The Pony Express

by

A stone from the U.S. Post Office

1898 - 1940

Marker is on Penn Street near 12th Street, on the right when traveling east.

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Transcontinental Telegraph

Electrical Engineering Milestone

Between July 4 and October 24, 1861, a telegraph line was constructed by the Western Union Company between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, thereby completing the first high-speed communications line between the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. This ...

Joseph Wheeler

Born on this site Sept. 10, 1836

Lt. Gen. Com. Confederate Cavalry 1865

Maj. Gen. Com. U.S. Cavalry 1898

"His name and fame will live and be loved as long

as noble deeds are honored among men"

Placed by

Annie Wheeler Auxiliary No. 3, U.S.W.V.

Marker ...

Trough Springs

Well known spring in the 1800's where travelers watered horses and livestock before crossing Monte Sano on Big Cove Pike. In late 1863, Captain Lemuel Mead's Partisan Rangers attacked railroads, wagon trains, and forage parties behind enemy lines in North ...

Sentinel Peak

Used as a lookout and for signal fires by the Indians prior to and since 1692 and later by early settlers

Marker is on South Sentinel Peak Road, on the left when traveling north.

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Centro Español de West Tampa

Centro Español de West Tampa

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

1974

Marker can be reached from North Howard Avenue north of West Cherry Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Deer Park Hotel

Since the mid-18th century an establishment for public hospitality has existed here. The first building, of wood construction, was known as St. Patrick's Inn. Famous visitors included surveyors Mason and Dixon. The property was purchased by James S. Martin in ...

Great Indian Warrior / Trading Path

(The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road)

The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/Warrior Paths. Indian treaties among the governors of NY, ...

Rocketts Landing and Wharf / Confederate Navy Yard / Powhatan’s

(bottom panel)

Rocketts Landing and Wharf

Rocketts is the river frontage and community named for Robert Rockett, who operated a ferry across the James River beginning in the 1730s. Over the years, tenant laborers and merchants filled the floodplain with clusters of ...

Dr. Robert Semple

In Memory of

President First Constitutional

Convention September 4, 1849.

A member of the Bear Flag Party

June, 1846. One of the founders

of Colusa 1850. Died Oct. 1854.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Zumwalt Road, and Crawford Road, on the right when ...