Bataan Memorial Trainway

With the arrival of the railroads to El Paso in 1881, the train tracks marked the northern boundary of the city. As El Paso grew, the tracks divided downtown and created a time-consuming barrier for pedestrians and motorists. In the ...

Big Kill Devil Hill

26 Acres of Shifting Sand

Before construction of the memorial could begin, it would be necessary to stabilize the dune from which the Wright Brothers conducted their glider experiments. Twenty-five years of steady winds had moved Big Kill Devil Hill 450 ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

In 1775 during the travels of botanist William Bartram he first discovered golden St. John’s wort (his Hypericum aureum) near this site on Patsiliga Creek

Marker is at the intersection of Georgia Route 137 and Fickling Mill Road, on the ...

Covered Bridges

Lowell was the site of one of ten wooden covered bridges, built from 1820 to 1887, that crossed the Muskingum River from Marietta to Coshocton. The Lowell bridge was built in 1881. Bridges were built out of wood because there ...

Prisoners on the Plains / Ride 'Em Cowboy

Prisoners on the Plains

During World War II, a seasonal Prisoner of War Camp was located in Ovid. Nearly 400 German prisoners worked in nearby potato and sugar beet fields. Housing was provided in 40 tents and two large downtown buildings.Ride ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

William Bartram Visits Augusta

1773 for Indian Ceded Lands Treaty.

1775 said . . . ."Augusta would become

the Metropolis of Georgia"

Marker can be reached from 8th Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

William Bartram Visited Augusta, 1773.

"The village of Augusta." wrote the celebrated American naturalist and botanist of his visits in 1765 and 1773, "is situated on a rich and fertile plain of the Savanna River; the buildings are near its banks and extend two miles. ...

Killeen Graveyard and Cross Slab

Clew Bay Archaeological Trail site 15

This graveyard is now in the area known as Killeen. There is no trace of the early Christian church but there is a circular raised platform within the graveyard which could indicate where the original ...

See and Do,Off the Byway

Sites of Interest

Ovid, originally called "Morgan," began as a water stop on the Denver Line of the Union Pacific Railroad. A 1907 document approved a post office for the town under its new name.Jumbo Reservoir's 1906 completion created a controllable ...

El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Locomotive Number One

One of the oldest survivors of America's steam railroading era, this locomotive was built 29 years after the steam engine was first developed for transportation. Breese, Kneeland & Company of Jersey City, New Jersey also operated as the New York ...