Miss Marilyn Bell

This cairn commemorates the feat of Miss Marilyn Bell who landed in this bay 23rd August 1956 to become the first woman and first Canadian to swim Juan de Fuca Strait from Port Angeles, U.S.A. to Victoria, Canada

Marker can be ...

The Bell Tower

You are standing in Bastion Square. The Hudson’s Bay Company, whose legacy continues at the store on Government Street, established Fort Victoria here in 1843.

Acting on behalf of the British Columbia Government, the company sold the surrounding land to pioneers ...

150th Anniversary of Belleville

In commemoration of the

150th Anniversary of the

Township of Belleville, N.J.

* 1839 – 1989 *

Board of Commissioners

Michael P. Pizzi, Mayor

Joseph T. Fornarotto

Vincent J. Frantantoni

Joseph F. McGreevy

Angelo C. Risoli

Marker is on Washington Avenue (New Jersey Route 7) north of Belleville Avenue, on ...

Bellevue Apartments

1913 - 1914

Constructed by local builder Charles E. Marks, the Bellevue was the largest and most expensive apartment building erected during Madison's pre-World War I apartment house boom. Advertised as a place of "ease and comfort," the Bellevue featured such ...

Bellevue, Kentucky

Incorporated March 15, 1870, on part of original land grant to Gen. James Taylor, pioneer, for whose farm this city was named. A general in War of 1812, banker, and statesman, whose farm was an underground railroad station.

President of ...

The Copperopolis Bell and Cannon

[Displayed at the Copperopolis Elementary School are a bell and a cannon along with their accompanying markers:]

The Bell

This bell cast in 1860, the first school in Copperopolis in 1862. The bell yoke shows repair, break probably from school fire of ...

Jackson Fire Bell

This trusty bell served Jackson

faithfully for over 70 years.

Located in tower near courthouse.

Warning of fire or other peril.

Dedicated July 8, 1989 by

Amador County Historical Society

and

Excelsior Parlor No. 31 N.S.G.W.

Andrew A. Quaglia, Grand President

Marker is on Broadway Street, on the left ...

Bellfield Plantation

The Bellfield house site and graveyard are located some 300 yards to the east. This was the home of two early Virginia governors, Captain John West in 1632 and Edward Digges who bought the property from West in 1650. Here ...

William Barker Hubbell

1816 – 1894

In Memory of Forty-Niner

William Barker Hubbell

1816 – 1894

Who built his building for a

General Store circa 1867

Served as Justice of the Peace

1888 – 1892

Marker is on Main Street (Old Highway 49) near Fiefield Street, on the right when traveling ...

Hollow Church Bell

[ right plaque ]

This bell hung in the Hollow Church which was relocated during construction of the Compensating Reservoir. It was cast in Hartford, CT in 1834.

[ left plaque ]

Dedicated 1997

These boulders were provided by the generosity of the Metropolitan ...