Pioneer Graveyard

This graveyard was just

South of Fort Harrod.

The original fort was

located on the hill where

our present day parking

lot is. Over 480 grave

stones still remain in this

pioneer graveyard.

Marker can be reached from West Lexington Street west of South College Street (U.S. 127), ...

Pioche

Silver ore was discovered in this range of mountains in 1864, but no important development took place until 1869 when mines were opened and the town of Pioche appeared. Pioche soon became the scene of a wild rush of prospectors ...

Tres Pinos/Paicines

The original town of Tres Pinos had been here for more than a decade when its post office opened on January 24, 1971. The town lost use of its name after August 12, 1873, when the Southern Pacific Railroad opened ...

Karrick-Parks House / Harberson's Station

(obverse)

Karrick-Parks House

Bivouac for Confederate troops on Oct. 7, 1862, night before Battle of Perryville. Karricks ordered to vacate home the next day. Day after the battle they returned to survey damage, found little done. Officers, doctors lived in house for ...

Epsom Chapel

Built 1839 and located just West of this marker on land donated by Henry B. Chew of Epsom Estate, the chapel served Towsontown both as church and community center. The chapel was first used by Methodists and became the cradle ...

Hobo Spring

This spring, so named because it was used by the transients who came off the nearby Soo Line railroad, is one of the few original reminders of Waukesha’s 19th century springs and resort era.

A century ago, Waukesha was known ...

Providence Canyons

>>> -- 8 mi. -->

Trickles of water running down old Indian paths to springs formed the Providence Canyons, natural wonders of the Southeast.

These canyons, named for an old church that had to be moved out of their path, are ...

Sailors, Coast Guardsmen and Marines of African and Asian-Pacifi

Cooks, Stewards, and Messmen

In memory of all U.S. Sailors, Coast Guardsmen and Marines of African and Asian-Pacific Descent who honorably served officers as cooks, stewards and messmen on U.S. Navy ships and bases and who valiantly manned battle stations during ...

Pottersville

Named for prominent Potter family, the village was known early as “Lamington Falls.” Three counties merge at the river, Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset.

Marker is on Fairmount Road near Hollow Brook Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Futile Escape

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

I ordered [Lt. Jesse] Bean to take possession of the Island below, with forty men, to prevent the enemy's taking refuge there...as many of the enemy did attempt their escape...but not one were landed-they were sunk ...