To All Pioneers Who Passed This Way to Win and Hold the West

Route of Sublette cut-off from Big Sandy to Bear River. Traversed after 1843 by emigrants to Oregon and California.

Marker is on U.S. 191 just north of Old Luman Road, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

St. Peter's Church

Two miles northeast is St. Peter's Church, built in 1703 in English bond. David Mossom, rector there for forty years, was the minister who married George Washington. According to one tradition, the wedding took place at St. Peter's Church.

Marker is ...

The Glen Echo Park Yurts

How they got here and what goes on inside them.

Yurts Around the World. These interesting and unusual buildings function as studios and classrooms in Glen Echo Park. Yurts have a long history. In Mongolia, yurts have been practical homes for ...

Pronghorn Antelope and the High Cold Desert

Dominated by sagebrush grasslands, the "high cold desert" provides habitat for one of the largest pronghorn antelope herds in the world. This region is home to 40,000 to 60,000 antelope, known as the Sublette Herd. The pronghorn has keen eyesight ...

Battery H, 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery

Battery H

3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery

1st Brigade 2d Division

Cavalry Corps

Mounted as a battery of light artillery May 6 1863

Second Section Participated in the Battle

Mustered in

January 19 1863

Mustered out July 25, 1865

Temporarily attached to

the 1st Brigade 2d Division

Cavalry Corps

from June 28 to ...

The De Forest Depot

Built in 1871

The DeForest Depot was built in 1871, at the time of the construction of the railroad line which connected Madison to Portage. Land for a depot was donated to the railroad by Isaac DeForest. Recognizing the importance of ...

To All Pioneers Who Passed This Way to Win and Hold the West

Route of Lander cut-off first government financed road in Wyoming. Officially called Ft. Kearney, South Pass and Honey Lake Road. Built in 1858 from Rocky Ridge to Ft. Hall to provide shorter route for emigrants.

Marker is on U.S. 191 1.7 ...

Sand Spring - A Stop on the Oregon Trail

This site is a crossing of the Lander Cut-off, the northern fork of the Oregon Trail. Originally called the Fort Kearney-South Pass-Honey Lake Wagon Road when it opened in 1858, it was the first federally-funded road project west of the ...

Sandy Point & Cherry Hall

Charles City County, Virginia

Originally home to the Paspahegh Indians, Sandy Point was settled in 1617 as Smith's Hundred and after 1619 known as Southampton Hundred. St. Mary's Church was established here prior to the Powhatan Uprising of 1622. During ...

Chinese Temple

Dedicated in the spring of 1863, this building served as a temple of worship for 10,000 Chinese then living here. Funds for its erection and furnishings were provided by the Emperor and Empress of China and local Chinese labor built ...