Solomon's Lodge No. 1 F.& A.M.

Organized Feb. 21, 1734

Oldest Continuously

Operating English

Constituted Lodge in

The Western Hemisphere

[Masonic Emblem]

Building dedicated for

Masonic purposes

Sept. 13, 1975

Grand Lodge, F. & A.M., Georgia

Harris Bullock, Grand Master

Marker is on East River ...

19th Indiana Infantry

August 28, 1862

7:00 p.m.

4th Brigade (Gibbon), First Division (King)

Third Corps (McDowell), Army of Virginia, USA

19th Indiana Infantry

Col. Solomon Meredith

"The enemy was secreted under cover of a fence and did not make their appearance until we had approached to within 75 ...

Levi Ruggles Founder of Florence

Civil War veteran Levi Ruggles came to Arizona Territory in 1866 as a U.S. Indian Agent. Recognizing the agricultural potential of this valley, he found an easily fordable crossing on the Gila River and surveyed a townsite here. He called ...

Battle of McDowell

Confederates Hold the High Ground

Beyond the ridge you are facing is Sitlington’s Hill. On the afternoon of May 8, 1862, Gen. Edward “Allegheny” Johnson directed two brigades of Confederate infantry to take position on the hill facing the Federals across ...

Carlton Foster Bond

1893 - 1980

CO Pearson Field

1929 - 1933 & 1938 - 1940

Honoring Aviation Pioneers

Marker is on E. 5th Street, on the right when traveling east.

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E.N. Fish & Co. Store

Edward Nye Fish, prominent Tucson merchant, and his partner/manager Joseph Collingwood, first Florence postmaster, opened Florence's first store in this building in 1868.

Building additions from 1867 to 1888 formed a U-shaped complex, and portions of these buildings are the ...

Bank of Osceola

Built in 1909, the Bank of Osceola shared this building with various enterprises over the years, including a cotton brokerage firm and small movie theater. While much of the original architecture remains intact, four circular stone profiles of Seminole Chief ...

First Japanese on the North American Continent

In October 1832, the Japanese cargo ship Hojun Maru set sail from near Nagoya bound for Edo (present day Tokyo). Disabled in a storm off Enshu Nada, the Hojun Maru drifted for fourteen months before running aground on the coast ...

East Hale Storefronts

The potential for commerce related to cotton payrolls attracted a robust cadre of Jewish merchants to Hale Avenue in the early 1900s. Harwarg's opened in "Old Town" before moving to "New Town," followed by Beehive's, Nickol's, and Weinberg's. Silverfield's (1915) ...

Four Holes Swamp Bridge / Harley's Tavern

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Four Holes Swamp Bridge

The first bridge across Four Holes Swamp, a branch of the Edisto River, was built between 1770 and 1780 and was located about 200 ft. N. of the present bridge. The old bridge, on ...