Upper Falls of the Yellowstone River

A waterfall is a clue that you are standing on a geologic crossroads.

A waterfall forms in a river channel where harder rocks meet softer rocks that erode more easily and quickly. Here, volcanic and hydrothermal activity have created the 109-foot ...

Ferry Site

At this site before 1748, a ferry was first owned and operated by Garrett Johnson.

It was used to transport the artillery from Pennsylvania to New Jersey the night Washington crossed the Delaware, December 25, 1776. At that time, it ...

Heard's Fort

(Early Georgia Capital)

Heard’s Fort was designated the Seat of Government for Georgia on February 3, 1780. The Executive Council met and transacted the affairs of the State in this temporary Capital until early 1781. This designation was made by the ...

In Memory of the Soldiers, Both Confederate and Union

In Memory of,

the soldiers, both Confederate

and Union, who died here

at the Exchange Hotel

used during the Civil War as the

General Receiving Hospital.

Gordonsville, VA

1861 –– 1865

Marker can be reached from South Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Coca-Cola Bottling Company In The United States

On July 21, 1899, two Chattanooga lawyers, Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead, signed a contract with the Coca-Cola Company granting them the exclusive rights to bottle Coca-Cola in most of the United States. Another Chattanooga citizen, John Thomas ...

Janney Furnace

The furnace was constructed by Montgomery businessman Alfred A. Janney, reportedly using slaves brought from Tennessee by a "Dr. Smith." The furnace was completed and ready to produce pig iron when, on July 14, 1864, a Union cavalry raiding force ...

First Court House

in Merced County

Erected 1857

This monument commemorates the

Seventy-fifth anniversary of

the organization of Merced County

and is dedicated to the memory

our pioneers

by

Yosemite Parlor No. 24, N.S.G.W. Merced

May 20, 1930

Marker is at the intersection ...

Anna Sewell Memorial Fountain

Inscribe around the globe topping this memorial are the words:Blessed are the merciful

Halfway up the column, on the street side, is inscribed:

In Memoriam

Anna Sewell

Author Of

“Black Beauty”

Marker is at the intersection of South Cliff ...

Skirmish of Albuquerque

April 8-9, 1862

While Confederate Brigadier General H. H. Sibley was assembling the bulk of his army at Santa Fe, Union Colonel E.R.S. Canby moved 1200 men from Fort Craig to occupy Albuquerque – "If it can be done without serious ...

A heritage of hearths

Morristown National Historical Park

Soldiers of the Pennsylvania Line built these hearths in the winter of 1779-1780.

The rest of the encampment vanished decades ago, victims of disuse and decay. These huts are copies, based partly on the ghosts of post holes ...