The Leaping Tuna

(The Thunnus Thynnus or Bluefin Tuna)

The sport of big game fishing originated in Avalon when Charles Frederick Holder caught a 183 pound Blue Fin Tuna with sport fish tackle on June 1, 1898. This angling milestone inspired him to ...

Hacienda Mining Display

Preserved here is equipment used in quicksilver mining. A few examples are from New Almaden, but most are from the Guadalupe Mine and were used in the last fifty years of mining, until the mines closed in the 1970s.

The equipment ...

Shaft Drill Core

1935-36

Experimental vertical shaft 5’ in diameter to 1125’ depth thru serpentine and gabbro at Idaho-Maryland Gold Mine, Grass Valley. Machinery invented by J.B. Newsom. Greatest drilled footage – 21’ in three days. Core weight 11-tons. Donated to Nevada City by ...

S.S. Palo Alto

Though hopelessly broken and firmly at rest, the cement ship Palo Alto has become an important legacy whose value has not decreased today. As the colorful chapters of her past resonate through her hull she is protected as a historic ...

Revolutionary War Veterans

Dedicated to

the men and women

of the Revolutionary War

who fought for

American Independence

Placed by

Emporia Chapter DAR

to celebrate NSDAR Centennial

1890-1990

Courtesy hmdb.org

Korean War Memorial

In memory and honor

of the men and women

dead and living

who served the United States

in the Korean War

Courtesy hmdb.org

Creating a National Park

[Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park]

“It is a refuge, a place of retreat, a long stretch of quiet and peace at the Capital …”William O. Douglas.

Look around you. The park you stand in exists because people cared. In January ...

George Darby House Cleburne’s H’dq’rs.

May 25, 1864. Maj. Gen P. R. Cleburne’s div. marched with Hardee’s A.C. [CS] from New Hope Church May 24th, to Power Springs.

These troops, the left flank of Johnson’s Army, marched S.E. to find the position of the Federals known ...

Galveston "News", C.S.A.

Founded 1842 by Samuel Bangs, Texas' first printer. Published after 1843 by Willard Richardson, who put up the first 4-story building in Galveston to house the offices and printing plant.

Soon after the Civil War began in 1861, cut back ...

The Italian Vault

Attracted by economic opportunities to be found here, a large number of Italian immigrants came to Galveston in the 19th century. In 1876, they formed the Italian Mutual Benevolent Society (Societa'Italiana di Mutuo Soccorso) to provide assistance to fellow immigrants. ...