Crossing of the Fathers

Dominguez y Escalante Expedition 1776-1976

Within sight of this place the Franciscan priests Dominguez and Escalante and their ten companions experienced two of the most difficult challenges among many along the 1,800 miles of their epic journey from the Spanish presidio ...

"Father Bob"

To honor

Rear Admiral Robert James White

Chaplain Corps, United States Navy

We erect this tribute to

"Father Bob"

Priest, Chaplain, Lawyer, Educator

with gratitude,

esteem and affection

from the

World War Veterans

July 14, 1962

Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Courtesy hmdb.org

Father Marquette's Camp - 1674

Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit missionary who with Sieur Louis Jolliet discovered and first explored the upper Mississippi in 1673, stayed on this site November 23-27, 1674. Marquette, with two French Canadians, Pierre Porteret and Jacques Largillier, was returning ...