John Muir, Foster Son of Wisconsin

Born in Scotland April 21, 1838

He came to America as a lad of eleven, spent his 'teen years in hard work clearing the farm across this lake, carving out a home in the wilderness. In the "Sunny woods overlooking ...

Navy Gun Car

Mounting 14" - 50 Caliber Naval Gun

One of the

United States Naval Railway Batteries

Designed, constructed and shipped abroad

by the

Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department

Placed in operation in France

and

Manned by naval personnel

Under the command ...

Three White Men Were Hung Here

Three white men were hung here in 1825 for killing Indians.

Marker can be reached from County Road 500 S near East Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Bingham-Brewer House

This two-story Federal structure is significant for its architecture and for its personal associations. The house is one of only two pre-1830 brick structures still intact in Rockville.

The front section is 24-feet high and 24-feet wide. It rests on brick ...

Hotaling Building

Built in 1866 and occupied by A.P. Hotaling & Co., this building housed the largest liquor repository on the West Coast. It survived the 1906 earthquake and fire due to a mile long fire hose laid from Fisherman's Wharf over ...

Sociedad Mutualista Mexicana in Texas City

In the 1870s native Tejanos organized Sociedades Mutualistas, mutual aid societies designed to protect their interests from the growing Anglo population of Texas. Although most of the early settlers of this area were of English, French, and German descent, increasing ...

Rice Culture in Colorado County

The rice industry did not spread into the coastal plains region west of Houston until the very end of the 19th century. In 1898, Captain William Dunovant (1845-1902), a local plantation owner and entrepreneur, planted 40 acres of rice at ...

S.S. Grandcamp Anchor

This anchor was blown from the S.S. Grandcamp when this ship blew up on April 16, 1947, while moored at Texas City Terminal docks. The anchor, which weighed approximately 3200 lbs. originally, was projected from the ship to a point ...

Lowndes County

Lowndes County was created by an act of the Georgia Legislature December 23, 1825, from lands previously in Irwin County. It was named for William J. Lowndes, a South Carolina statesman. The first count officers commissioned May 29, 1826, were ...

Elkhart County Courthouse

Side 1:

Elkhart County was formed by the Indiana General Assembly 1830; the first county seat was located in Concord Township. County commissioners relocated the county seat to Goshen 1831. Jacob Studebaker, Goshen, designed first brick courthouse, completed 1833. Barrows ...