Overfalls Lightship

Lewes Maritime History Trail

The Lightship Overfalls is one of the 179 ships

that servrd as floating lighthouses on America's

three coasts and the Great Lakes between 1820

and 1985. Lightships were used where it was not

feasible to build a ...

Pioneer Museum

(Old County Jail)

The Pioneer Museum, located next to the Gallatin County Courthouse at 317 West Main, was the former County jail. Along with many museum exhibits showcasing the history of Gallatin County is an Historical Research Library. The photo archives, ...

Dr. Benjamin F. Pendery

BORN August 11, 1846

DIED April 26, 1905

This monument is dedicated to

Dr. Pendery, his family, and all the

men and women of medicine who were

moved here from the New Helvetia

Cemetery in 1955 – 1956.

Erected June 12, 1999 by the

Sacramento-El Dorado Medical ...

First Baptist Church of Salado

A Baptist revival was held on the banks of Salado Creek as early as 1854. By about 1860, members of area Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Church of Christ denominations were meeting in an ecumenical house of worship. Each group held ...

Bishop William McKendree

William McKendree was born in King William County in 1757. He soon moved with his family to present-day Greensville County, and later served in the Revolutionary War. In 1786, the county licensed him to keep a tavern at his house ...

Valley of Opportunity

To the Headwaters

Settlers came to the Gallatin Valley on the heels of the first Montana gold strike at Grasshopper Creek near Bannack, Montana, in 1862. As Meriwether Lewis had predicted, farmers found the valley well suited for agriculture. They planted ...

Camp of 45th Illinois Infantry

Marsh's Brigade - McClernand's Division

U.S.

Camp of

45th Illinois Infantry

Marsh's (2d) Brig., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

First position in line of battle April 6, 1862, was 300 yards S.E., on west side of Review Field.

Marker is on Sherman Road ¼ mile ...

Freemason Street Baptist Church

In May 1848 former members of the Cumberland Street Baptist Church organized to become the Freemason Street Baptist Church. A new church building was begun that year and completed and dedicated in May 1850.

The Reverend Tiberius Gracchus Jones, a ...

You Are Remembered – Rest In Peace

This marker has been dedicated in memory of more than six hundred persons of Japanese ancestry reinterred here in 1956 with several thousand others, whose remains were removed from New Helvetia Cemetery, the present site of Sutter Middle School ...

First People in the Gallatin Valley

To the Headwaters

For centuries distant and diverse tribes visited the Gallatin Valley to hunt. They stampeded buffalo over cliffs during the "dog days" before the acquisition of horses and guns. They hunted animals for food, clothing and shelter. They also ...