Patrick County / North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina was one of the original thirteen states. The first settlement was made on Roanoke Island, 1585, but was not permanent. Settlers from Virginia occupied the Albemarle region before 1663, in which year the colony of Carolina was ...

California State Capitol Park

HISTORY

When Spanish governors ruled the California territory, its capitol was moved from town to town between San Diego and Monterey.

San Jose had already been designated the capitol by the time California was granted statehood in 1850. In the next four ...

Battle of Alamance

Here was fought (I) on May 16, 1771, the Battle of Alamance. Opposing forces were colonial militia, mainly from the eastern part of the province, commanded by Governor William Tryon, and a band of frontier dwellers known as Regulators, who ...

The Salvation Army

1885 - 1960

This Plaque commemorates

the beginning of the

Salvation Army in

Maquoketa and the State of Iowa, May 1885.

Placed here, May 14, 1960,

on the occasion of

Maquoketa's 75th

anniversary celebration.

"What hath God wrought?"

Marker can be reached from South Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Summer Rusticators, the Tourist Trade and the Waukeag House Hote

With the help of steamship & train travel in the late 1800s, summer tourism peaked. But within a few short decades, the age of the auto and better roads to Bar Harbor - plus closing mines and quarries - led ...

Brazito Battlefield

One of the few battles of the Mexican War to be fought in New Mexico occured near here on Christmas Day, 1846. U.S. troops under Colonel Alexander W. Doniphan defeated a Mexican army commanded by General Antonio Ponce de León. ...

Oñate’s Route

On the Camino Real

Juan de Oñate, first governor of New Mexico, passed near here with his colonizing expedition in May, 1598. Traveling north, he designated official campsites (called parajes) on the Camino Real, used by expeditions that followed. In ...

Seven Days Battles

Gaines’s Mill

Along the slopes of Boatswain Creek, facing north and west, extended Porter’s position in the afternoon of June 27, 1862. The line was held by Sykes’s division facing north, and Morell’s facing west. Later McCall was thrown in to ...

Hunter Station

The 1860 Alexandria, Loudoun, and Hampshire Railroad station at this junction was called a flag stop - a passenger would step out and flag down the train to catch a ride.

At the time that the 1900 picture to the left ...

Georgia Veterans Memorial State Park

Camp Safety Patrol

Here begins “Georgia Veterans Memorial State Park.” This 1,200 acre tract of land was purchased by Crisp County Commissioners and given to the State of Georgia December 4, 1946 in grateful appreciation of, and as a living memorial ...