Andrew Atkinson Humphreys

Cadet U.S. Military Academy July 1 1827, Brevet Second Lieutenant 2d U.S. Artillery July 1 1831, Second Lieutenant July 1 1831, First Lieutenant August 16 1836, Resigned September 30 1836, First Lieutenant Topographical Engineers U.S. Army July 7 1838, Captain ...

Elizabeth Moore at Dorchester Academy 1925-1932

Dorchester Academy

In 1925, Elizabeth B. Moore began her six-year tenure as Dorchester Academy's only female, African American principal. She insisted that both parents and community accept responsibility for supporting the school. She believed that charity and tuition breaks should be ...

Lincoln at Stockton Hall

Campaigning for the Presidency of the United States, Abraham Lincoln crossed the Missouri River from St. Joseph to Elwood, Kansas Territory, on December 1, 1859. From there, he was driven in a horse-drawn buggy to Leavenworth.

On December 3, 1859, he ...

Samuel Powhatan Carter

Aug 6, 1819 – May 26, 1891

Born in this house. After attending Washington College and Princeton, graduated from U.S. Naval Academy; serving in the Navy until May 1, 1862, he was appointed brigadier general, U.S. Volunteers. His most conspicuous service ...

Tri-State Mining Machinery

An exhibit of

Tri-State Mining Machinery

featuring the

Ben R. Markley Collection

presented to the

Tri-State Mineral Museum

by his family

as a memorial to their father

and his interest in collecting

and preserving the machinery

that played a major role in

the development of the

Tri-State Mining District

Marker can be reached ...

Abbott Way Station

Circa 1917

On this site was one of the first rest-over businesses in the Virgin Valley. Here an early version of an adobe brick house was used as a small grocery store with a separate wash house that had shower and ...

The Alabama Theatre

Built 1927

Built by the Publix Theater division of Paramount Studios. This movie palace opened on December 26th, 1927. The theatre, in Spanish / Moorish design by Graven and Mayger of Chicago, seated 2500 in a five story, three-tiered auditorium. Paramount's ...

Bat Caves

Cave History

Workers for the Hagensieck brewery created these cave openings around 1867 using picks, shovels and blasting powder. They used the caves to store ice and beer until the brewery closed in 1888. Hundreds of bats used the caves until ...

Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates

Carolina Legends

The great tap dancer Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates began his career in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. After a cotton gin accident took his leg, many felt his life was over. Through perseverance and determination, Peg Leg Bates is known ...

Battle of Rader's Farm

May 18, 1863

In memory of

18 U.S. Soldiers

killed in action

3 miles north of this park

Courtesy hmdb.org