Fuente de los Caños de San Francisco

The set of masks that decorate this fountain was a gift to the City of St. Augustine by its sister city in Spain, the City of Avilés, birthplace of Pedro Menéndez, founder of St. Augustine in 1565.

Presented in 2005 ...

Last Confederate Bivouac

A Confederate force under General Bradley T. Johnson camped here July 31, 1864, after raiding and burning Chambersburg. They were the last Confederates to camp on Pennsylvania soil.

Marker is at the intersection of Great Cove Road (U.S. 522) and Confederate ...

Last Confederate Bivouac

General Bradley T. Johnson

of the

Confederate Army

encamped 20 rods west

of this marker at

the Patterson home

July 31, 1864

after the burning of

Chambersburg

This was the last

Confederate bivouac

north of the

Mason and Dixon line.

Dedicated by

the Pittsburgh Chapter

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Designed for Defense

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

...[The Creek] had erected a breast-work, of greatest compactness and strength-from five to eight feet high, and prepared with double rows of port-holes very artfully arranged...an army could not approach it without being exposed to a ...

Fresh Pond

Elevation 78 Ft.

Here original settlers

lived in caves and shelters.

Site of first church 1772

Pastors

Oliver Dodge, Trustrum Dodge

Nearby site of first

school house, windmill, pound,

precious spring.

Indian burying hill

Marker is at the intersection of Lakeside Dr. and Old Center Rd. on Lakeside ...

Murder of Captain Hart

Captain Nathaniel G. T. Hart, brother-in-law of Henry Clay and inspector general of American Army of the Northwest under Harrison, was killed here during the massacre of the River Raisin January 22 - 23, 1813.

Captain Hart, wounded in battle, ...

Renaissance Mayflower Hotel

This hotel opened February 18, 1925. Its first major event was the inaugural ball of President Calvin Coolidge. It has entertained every president since and has been the residence of a number of vice presidents, cabinet members, supreme court justices, ...

The Geology of Perrot State Park

Millions of Years Ago

[drawing]

Millions of years ago, Trempealeau Mountain, the bluffs of Perrot State Park, and the Minnesota upland across the river were all one continuous rock mass. Over time, Cedar Creek, Big Trout Creek, and their tributaries carved channels ...

Mohegan Bluffs

Elevation 163 Ft.

1590 A war party of 40 Mohegan Indians

was driven over these bluffs by

Block Island Indians - The Manisseans.

Along this shore many

vessels were wrecked

S. Ann Hope • S.S. Leyden

Mars • Spartan

John Davis • Munago

S.S. Meteor • Lightburne

Luckenbach • Sch. ...

Old Federal Road

The road crossing east and west here is the Old Federal Road, western Georgia’s first vehicular thoroughfare. Beginning at Fort Hawkins (now Macon) it led across the Creek Indian Country to the Alabama River above Mobile. Permission to open the ...