Devils Lake Vista Subcontinental Divide

Devils Lake, seen here, is a glacial pot-hole on top of a sub-continental divide, waters on its northeast side flow north via the Ontonagon River to Lake Superior and thence east to the Atlantic, while waters on its south side ...

467th Bombardment Group (H)

Sept. 1943 - June 1945

Dedicated 8 October 1983

to the memory of our comrades who died

in training and in 212 combat missions

flown in B-24 Liberator bombers from

Station 145, Rackheath, Norfolk, England

from 10 April 1944 to 25 April 1945,

and to all assigned ...

Northwest Bastion

The plan of Fort Ward consisted of five bastions with positions for 36 guns. The Northwest Bastion illustrates how the entire stronghold appeared in 1864. This bastion is armed with six reproduction weapons based on Fort Ward's original table of ...

Commercial Bank Building

ca. 1905

Commercial Bank, the town's second

occupied the northern portion of the

building until merging with First

National Bank. The Wanteska Trust &

Banking Company operated here from

1909 to 1919. Other tenanta have been

La Vouge Hat Shop, Patterson's Women's

Wear and in the southern ...

452nd Bombardment Group

Dedicated to the members of the

452nd Bombardment Group

Activated 1 June 1943

Deactivated 27 August 1945

728th Sqdn • 729th Sqdn

730th Sqdn • 731st Sqdn

Base of Operations

Deopham Green, England

250 combat missions flown in B-17s

1 unit citation

2 Medal of Honor winners

Dedicated 25 June 1983

Courtesy ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- The Big Blowup

The forest fires of August, 1910, burned millions of acres in Idaho, Montana and Washington. On the night of August 20, engineer Johnnie Mackedon, returning from a trip to St. Paul Pass, found the Falcon siding on fire. Over one ...

Battle of Marion

Here, on December 17-18, 1864, General Stoneman, raiding to Saltville, fought an engagement with John C. Breckinridge, Confederate commander in southwest Virginia.

Marker is on North Main Street (U.S. 11), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hotel Provident and Heierman Building

Built in 1887, apparently as a hotel, for Tom Smith. Contractor was Austin Mayor Joseph Nalle. The “Hotel Provident” operated under various names until the 1920s. In conjunction with the hotel, the lower floor housed numerous businesses, including a newspaper, ...

Kern Valley Bank

The Kern Valley Bank, established on February 24, 1874, was the first bank incorporated in Kern County.

Established soon after the economic depression known as the Panic of 1873, the Kern Valley Bank managed to weather the nationwide economic turmoil and ...

The Prime Minister’s Cabin

Prime Minister Ramsey McDonald of England was a frequent guest of President Hoover. The “Press” of that day popularly envisioned these two peace loving leaders sitting on a log in the Camp Hoover area scrapping the navies of the world. ...