Battle of Westport

Action on the Third Day

Near this point on the morning of October 23, 1864, Capt. Richard A. Collins' Confederate battery of Shelby's Brigade went into action, supported by two cavalry battalions. for two hours this battery dueled with the ...

El Paso's First Newspaper

El Paso Del Norte where the Centuries Meet

El Paso's First Newspaper

Near this spot in 1860, grew a cottonwood tree on whose broad breast were posted many public and private notices. In one of these on August 6th, 1860, Anson Mills ...

Pettengill Home

Site of

Pettengill Home

Saumel Pettingill, Capt.

5th Co. Third Tryon County

Militia, Killed in Battle

of Oriskany Aug. 6, 1777.

House Burned in Raid, 1780.

Marker is on Denice Road near Simcer Road, on the right when traveling ...

The Public Inn

Constructed circa 1818 by John Adams at the NE corner of Madison St. and Williams Ave. Operated as an inn and boarding house by William E. Phillips from 1819-21; believed to have housed some delegates to the nearby Alabama Constitutional ...

Paul Revere House

Paul Revere House

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

this site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating or illustrating

the history of the United States

U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1961

Marker is on North ...

Signal Lanterns of Paul Revere

The Signal Lanterns of

Paul Revere

displayed in the steeple of this church

April 18, 1775

warned the country of the march

of the British troops to

Lexington and Concord.

Marker is at the intersection of Salem Street and Hull Street, on the right when traveling north ...

El Paso's Chinese Community

Chinese immigrants first arrived in El Paso shortly before the Southern Pacific Railroad completed its line here in 1881. The earliest immigrants opened a rooming house and a grocery store. Soon afterwards, the U.S. Government passed the Chinese exclusion act ...

The First United States Soldiers to Be Stationed at the Pass of

1848 – 1948

By authority of War Department Orders of

November 7, 1848

The First United States Soldiers

to be stationed at the Pass of the North

Camped in this Area

Regimental Headquarters and Six Companies

of the Third Infantry

Major Jefferson Van Horne Commanding

arrived in El ...

Horsham Township

Founded in 1717, comprises

16.5 square miles. Named for

a town in Sussex, England.

Site of Graeme Park,

residence of Governor Sir

William Keith 1717-1726.

First autogiro flight in

U.S. made here 1928, Pitcairn

Field - site became U.S.

Naval Air Station 1942.

Marker is on Easton Road (Pennsylvania Route ...

Nine of Primitive El Paso's Patriotic Heroes

To the memory of

nine of primative El Paso's

patriotic heroes

Emmett Mills

Aged 19

Freeman Thomas - Joe Poacher

M. Champion - John Pontel

Bob Avlin - John Wilson

Who in July 1861

were loyal citizens

of El Paso, Texas

and Loyal employees

of the Butterfield Overland Mail Co.

When all ...