Fountain County Centennial Memorial

In Honor of our Heroes Who Have Defended us in All Wars

1826 - - 1926

Fountain County Centennial Memorial

Erected by The Richard Henry Lee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution in Memory of The Pioneers and Illustrious Dead of Fountain ...

A Flour Milling Revolution

In the 1870s and 1880s, important changes took place inside several small flour mills in southeastern Minnesota. Those changes laid the groundwork for a technological revolution that made Minnesota's milling industry the largest in the world.

The changes grew out ...

Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots of Woodbridge

1776 1927

In memory of the Revolutionary soldiers and patriots of Woodbridge, New Jersey

Placed by

Janet Gage Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

Marker is on Rahway Avenue near Trinity Lane, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort Lowell

Largest of the early Arizona military installations

this was the supply base for military posts in southern Arizona during the long warfare against the Apaches. Built in 1873, it was Gen. Nelson A. Miles' headquarter in the final campaign against Geronimo, ...

Colonels Twiggs and Few

In Honor Of The Men Under Command

Of Colonel Twiggs And Colonel Few

Who Victoriously Defended The

Cause Of The American Revolution

At The Battle Of Burke Jail

In 1779

Erected by the Georgia Society and the Edmund Burke Chapter Daughters Of The American Revolution ...

Tricky Affairs

The porcupine’s perfect defense

The porcupine defends itself with between 15,000 and 30,000 needle-sharp quills. Each quill has barbs that flair out from the shaft that resist being pulled out, but also work themselves in. When challenged, the porcupine simply puts ...

Chapel of San Pedro at Fort Lowell

A tiny chapel, built here in 1915, served the Barriada del Rillito, a community now called El Fuerte. The fifteen immigrant Mexican families of this village gathered outside under mesquite trees to hear Mass. In 1917, Senora Josefa de Mule ...

The Battle of Palo Alto

The Battle of Palo Alto

was fought here

May 8, 1846

and was won by

the

Army of the United States

Marker is at the intersection of Farm to Market Rd (County Route 511) and Arroyo Blvd/Paredes Line Rd (County Route 1847), on the ...

“I must save the women of Richmond!”

Site of the house in which Maj. Gen'l. J.E.B. Stuart, C.S.A. died May 12, 1864

“I must save the women of Richmond!”

This tablet is placed by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, A.D. 1911

Marker is at the intersection of West Grace Street ...

The College of Idaho

Planned by the Presbyterians of southern Idaho in 1884 and opened with 19 students in 1891, this is Idaho's oldest college.

William Judson Boone, the founder, remained president 45 years. From a modest beginning with a faculty of 8 (including two ...