Tanforan Assembly Center Commemorative Garden

This garden memorializes a time when this site, then the Tanforan Park Racetrack, was transformed into a temporary assembly center for persons of Japanese ancestry. On February 19, 1942, in the absence of charges or due process of law, President ...

Braddock Street Methodist Church

"To Serve the Present Age" - Charles Wesley

From Court House to Church

Thirty-two charter members met July 24, 1858, in the Frederick County Court House and were organized as a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Virginia Conference.

The first church ...

Brink of Lower Falls

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River

Sculpting Lower Falls

Reaching the Brink of Lower Falls overlook requires hiking a steep trail that winds down the canyon wall…a wall of hardened rhyolite lava…a wall exposed by the Yel1owstone River while excavating the canyon.

Below ...

First Battle of Winchester

Here Stonewall Jackson, in the early morning of May 25, 1862, halted his advance guard and observed the union position.

Marker is on Valley Avenue (U.S. 11).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Great Buffalo Lick

This site is described in the treaty signed by the Creek and Cherokee Indians at Augusta, Georgia, in 1773. Here began the survey of the ceded lands.

Marker is at the intersection of Union Point Highway (U.S. 278) and Buffalo Lick ...

Brink of Upper Falls

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

From the Brink of Upper Falls viewpoint you can witness the power of the Yellowstone River as you watch millions of gallons (liters) of water plunging 109 feet (33 ...

Hotel Bayview

This establishment sits on a portion of the Mexican Grant Rancho de Aptos conveyed to Rafael Castro by Jose Figueroa in 1833. The hotel was built in 1870 by Jose Arano, a french basque who had married Castro's youngest daughter ...

Tower Bridge

West Sacramento River Walk

Sacramento’s graceful Tower Bridge has spanned the river since 1936. It is the only historically significant vertical-lift bridge in California and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Lights added in 1986 in ...

The Badlands Wall

The Badlands Wall constantly retreats north as it erodes and washes into the White River Valley below. The Wall, an intricately carved cliff, divides the upper from the lower prairie.The wall is more than sixty miles long. It is the ...

Broadway Hotel

The Broadway Hotel is one of the dozen hotels built in downtown Salt Lake City shortly after the completion of the city's two major rail depots. The building is most notable today for the portico on its southeast corner. This ...