Stumpy’s Hollow

July 2, 1861

Site of JEB Stuart’s capture

of Union Soldiers

Falling Waters

Battlefield Association

Marker is at the intersection of Hammonds Mill Road (West Virginia Route 901) and St. Andrews Drive (County Route 3/1), on the right when traveling west on Hammonds Mill Road. ...

Billopp House

Landmarks of New York

Built by and for Christopher Billopp about 1680, this house was long a center of colonial hospitality. It is known also as “Conference House” because Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge met here with Lord Howe ...

Swante Palm

(January 31, 1815 - June 22, 1899)

A native of Basthult, Barkeryd Parish, in the province of Smaland, Sweden, Swante Palm was a leader of early Swedish immigration to Texas. Influenced by his nephew, Swen Magnus Swenson, Palm came to Texas ...

Building Human Happiness

"We are definitely in an era of building; the best kind of building - the building of great public projects for the benefit of the public and with the definite objective of building human happiness."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Growing out of the ...

Pellegrini Home and Fish Company

103

Berrellesa

Old Town Martinez

Home of Historic Interest

Pellegrini Home

and Fish Company

Luigi Pellegrini was a successful

turn of the century fish buyer.

This building opens to Alhambra

Creek for easy fish unloading and

contains the only 100 year old fish

...

Openheimer-Montgomery Building

This structure was built in 1894 for Texas military, business, and civic leader Louis Openheimer (1858-1906). Designed and constructed by John McDonald, a prominent citizen who served as Austin’s Mayor from 1889 to 1895, the building was sold in 1899 ...

Ute Pass

Passage from prairie to high plains

If you had been standing on this spot for the last 10,000 years, you would have seen the history of Colorado progress below you. This ancient route through the Rocky Mountains is named for Colorado’s ...

Peter Henry Oberwetter

A native of Germany, Peter Henry Oberwetter migrated to Texas about 1849 and settled first in New Braunfels, then Comfort. He later moved to Austin, where he gained distinction as a botanist. He pioneered in crossbreeding the Amaryllis, imported rare ...

Site of the Birth Place of Rev. Anthony Foucher

The first American Priest

of the West.

July 22, 1741 —— June 12, 1812

Marker is on South River Road west of County Route 300 W, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lewis and Clark Campsite

July 30 - August 2, 1804

On July 30 the explorers arrived at the bluff where Fort Atkinson would be built less than two decades later. Clark wrote, "The Situation of this place which we Call Council Bluff which is handsom ...