The Mortar Battery

Named Battery Meigs, these two pits contained eight large 12-inch mortars. Each huge mortar was capable of hurling a 700-pound projectile in a high arc. The simultaneous firing of all eight would insure a clustered group of shells falling on ...

Presbyterian & Catholic Churchs

Begun as missions in the late 1800's, Community Presbyterian Church here, and St. Peter's, a block east, moved into these permanent homes built respectively of brick (1918) & adobe (1928).

Marker is at the intersection of Apache Street and Supai, ...

Well-traveled Water

Did you know that Colorado Springs is almost a desert? Deserts receive less than ten inches of rain per year. The average precipitation in Colorado Springs is only about 15 inches per year. That’s pretty dry compared to Boston’s annual ...

Hillsborough County's Confederate Monument

Memoria In Aeterna

(West face)

1861

To the Honor and Courage

of the patriots of the

Confederate States

of America,

This monument is dedicated by

Tampa Chapter,

No.113, U. D. C.,

and the citizens of Tampa.

January 1911.

Memoria

In Aeterna.

(South face)

1865

Lest

We

Forget.

(East face)

1861

Not theirs the rush of ...

El Rio Theatre

Built c.1915 & originally called the Apache Theatre, this adobe movie house once showed silent flickers with a hand-cranked projector. Renamed the El Rio in 1937, Round Valley's first theatre is still operating with its original popcorn machine.

Marker is on ...

“… the battle itself proved a relief.”

In 1863 this was the home of James and Catherine Foster and their daughter, Catherine. Prior to the battle the town was cut off from communications, and rumors of approaching “Rebels” and the whereabouts of the Union army prompted the ...

The Catwalk

This steel causeway follows two pipelines which supplied water and water power to the old town of Graham where gold and silver ores were milled from nearby mines in the 1890's. The causeway clings to the sides of a sheer ...

The Water Battery

Strategically placed, this permanent section of the fort was the lowest level of the three tiers of guns. The Water Battery was designed to deliver "water-skipping" cannonade directed at the hulls of enemy ships.

The simple V-shaped design has undergone ...

Battery B, 1st New York Light Artillery

Artillery Brigade

(Front):Battery B

1st New York

Light

Artillery,

Artillery

Brigade,

2d Corps.

(Back):Position held

afternoon of

July 3d 1863.

Casualties;

Killed 10,

Wounded 16.

(Left):Mustered

into service

Aug. 31, 1861.

participated

in 78 days

of battle.

Mustered out

of service

June 16, 1865.

(Right):Organized at

Baldwinsville

Onondaga Co.

New York.

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Greathouse Station and Tavern

In late November, 1880, William “Billy the Kid” Bonney, David Rudabaugh and William Wilson were hiding out near here at a store and tavern operated by James Greathouse and a partner named Kuch. The night of November 27, they were ...