Giant Kelp Beyond the Breakers

Historic Cannery Row

Off the coast and beyond the breaking waves, giant kelp provides a lush home for marine life. Holding fast to the rocky bottom, these huge plants grow upward then spread their green-gold fronds across the water, creating a ...

Spanning the Waters

Riverfrontiers

Before bridges, ferry boats did a brisk business transporting passengers and their goods from shore to shore. But sometimes even ferries couldn't get through the area's frozen rivers in winter time.

It was in 1815 that the first bridge spanned the ...

Newry World War II Memorial

To the Men and

Women of the Armed

Forces Whose

Unselfish Service

Preserving the Peace

of this Nation - This

Memorial is Humbly Dedicated

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway Street (State Road s37-203) and Palmetto Avenue, on the left when traveling east on Broadway Street. ...

Wall of Honor

Veterans of All Wars

[North Marker]: 2008 Plaque

[North Marker]: 2009 Plaque

[North Marker]: 2010 Plaque

[North Marker]: 2011 Plaque

[East Marker]: 2012 Plaque

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and North Depot Street, on the right when traveling east on Main Street.

Courtesy ...

Seton Village

Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), naturalist, artist, writer, authority on Indian lore, and first Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America, lived here during the last part of his life. The village includes his home, art collection, library, and Indian ...

Bicentennial Celebration / La Bajada

This is a two sided marker

Side A:

Bicentennial Celebration

This facility was built by the New Mexico State Highway Department to commemorate the

bicentennial birthday of the United States. Located 15 miles south of the plaza in Santa Fe, the nation's oldest capital ...

Memorial Park / The Scroll of Honor

[North Entrance]:

Clemson University

Memorial Park

This park honors Clemson University's

legacy of service.

It is a tribute to those who have served,

to those who are serving,

and to those who will serve.

[South Entrance]:

The Scroll of Honor

At Clemson University

This special place has been set aside to

honor ...

Ed Ricketts’s Backyard

Historic Cannery Row

You are looking at the backyard of Ed Ricketts’s lab, Pacific Biological Laboratories, where Ricketts lived and worked during the 1930 and 1940s. He collected and preserved tide pool plants and animals and sold them to schools around ...

One Man, Two Worlds

Historic Cannery Row

Doc, the legend

John Steinbeck used his close friend and collaborator, Edward Ricketts, as a model for the famous fictional character Doc. In the novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, set in the 1930s and 1940s, the kindly Doc ...

The Real “Docs”

Historic Cannery Row

Pictured at the right are scientists Frances Clark, W.I. Scofield, Richard Croker, M.J. Linar and J.B. Philips. Working out of Hopkins Marine Station, this group monitored the growing sardine industry by collecting samples from the canneries and keeping ...