National Historic Landmark - Fort Yellowstone

Fort Yellowstone was built by the army to administer and protect the natural resources of Yellowstone, America's first national park. The army remained in the park from 1888 to 1918, longer than in any other park. At Yellowstone, the soldiers ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Phil Kearny

Established in 1866 to protect travelers along the Bozeman Trail, the fort was under virtual siege (1866-68) in the "Red Cloud War" as Sioux groups fought successfully to prevent White invasion of their hunting grounds. This was one of the ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort D. A. Russell

Established in 1867 to protect workers for the Union Pacific Railroad, this fort was home of the Pawnee scout battalion in 1871. Troops from the fort participated in the Sioux War of 1876.

Photo: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, ...

National Historic Landmark - Expedition Island

This was the embarkation point of Major John Wesley Powell's 1871 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and possibly for his 1869 trip as well. On these trips, Major Powell explored the last large land area unknown to European-Americans ...

St. Michael School

Catholic Driving Tour

Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee

In 1877, at the request of Bishop Quinlan of Mobile, seven Sisters of Mercy set sail from New Orleans, Louisiana, for Pensacola, Florida, where they were to prepare for opening a new Catholic school. Later that ...

St. Ann Catholic Church, Gulf Breeze

Gulf Breeze began as a small fishing town in the 1900s without a Catholic Church. Several decades later, Monsignor Cusick , priest of Pensacola at the time, discussed establishing a parish in Gulf Breeze so that Catholic families would not ...

St. John the Evangelist Church and School

"Catholic Driving Tour"

Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee

In 1850 the Secretary of the Navy authorized the construction of a Catholic church on the Navy Yard to provide for the spiritual needs of workers and their families. St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church was ...

St. Sylvester Catholic Parish

The Parish of Saint Sylvester was formed in 1979 to fill the spiritual needs of the increasing population of Gulf Breeze and Navarre.

Parishioners first celebrated in a local country club and also at the parish rectory. A year later, ...

St.Anthony of Padua Catholic Church

Founded in 1941, St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church was originally a mission of the Franciscan Order from the St. Louis Province of the Sacred Heart.

Two years after it was built, a fire destroyed much of the interior of ...

St. Thomas More

"Catholic Driving Tour"

Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee

St. Thomas More Catholic Church began as a small, four-room building in 1954.

Construction of a new church began in 1955 and by Christmas of the following year, the parish celebrated its first Mass in the ...