Father Edouard Gerard

Founder First Catholic Church in Phoenix, 1881

The first priest ordained in Arizona, Father Edouard Gerard, attended the Catholic people of Phoenix from Florence, Arizona, where he was the pastor of the Church of the Assumption from 1877 to 1885. For ...

Fifth Fighter Squadron

Fifty Second Fighter Group

106 Aerial Victories Flying

British Spitfires & P-51 Mustangs

Europe • Africa • Mediterranean Theaters

1942 - 1945

Two Distinguished Unit Citations

Twelve Battle Honors

Dedicated 1987 in memory of all

“Spitten Kittens”

Courtesy hmdb.org

Confederate Dead

Here rest 34 Confederate soldiers, all of whom died in the Confederate hospitals located in Thomaston. These men came from seven of the Confederate states. Only six are “unknown” graves. Hospitals located here were the Newsom, Frank Ramsey and several ...

Donaldson Air Force Base / Captain John O. Donaldson

Donaldson Air Force Base

Greenville Army Air Base opened on this site in 1942 and trained B-25 bomber crews during World War II. Emphasizing air transport after 1945 and renamed Donaldson Air Force Base in 1951. It was the home ...

Canal Farm Inn

This original San Joaquin Valley Ranch headquarters of California pioneer and cattle baron Henry Miller (1827-1916), was established in 1873. His farsighted planning, development in the 1870’s of a vast gravity irrigation system, and the founding of Los Banos (1889) ...

Cobra AH-1G/S/F Helicopter

Cobra

AH-1G/S/F Helicopter

Length: 53'

Weight: 8,404 lbs.

Payload: 2500 lbs.

Range: 359 miles

Cruise Speed: 138mph

• Although a 1966 model this helicopter was purchased by the US Army in November 1967.

• Cobra 318 arrived in Vietnam in the beginning of Feb. 1968

• Feb. 12th, 1968 ...

Merced Falls

First known as California Ranche Crossing, then as Belt’s Ferry. The site of a large Indian Rancheria. The Post Office at Merced Falls opened Sept. 4. 1856. The flour and woolen mills were built in 1854 and 1867. The town ...

The Rail Chains Final Link

Pacific Atlantic

A continuous chain of rails from Atlantic to Pacific -- long a vision of pioneer railroaders and frontier-tamers -- became reality at 3:00 P.M. on August 15, 1870. At a point 3,812 ft. east of the depot in what ...

South Carolina Troops at Battle of Averasboro, NC

On this field March 15-16 1865 men of South Carolina stood with men of other Southern States and fought bloodily and bravely for their beliefs and way of life. In doing so they wrote their names in imperishable letters in ...

Battle of Boykin's Mill

Gen. Edward E. Potter commanding 2700 white and Negro Union troops left Georgetown April 5, 1865, to destroy the railroad between Sumter and Camden. Here on April 18, in one of the last engagements of the war, a small force ...