Four Corners – A Common Bond

This is the only place in the United States marking the common corner of four states – Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.

Who established this corner?

The four corners monument was established and perpetuated by U.S. Government Surveyors and Astronomers beginning ...

New Hampshire - Berdan's Sharpshooters

2d Brigade, 1st Division

New Hampshire.

Cos. E, 1st Reg, F & G, 2nd Reg.

Berdan's U.S. Sharpshooters.

2d Brig, 1st Div, 3d Corps.

July 3, 1863.

Marker is at the intersection of Hancock Avenue and Pleasonton Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Hancock ...

The Friends School at Birmingham Meeting House

Was established at this place about 1753. It was for many years under the care of John Forsythe, the First Head Master of Westtown Boarding School opened in 1799. Dr. William Darlington was a pupil at Birmingham.

Marker is on ...

The Cold Harbor Killing Fields

The heaviest fighting on June 3 occurred at three separate spots outside the present boundary of the national park. You are looking northward toward one of those places. Two brigades of infantry from the Eighteenth Corps charged from right to ...

The Peace Garden at Birmingham

During the Battle of the Brandywine on September 11, 1777, the American Army used the walls of this Quaker Burial Ground in their first line of defense. Both armies used this meetinghouse of Quaker pacifists as a hospital. Behind the ...

Pueblo of Laguna

Keresan speaking refugees from Santo Domingo, Acoma, Cochiti, and other pueblos founded Laguna after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Spanish reconquest of 1692. Named by the Spaniards for a marshy lake to the west, the pueblo still occupies ...

Bayard Rustin

(1910 -1987)

Born here, the civil rights leader and pacifist organized the 1963 March on Washington. Head of A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1966-1979. Elected to Henderson High School Hall of Fame.

Marker is on Maple Avenue near Lincoln Avenue, on ...

Columbine High School

On April 20, 1999, in a senseless act of violence, twelve students and one teacher were killed, and many others injured at Columbine High School. It was a tragic event that shook the Columbine and metro Denver communities, horrified and ...

Friends Burial Ground

In 1804, Miami Monthly Meeing purchased this land to use as a graveyard. Burials were made without regard to status or family association, but rather by date of death. Some of the earliest graves are marked with a plain rock ...

Gettysburg Campaign

On June 28, 1863, part of General Jubal Early's Confederate Division neared York by this route. Here Early sent Colonel French to York Haven to burn bridges. Ordered to rejoin Lee's army, most of Early's men returned over this road ...