Great Salt Lake City Station

This Monument

Marks the Site of the

Great Salt Lake City Station

of

The Pony Express

St. Joseph Mo. Sacramento Cal.

Inaugurated April 3,

1860

Marker is on South Main Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Town Plantation

The area now called Old Town Plantation is shown on maps dating to the early 18th century. It was called Ogeechee Old Town because of the ancient Creek Indian town that Carolina traders visited before Georgia was founded in 1733.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus

Circa 458 BC

The legendary Roman is seen here after he had defeated the Aequians and rescued the trapped Roman army. With one hand he returns the fasces, symbol of power as appointed dictator of Rome. His other hand holds ...

The State House of South Carolina

[Left Inscription]

Construction of this State House was begun in 1855 and continued uninterruptedly to February 17, 1865 when Sherman burned Columbia.

Work was resumed in 1867 and carried on irregularly to 1900.

[Right Inscription]:

The architect of this State House was

John R. Niernsee

born ...

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone has been designated a U.S. Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site, and is one of the largest national parks in the lower 48 states. Its boundaries protect over 10,000 geysers,hot springs, mudpots, and steam vents-the earth's largest array of ...

The National Park System

The national park idea is often referred to as one of America's greatest contributions to world culture. America's natural and cultural heritage—its very character and soul—is preserved in over 360 units of the National Park System.

The National Park Service administers ...

Historic Lake Pepin: Birthplace of Waterskiing

"I decided that if you could ski on snow, you could ski on water." In 1922, after first trying barrel staves, then snow skis, eighteen year old Ralph W. Samuelson succeeded in waterskiing on eight foot long pine boards, steamed ...

Harnessing Water Power

Downstream from where the current Gervais Street

Bridge now stands, Dr. Frederick W. Green owned and operated a lumberyard, and ran a grist mill to grind flour and corn. A native of New England, Green came South in the 1830s. Water ...

Battle of Springfield

At this site during the Battle of Springfield on June 23, 1780, the Americans, consisting of Continental Dragoons and the militia of this and surrounding neighborhoods, under Colonel “Light Horse” Harry Lee, Colonel Matthias Ogden, and Captain George Walker, encountered ...

St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church

Mother Church of Black Catholics in Georgia

In May 1874 two Benedictine priests arrived

in Savannah to work with the city's African-

American community, and constructed a

church four blocks north of here. In 1889

a new building was constructed at this site.

The Society of ...