First Presbyterian Church Confederate Veterans Monument

Men who served in the

Confederate States Army

from the congregation of

The First Presbyterian Church

Columbia, South Carolina

1861-1865

Dedicated to those who died

in gratitude to those who served

[List of 64 names]

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Members of this Congregation after 1865, who served

in the Confederate Army

[List of 22 names]

Marker ...

Our Changing Landscape-From Sea Floor to Mountain Top

•Colorado’s geologic history dates back nearly two billion years. Several mountain ranges have been uplifted and eroded away before the rise of today’s Rocky Mountains. The landscape you see in front of you has undergone many dramatic changes. This story ...

Operation Brass Knob

Laughlin Air Force Base pilots flew secret surveillance missions during the height of the Cold War. The Strategic Air Command formed the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing in 1956, utilizing high altitude Martin RB-57D and Lockheed U-2 aircraft for covert surveillance ...

Peapack- Gladstone Liberty Park

In honor of those who served in the World War. 1917–1919.

In memory of the men who lost their lives ... in honor of the men and women who also served in the armed forces of our country. World War II, ...

The Boys of Hope

In Memory of the Boys of Hope who served in World War I, and II, Korea and Vietnam giving supreme sacrifice

H. Vinal Hardy WW II

Eugene C. Dunbar WW II

John R. Goderre Vietnam

Marker is on Church Street east of Rt. 105, ...

Boiling Springs Academy

[Marker Front]:

Boiling Springs Academy was founded by the Boiling Springs Academical Society in 1823, with trustees Hansford Duncan, John Fowke, James Furse, William Gillette, Gideon Hagood, Frederick Hay, Lawrence Hext, James Higginbottom, Jennings O'Bannon, and Angus Patterson. The academy building, ...

Glacial Potholes

The potholes at the St. Croix Dalles have their origins in a tale of fire and ice. They are carved in a dark volcanic rock called basalt, which erupted as lava 1.1 billion years ago. This basalt is related to ...

U.S. Army Camel Corps

U.S. Army Camel Corps The proposal to use camels for commerce and transportation in the arid southwest came about in the 1830s, but it was under U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis that the idea became a reality. The first ...

Charlottesville General Hospital

During the Civil War, the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, the Charlottesville town hall and the courthouse, as well as nearby homes and hotels were converted into a makeshift hospital complex called the Charlottesville General Hospital. It treated more ...

The Pony Express

In

Commemoration of

The Pony Express

A fleeting but exciting epoch in the

Winning of the West

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Erected April 4, 1963

by Harrah’s

William F. Harrah, President

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The first Pony Express rider passed here

April 4, 1860 on his way to

Friday’s Station

A remount point 4/10ths of a ...