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 Bohn Building

John Augustus Bohn

Architect and driving force behind the modernization of Highway 780, the first State Capitol Building, the Benicia State Park, First Street Development, the Benicia City Water System, and the Benicia Industrial Park.

He gave his vision, his determination, and ...

15-inch Rodman Smoothbore

Among the largest cannon used in the Civil War

Monumental in size, these two immense guns remain as sentinels ready to repel an attack on the Nation's capital. With their extended range and commanding location above the river, they were the ...

Gibraltar Monument

Erected

by

Jay Cooke

patriotic financier

of the Civil War

to mark the

corner stone of a

proposed monument

commemorating

Commodore Perry's

victory at the

Battle of Lake Erie

Sept 10 1813

"We have met the enemy

and they are ours"

Courtesy hmdb.org

APA das Pontas de Copacabana e Arpoador

Environmental Protection Area of Copacabana and Arpoador Promontories

[The text on the right of the marker is in English]:

The Environmental Protection Area (APA) of Copacabana and Arpoador Promontories was created by Municipal Law No. 2.087/94 to protect its rocky coast and ...

Allen Temple AME Church Bell

This bell was transferred from the

old to the rebuilt church in 1929.

Present Mounting: Sept. 1983

Donors: W.W. Henderson, Sr., Wilton Wells, Sr., Wilfred Walker, Sr.

Pastor: W.J. Jefferson, Jr.

Elder: C. Jackson

Bishop: F.M. Reid, Jr.

Marker is at the intersection of Green Avenue and ...

Howell's Georgia Battery

Maj. Robert Martin's Artillery Battalion

Howell's Georgia Battery

Two 6-pdr., Two 12-pdr. Howitzers.

Maj. Robert Martin's Artillery Battalion

Walker's (Gist's) Div., Hardee's Corps.

Capt. Evan P. Howell, Commanding.

1st Lieut. W.G. Robson.

2d Lieuts. T.J. Gilmore and R.T. Gibson.

Nov. 25th, 1863, 11 A.M.

A section of 6-pdr. guns ...

Stockton Assembly Center

Here, within the confines of San Joaquin County Fairgrounds, enclosed by barbed wire and housed in temporary barracks, 4,217 San Joaquin County residents of Japanese ancestry, predominately American citizens, were interned from May 10 to October 17, 1942 under Executive ...

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 ...