Trumpeter Swans

This marsh area is the nesting and year-round home of the rare trumpeter swan. In winter months as many as 60-90 trumpeter and tundra swans find a haven on the National Elk Refuge because warm springs provide some ice-free open ...

Stephen Tyng Mather

July 4, 1867 - Jan. 22, 1930

He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved, unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to ...

Site of the Tres Pinos Hotel

1873-1958

The hotel served patrons

of the Southern Pacific

line that ended at the

Tres Pinos turntable.

Monterey Viejo Chapter

E Clampus Vitus

June 2, 1973

Marker is at the intersection of California Route 25 and Fifth Street, on the right when traveling north on State Route 25. ...

Pottery

“Today we made the beginning in the ground breaking for our new potter's house, which will be built toward the Monocacy, westward from the Gemein and Choir Houses, in such a way that a row of still needed shops can ...

Smith Complex

1750 - 1761

“...The houses of the congregation were well built, and there were all sorts of manufacturing establishments there...There were good carpenters, cabinet-makers, steel-workers, and very good blacksmiths...”

Baroness von Riedesel's Journal

September, 1799

The craftsmen who worked in metal held important jobs ...

Fault Scarp

Measuring the Rise of the Range

A fault scarp provides visual evidence of displacement of adjoining blocks of the earth's crust along a fault. near the base of Rockchuck Peak, the scarp shows nearly 60 feet of movement, mostly in the ...

The Cathedral Group

Viewed from this perspective, Teewinot Mountain, the Grand Teton, and Mount Owen comprise the Cathedral Group."These peaks have been called the Cathedral Group...more evident here than in many of the great cathedrals of men is the Gothic note. It is ...

Those People Stand No Chance

From this dominating position, Confederates of Major General Robert Hoke’s Division, easily repulsed part of the famous June 3 assault. For the South Carolinians holding this line, the battle ended before they knew a serious charge had been made.

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Camp Ford

On this site during the Civil War was located Camp Ford the largest prisoner of war compound for Union troops west of Mississippi river named in honor of Col. John S. "Rip" Ford who originally established a training camp here ...

The Grand Parade

A focal point of the sprawling “log cabin city” at Jockey Hollow was the Grand Parade. Each day, guard details assembled here for inspection, and General Orders from Washington’s headquarters were distributed. This was also the site of formal military ...