Flood Control

West Sacramento River Walk

On January 15, 1850, the fledging City of Sacramento, consisting mostly of tents and simple wooden buildings, stood in 6 feet of water. Two weeks later, the community pledged $200,000 to levee construction. But before the levee ...

92d Illinois Infantry

92d Infantry

Co. F detached at Gen. Cruft's Headquarters, Nov. 24, 1863.

Marker can be reached from Shingle Road 0.2 miles north of Military Road.

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Cruft's Division

Granger's Corps

Cruft's Division, Granger's Corps

Brig. Gen. Charles Cruft.

Nov. 24, 1863

2nd Brigade, Brig. Gen. Walter C. Whitaker.

3rd Brigade, Col. William Grose.

At daylight November 24th Whitaker's Brigade joined Geary's Division at Wauhatchie crossed Lookout Creek with it and joined in the assault ...

The Grand Canyon Of The Yellowstone

The canyon varies from 800 to 1200 feet in depth and from 1500 to 4000 feet in width. Its length is about 24 miles. The upper 2½ miles is the most colorful section. Hot spring activity has continued through the ...

66th New York Infantry

3rd Brigade, 1st Division

66th New York

Infantry;

3rd Brigade,

1st Division,

2nd Corps.

July 2, 1863.

6 p.m.

Casualties:

5 killed,

29 wounded.

10 missing.

Marker is on Sickles Avenue, on the right when traveling west.

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Field Hospital of the 32nd Massachusetts Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

Behind this group of rocks, on the afternoon of July 2nd, 1863, Surgeon Z. Boylston Adams placed the Field Hospital of the 32nd Massachusetts Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 1st Div., 5th Army Corps. Established so near the line ...

Ritchford Hotel

1404 Highway 395

Opened in 1896 by Mr. and Mrs. William Ritchford, the three-story hotel was a stage stop. A water tower was also built on the site, however it no longer stands.

The Ritchford was the most luxurious hotel in town ...

Waterfall Makers

Here the Yellowstone River plunges 308 feet over the Lower Falls. Hot springs have weakened the rock jut downstream, where you might see several geysers spouting into the river. As falling water pounds the thermally softened rock, it continues to ...

Soldiers of the American Revolution

- 1776 –

(Front of Monument):

In commemoration of the Soldiers of the American Revolution - 1776 – Erected by the State of New Jersey under the auspices of the Fort Lee Revolutionary Monument Association - 1908 –

(Left of Monument):

“Rebelmen”

These ...

Home of Sarah Hillhouse

This Federal style house was begun in 1814, by Sarah Porter Hillhouse who came to Washington in 1786, from Connecticut with her husband David. In 1801, David purchased the town’s first newspaper The Monitor, and when he died in 1803, ...