John A. “Snow-Shoe” Thompson

[Upper Marker:]

As a Tribute

To a great compatriot from Telemark

This plaque was presented

by the Norwegian Olympic Ski Team

Competing at Sqaw Valley

In February 1960

[Lower Marker:]

Dedicated to

John A. “Snow-Shoe” Thom(p)son

Born April 30, 1827, in Tinn (Atra), Telemark, Norway. Died May 15, 1878 near ...

Japanese Monument to The Heroes of the Alamo

To the Memory of

The Heroes of the Alamo

[Poem in Chinese follows]

Japanese Monument

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Jordan Dam and Power Plant

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Dr. Charles E. Jefferson

On the site of this building Dr. Charles E. Jefferson, internationally known preacher, lecturer & author was born August 26, 1860. An advocate of world peace.

Marker is on Wheeling Avenue (U.S. 40) east of 9th Street, on the right when ...

John Marshall's Farm

Near this location stood Chickahominy Farm, the country residence of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall. Spending weekends at the farm with his wife, Marshall wrote that farming provided many hours of "laborious relaxation." Born in 1775, Marshall fought in the ...

Major Robert Anderson

In honor of

Major Robert Anderson

and the one-one-hundred-twenty-eight men of his command

who for thirty-four hours April Twelve-Thirteen,

Eighteen-hundred-sixty-one withstood the destructive

bombardment of Fort Sumter and withdrew with the

honors of war • the War of Secession began here.

Erected under the bequest of

E.M.C.A. ...

We Salute John “Snowshoe” Thompson / A Tribute From Three Luther

We Salute John “Snowshoe” Thompson

On his homemade snowshoes John carried the mail and supplies over the snowy Sierras for 20 winters. As he traveled, he saved the lives of seven people who were snowbound in mountain cabins. In 1866, ...

The City of Ajo

Ajo was first located on the ground that later became the open pit mine.

The modern city was founded in its present location in 1917 coincident with the beginning of large scale mining of the copper deposits.

Ajo is the home of ...

John & Dennis Searles Wagon Routes

1875 - 1895

This monument commemorates two wagon routes used by the Searles brothers to haul borax from their plant on Borax Lake (now Searles Lake) to the railhead at Mojave. The southern route traveled west of the Trona Pinnacles ...

John Floyd Arrowood

1891-1925

Born two miles west April 1891, Arrowood was one of the first American soldiers to be decorated for bravery in World War I. The French government, on Nov. 14, 1917, awarded him the Croix de Guerre for the rescue of ...