the Pass of

1848 – 1948

By authority of War Department Orders of

November 7, 1848

The First United States Soldiers

to be stationed at the Pass of the North

Camped in this Area

Regimental Headquarters and Six Companies

of the Third Infantry

Major Jefferson Van Horne Commanding

arrived in El ...

United States War Veterans Memorial

Dedicated

to the memory of all

United States War Veterans

June 25, 1939

Dedicatory Committee

United Spanish War Veterans

Veterans of Foreign Wars

American Legion

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Pilot Knob Road (County Road 31) and Acacia Boulevard.

Courtesy hmdb.org

United States Capitol Grounds

[Diagram of Capitol Square - East and West Plazas]

General Plan for the Improvement of the U.S. Capitol Grounds by Frederick Law Olmstead, 1874

Following the extension of the Capitol in the 1850s-1860s, the grounds were enlarged in 1872. ...

Second Bank of the United States

[Top Marker]

This Building Erected in 1817

for a branch of the

Second Bank of the United States

was acquired in 1835, and has been

occupied continuously since that

date by the Bank of Charleston

whose name was changed in

1926 to

The South Carolina National Bank

This was the ...

United States Pipe and Foundry Company

On March 3, 1899, the United States Pipe and Foundry Company was incorporated consolidating 14 iron and steel foundries in 9 states. One of these foundries, the Howard-Harrison Iron Company of Bessemer, was founded in 1889. In 1911, the Dimmick ...

United States Army Tank Corps

This spot marks the site of Camp Colt, the birthplace of the Tank Corps of the United States Army in the spring of 1918. Behind this marker stands a tree planted in soil from each of the 48 States and ...

Fourth United States Colored Heavy Artillery

The Fourth United States Colored Heavy Artillery was initially organized as the Second Tennessee Heavy Artillery, African Descent and also briefly known as the Third Mississippi. Despite its initial designation as a Tennessee unit and second assignment to Mississippi, the ...

United States Indian Vocational Training School

Established 1891

This fountain and building erected 1922

Charles H. Burke

Commissioner of Indian

Affairs.

"The Indian will become an asset or a liability as we cultivate or fail to cultivate his body, mind and soul with a view to fitting him for an ...

Crash of a United States B-52 Bomber

This monument is dedicated to the citizens of this area who gave their time and their energy and their skill, for more than five days in sub zero weather and deep snow, to assist the air and ground rescue teams ...

The Geographic Center of the United States

Lat. 39º 50' Long. 98º 35'

Located by L.T. Hagadorn of

Paulette & Wilson - Engineers and

L.A. Beardslee - County Engineer.

From data furnished by

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Dedicated April 25, 1940

Marker is at the intersection of 130th Road (Kansas Route 191) and ...