Big Spring Park

Asa Prior, born in Virginia about 1785, pioneered into this valley and purchased a large tract of land including this spring and Cedar Creek in 1834. In 1852 he deeded the spring and 10 adjacent acres to the City of ...

Kearney Civil War and Spanish-American War Memorial

Erected by the City of Kearney, 1910. In honor of the Defenders of our Country, 1861-1865 and 1898-1900.

Marker is at the intersection of Central Avenue and East 25th Street (U.S. 30), on the left when traveling south on Central Avenue. ...

Salem Church/Haw’s Shop

The Union Army Consolidates

After crossing the Pamunkey River, Grant ordered his army to consolidate near this intersection.

While the cavalry fought a ferocious battle west of here at Enon Church on May 28, 1864, Grant’s infantry reconnoitered north toward Hanover Court ...

Capt. & Mrs. Chauncey Johnson

Here sleep Capt. and Mrs. Chauncey Johnson.

Capt. Johnson was born in Burlington, Vermont May 1, 1798. Served in the War of 1812. Came to Texas in 1840. Captured by General Adrian Woll at San Antonio, September 11, 1842 and ...

Philquist-Wood House

Sweden native Sven Axel Philquist, local district clerk and later clerk of the Texas Supreme Court, hired Swedish builder F. Oscar Blomquist to build this family home in 1912. Following several subsequent owners, grocer Sam Wood purchased the house in ...

High Point Veterans Memorial

This memorial is dedicated to the memory and honor of those who have served bravely in our Armed Forces in both times of war and in times of peace.

May 30, 2005

World War I • World War II • Korean War ...

First Banking Institution in Ophir

This tablet commemorates

the establishment

of the

First Banking Institution

in

Ophir

now

Oroville

which was located on this site

and occupied by

McWilliams & Tymeson -

G.A. Emery - Geo. Faulkner & Co. 1855-1865

Rideout Smith & Co. 1866-1912

Rideout Smith National Bank 1912-1922

Bank of Italy 1922-1927

and since March, 1927

by the

Bank ...

148th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 1st Division

148th Regiment

Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade. 1st Division. 2nd Corps

Occupied this position July 3 1863

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Joseph E. Johnson and the Huntsman’s Echo

In April 1860 Joseph E. Johnson, a Mormon, established a road ranche at Wood River Center, today’s Shelton, and began publishing The Huntsman’s Echo, the first newspaper in Nebraska west of Omaha. He had earlier edited papers in Council Bluffs, ...

Wilderness Campaign

May 5, 1864. Since Longstreet's Corps was still on the way from encampment near Gordonsville, Lee began this battle with only two of his three corps. Keeping Ewell on the defensive in the Orange Turnpike sector, he pushed A.P. Hill's ...