Original Federal Boundary Stone SW 3

Original Federal

Boundary Stone Southwest 3

District of Columbia

Placed 1791-1792

This plaque placed here on the 200th anniversary of the founding of the City of Washington D.C.

Placed here and protected by Colonel John Washington Chapter

NSDAR

Washington D.C.

Grinninger Fence

First known use of barbed wire in Texas (1857), by John Grinninger, immigrant from Europe, worker in an early Austin iron foundry. Grinninger, who lived on Waller Creek (NE of here) grew fruit, vegetables and flowers. To protect garden, he ...

Vore Buffalo Jump

Plains Indians depended upon buffalo for many of their material needs - food, shelter, clothing, tools, fuel, ceremonial objects, even toys. Prior to acquiring horses in the 18th century, hunting individual animals on foot with bows and arrows was difficult ...

First Battle Site

1812

The first War of 1812 battle on Ohio soil was fought here when about 60 exhausted citizen soldiers were ambushed by about 130 Indians on September 29. Twenty men held the Indians at bay in a cabin while the main ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Life Along the Line

Just getting groceries up here could be a challenge

Deep winter snow sometimes made getting to school, going to the doctor, or buying food an adventure.

Families living at the top of the Bitterroot Mountains, here at East Portal and Roland, made ...

The Defenses of Washington

At the start of the Civil War, Washington was protected by only one fort, Fort Washington guarding the Potomac River approach. The capital city was uncomfortably close to Confederate forces operating in Northern Virginia.

by 1864, a system of earthen fortifications ...

Gilfillan House

This residence was constructed in 1905 for William L. Gilfillan (d.1932), one of the founders and directors of the Austin National Bank. Designed by the prominent Austin architect Charles H. Page, Jr., the two-story brick home reflects a mixture of ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Substation 13

Once a critical part of the longest electrified railroad in the world, the broken concrete foundation to your left is all that remains of the two-story, brick East Portal Substation.

Essentially a gigantic electric vault, East Portal was the largest of ...

French Camp

Here was the terminus of the Oregon-California Trail used by the French-Canadian trappers employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company from about 1832 to 1845. Michel La Framboise, among others, met fur trappers here annually where they camped with their families. ...

German Free School

German Free School Education was a primary concern for the new German immigrants who arrived in Texas in the 1840s and 1850s. Although Texas did not have a system of free public education at that time, it did offer subsidies ...