Fountain Paint Pot

Making Mud

This vat of bubbling mud contains the perfect mix of ingredients to create mudpots: heat, gases, rock, minerals, acid, and even living microorganisms!

Heat-loving “thermophiles” consume some of the gases and help convert them into sulfuric acid. The acid breaks ...

11th Pennsylvania Reserves

40th Pennsylvania Infantry

(Front):11th. Pennsylvania Reserves

40th. Infantry

3d. Brigade 3d. Division 5th. Corps

Mustered in May 9 - July 5. 1861

Mustered out June 13 1864

Recruited in Cambria, Indiana, Butler, Fayette

Armstrong, Westmoreland, and Jefferson Counties.

Present at Gettysburg 25 officers and 367 men.

Killed 1 officer ...

Toppahanock Indian Village

In this region near the Rappahannock River once stood the Rappahannock Indian village of Toppahanock. When John Smith explored this region in 1607 and 1608, he found fourteen Rappahannock villages along both banks of the river. The river was the ...

Wilderness Campaign

May 6, 1864, Hancock's Federal soldiers opened the second day of battle about 5 a.m. Hill's Confederates were driven westward to this vicinity, the small clearing of the Widow Tapp Farm where Lee had his headquarters. As Col. William T. ...

2nd Position of 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers

Corn Exchange Regt.

July 2nd 1863.

1st Brig. 1st Div. 5th Corps

Marker is on Wheatfield Road, on the left when traveling east.

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Participation of the Artillery

November 24, 1863

Tablet #1

Union Batteries

7th Indiana (Sec)

Lt. Otho H. Morgan

Baird

Mouth Chatta. Creek

10th Indiana

Capt. Wm. A. Naylor

Sheridan

Moccasin Point

1st Iowa

Lt. James M. Williams

Osterhaus

W. of Lookout Creek

2d Missouri

Capt. Clemens Landgraeber

Osterhaus

W. of Lookout Creek

I, 1st New York

Capt. Michael Wiedrich

11th Corps

W. of Lookout Creek

K, 1st ...

Fountain Paint Pot

Making Mud

This vat of bubbling mud contains the perfect mix of ingredients to create mudpots: heat, gases, rock, minerals, acid, and even living microorganisms!

Heat-loving “thermophiles” consume some of the gases and help convert them into sulfuric acid. The acid breaks ...

Portobacco Indians

Along the Rappahannock River near here lived the Portobacco Indians, who may have been part of the Portobaccos of Maryland. After moving to Virginia in the 1650's, they lived here in peace with their Indian neighbors, who spoke a similar ...

Pioneer Mother Monument

People Of Kansas City

By

Howard Vanderslice

To Commemorate

The Pioneer Mother

Who With Unfaltering Trust

In God Suffered The Hardship

Of The Unknown West

To Prepare For Us A Homeland

Of Peace And Plenty

Alexander Phimister Proctor – Sculptor ...

Spanish-American War/China Relief Expedition Monument

To Commemorate

The

Valor and Patriotism

In The

War With Spain

Philippine Insurrection

And

China Relief Expedition

1898-1902

Marker is on Wyandotte Street, on the right when traveling south.

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