USS Colorado BB-45

Dedicated

to the men who served

aboard the U.S.S. Colorado (BB-45)

March 1921-June 1959.

Tarawa • Kwajalein • Eniwetok • Saipan-Guam • Tinian • Leyte • Mindoro • Luzon • Okinawa • Japan.

Dedicated March 21, 1997

Marker can be reached from ...

John S. Barbour’s Birthplace

Just to the south stood Catalpa, where John Strode Barbour was born on 29 Dec. 1820. In 1849, he was appointed the state’s representative on the board of directors of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. The board elected him president ...

Baptistown

Settled by Baptists in the 1720s. One of the area's older towns astride the Old Kings Highway (now Rte. 519), it offered a tavern, stores, and various artisans.

Marker is on County Route 519, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

Sergeantsville First Brethren Church

Founded in 1898. Building constructed the same year.

Its Gothic Revival style is unique in Hunterdon County.

Marker is on Rosemont - Ringoes Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Jim Bridger

Trapper 1844

He little knew that when he cut his name, or had it cut, in this stone, that it would be engraved in the annals of the West deeper than that of any other man. As one of the world's ...

Union Lee Baptist Church

According to oral tradition, this congregation began meeting together for outdoor worship services in 1874. In 1884, Leonard Eck donated land, the B.J. Lee family gave a building, and the church was formally organized with the Rev. Anthony Winn as ...

Ruhama Baptist Church

Constituted in 1819 by pioneer settlers in Territory of Alabama.

Oldest Church in Birmingham Baptist Association.

Elder Hosea Holcombe served as first pastor.

First meeting house was log cabin.

Present building is on fourth site.

Marker is on 2nd Avenue South, on the right ...

Sandy Ridge Baptist Church

First church built in 1818. This building erected 1866. Early ministers served in Flemington on Sunday,

here on weekdays.

Marker is at the intersection of Sandy Ridge Road and Sandy Ridge - Mount Airy Road, on the right when traveling west ...

Shelby's Last Stand

On Oct. 23, 1864, Confederate Gen. Shelby being forced back from Westport by Gen. Curtis and flanked on the east by Gen. Pleasonton formed a defensive line here behind stone fences running east and west to the state line. Jackman's ...

Site of Second Travis County Courthouse & Walton Building

Built in 1875 in term of County Judge James W. Smith. Former state officials on committees for site and building included Governor E.M. Pease, Secretary of State C.S. West, Attorney General N.G. Shelley, Treasurer James H. Raymond and Legislator George ...