Otfrid Hans Freiherr von Meusebach

Born at Dillenburg, Nassau, Germany

May 26, 1812.

Commissioner-General of the Society for

the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas

who became a citizen of the Republic of Texas

under the name of John O. Meusebach.

Founder of Fredericksburg on May 8, 1846.

On March 1-2, 1847, ...

Birthplace of Gen. Wm. S. Rosecrans

Born Sept. 6, 1819

Died March 11, 1898

Marker is on Rosecrans Road (Local Highway 69) 0.4 miles east of County Road 33, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Braddock Cannon

(North Side):

This monument marks the trail taken by the army of General Braddock which left Alexandria on April 20, 1755 to defend the western frontier against the French and Indians.

Erected by the Society of Colonial Dames of America in the ...

Amelia Elizabeth White (1878-1972) / Mary Cabot Wheelwright (187

(side one)

Amelia Elizabeth White (1878-1972)

Amelia Elizabeth White worked tirelessly to promote Indian art and to preserve Santa Fe's heritage. A philanthropist and community activist, she donated land for the Laboratory of Anthropology and the Wheelwright Museum, gave the city its ...

Bonanza Mine

King of the Pocket Mines

Discovered 1851, by Chileans, they took out a substantial amount of free gold.

Early 1870's acquired by James Divoll, Charles Clark, and Joseph Bray, sinking a shaft 1500 ft. in 1877. Big strike came in 1879, 990 ...

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church, the oldest Black Baptist church in Maryland, was founded amidst turmoil in 1836, five years after Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia. Alarmed at the Rebellion, Maryland and other slave states passed laws restricting the movement of free ...

Battle of Dingle's Mill

(Front text)

Here on Apr. 9, 1865, the day of Gen. Lee's surrender, was fought one of the last battles of the War between the States. 158 Confederates rallied by Col. Geo. W. Lee stopped, for several hours, the advance ...

Maria Gertrudis Barceló

Doña Tules

(side one)

Maria Gertrudis Barceló or Doña Tules, a notorious gambler and courtesan, operated a gambling house and saloon on Burro Alley in Santa Fe. She traveled up El Camino Real from Sonora, Mexico in 1815. Bishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy allowed ...

Westside Flume & Lumber Company

1889 - 1962

May 31, 1889 Henry J. Crocker, Wellington Gregg, Thomas Bullock and Charles Gardner formed the Westside Flume and Lumber Company, for a total cost of 361,000.00 dollars. The mill was built, and by the end of the ...

1st New Jersey Brigade

(Front):First Brigade,

New Jersey Volunteers.

Brig. Gen. Alfred T.A. Torbert

1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. and 15th.

Regiments Infantry

1st. Brig. 1st. Div. 6th. Corps.

July 2, in reserve, July 3 and 4

detached from the Corps,

held this position.

Erected by the State of

New Jersey, A.D. 1888,

in testimony of ...