Mill Creek Zanja

Spanish missionaries introduced the principle of irrigation in San Bernardino Valley, thus opening the way to settlement. Franciscan Fathers engineered, and Indians dug, this first ditch (or "zanja") in 1819-20. In historical sequence the zanja supported the San Bernardino Asistencia, ...

Commodore Jones Point

Named for Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, founder of the Naval Academy and War of 1812 hero. As Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Jones landed at Monterey 1842, raising the Stars and Stripes under misapprehension of war with Mexico. From 1848 ...

Mother of Stonewall Jackson

In this vicinity (and according to tradition two miles east at peach orchard) was born Julia Beckwith Neale, mother of Stonewall Jackson, February 29, 1798. She married Johnathan Jackson in 1818 and died, October 1831.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Jackson's Command

Hays' Brigade, Ewell's Division

C.S.A.

Jackson's Command.

Hays' Brigade, Ewell's Division.

Brig. Gen. Harry T. Hays, Commanding.

Organization.

5th Louisiana Infantry,

6th Louisiana Infantry,

7th Louisiana Infantry,

8th Louisiana Infantry,

14th Louisiana Infantry.

September 16-17, 1862.

Hays' Brigade encamped on the night of the 16th in the woods northwest of the Dunkard ...

Jordan & Salt Lake City Canal

The foundation work on the Salt Lake Temple was nearing completion and soon would be ready for the granite upper walls. The four day trip from the quarry with oxen-drawn wagons could not possibly provide stone as quickly as it ...

Lincoln Speech July 27, 1858

"You can fool all the people part of the time and part of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time."

Spoken in an address in Clinton July 27, 1858 by

Abraham Lincoln

"I ...

Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District / A Friend of Lincoln

[Larger Marker]:

Abraham Lincoln

traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District

1847 - 1859

[Smaller Marker]:

In Memory

John R. Thompson

1830 - 1895

A Friend of Lincoln

Marker is on Lincoln Trail Road east of County Route 200E, on the left when ...

Abraham Lincoln at Cadiz Junction

Here, February 14, 1861, Abraham Lincoln alighted from a train en route from his home in Illinois to the nations’s capital, where on March 4th he would become our sixteenth President. Cadiz Junction, a breakfast stop for the President Elect, ...

Green's Battery - Jones's Artillery Battalion

Early's Division - Ewell's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps - Early's Division

Jones's Artillery Battalion

Green's Battery - Louisiana Guard Artillery

Two 10 pounder Parrotts, Two 3 inch Rifles

July 1 Arrived on the field with Early's Division Placed in position to the right ...

Tanner's Battery - Jones's Artillery Battalion

Early's Division - Ewell's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps - Early's Division

Jones's Artillery Battalion

Tanner's Battery

Courtney (Virginia) Artillery

Four 3 inch Rifles

July 1 Arrived on the field with Early's Division. Moved into battery on north side of Rock Creek. Opened an effective ...