The "Flume"

Looking east across Half Moon Lake from the northeast corner of Carson Park one sees the swimming beach and bath house. These structures are adjacent to the terminal point of a former engineering feat known then as the log flume. ...

Odd Fellows Hall

Built in 1854 by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, this hall was also shared with religious organizations of the Coloma community. The I.O.O.F. was only one of the many fraternal lodges that were active during the 1850s in Coloma ...

May 15, 1862—The Battle of Drewry's Bluff

When Federal gunboats rounded the distant bend in the James, they entered a shooting gallery. Confederate soldiers and Marines along the riverbanks raked the decks with musket fire. Confederate guns here in the fort opened fire. The river obstructions, consisting ...

The Geographic Center of the United States

Lat. 39º 50' Long. 98º 35'

Located by L.T. Hagadorn of

Paulette & Wilson - Engineers and

L.A. Beardslee - County Engineer.

From data furnished by

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Dedicated April 25, 1940

Marker is at the intersection of 130th Road (Kansas Route 191) and ...

Forest Hill Union Cemetery

On March 20, 1868, the Ohio General Assembly passed a revision to the Ohio Revised Code allowing for a municipality and a township to join together in purchasing land for a shared cemetery. On April 24, 1868, the Washington Township ...

Fredericksburg National Cemetery

Approximately 20,000 soldiers died in this region during the Civil War, their remains scattered throughout the countryside in shallow, often unmarked, graves. In 1865 Congress established Fredericksburg National Cemetery as a final resting place for Union soldiers who died on ...

First Bethlehem Pharmacy

First Bethlehem

Pharmacy,

In Clergy House

1743 - 1752

Established at this

stand,

1752.

Marker is on Main Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Second Battle of Fredericksburg

Five months after the Battle of Fredericksburg the Union army finally captured Marye's Heights. On May 5, 1863, General John Sedgwick's Sixth Corps streamed out of Fredericksburg to attack this ridge. Twice Confederates on the Sunken Road repulsed the assaults, ...

Baca Float Number 3

This was the northern boundary of Baca Float Number 3, one of five 100,000-acre grants made to the Baca family, in exchange for land taken from them in New Mexico. An attempt was made to relocate this grant to include ...

Field of Battle

This photograph, taken from the heights to your right-rear, shows the landscape in front of you as it appeared the year after the Battle of Fredericksburg. The town of Fredericksburg sits atop the ridge in the distance; the spire of ...