Doctor's Office

Until modern medicine, contagious diseases afflicted both young and old and many died at a young age.

In 1875, there were fifteen physicians in Kern County, which had a widely scattered population of approximately 2,700 people. These fifteen doctors and the ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Water Does the Work!

A powerful man-made jet of water blasted the mountainside…

…washing soil and loose rock downslope to fill in the trestle.

By 1911, the Milwaukee Road filled twenty-two temporary wooden trestles between St. Regis, Montana and Avery, Idaho. On this side of the ...

Route of the Hiawatha- Man’s Mark on the Land

If you stood on this spot with a railroad surveyor in 1906, you would have gazed across a lush patchwork forest of large trees. The super hot 1910 fires burned the valley below and for years afterward the area presented ...

Forrest's Murfreesboro Raid

July 10, 1862

Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest's brigade, having left Chattanooga July 9, bivouacked here enroute to his capture of Murfreesboro. The Brigade then consisted of the 8th Texas Cavalry (Wharton), 2nd Georgis Cavalry (Lawton), and Woodard's Kentucky Cavalry Battalion. The ...

Forrest's Murfreesboro Raid

July 10, 1862

Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest's brigade passed here enroute to its junction with additional units, to be followed by a further advance on the Federal garrison and stores at Murfreesboro. Leaving Chattanooga on July 9, the brigade here consisted ...

Tampa's First Paved Sidewalk

1888

Archibald Ross. A native of Scotland. A member of the City Council. "Tampa's popular baker and the poor man's friend." Paved the walk around his brick building on the southeast corner of Franklin and La Fayette Streets with Georgia marble.

"The ...

Deputy Marcus L. Whitfield

Jan 6, 1979 - Aug 13, 1999

An officer's sworn to protect and serve,

Answering each call with unwavering nerve,

Never knowing when life will throw out a curve.

A policeman's life was what I chose,

To follow a noble, honorable code,

And it cost me ...

Mary Noailles Murfree

1850-1922

Described as "Tennessee's foremost woman writer of fiction." she used the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock for over thirty years. The Tennesee mountains and the Civil War were used as the settings for her novels and short stories, and she ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- A Changing Landscape

“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” Benjamin Disraeli

At the beginning of the 20th century, majestic western white pine, western larch and western red cedar, some over 400 years old, along with Douglas-fir and grand fir carpeted the Bitterroots.

As the railroad ...

Firefighters Memorial

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for another.”

John 15:13

This memorial is dedicated to honor all Stockton firefighters that gave their lives in the line of duty.

Marker can be reached from North Center ...