Mission San Francisco Solano

On July 4, 1823, Padre Jose Altimira founded this northernmost of California’s Franciscan Missions. The only one established under independent Mexico. In 1834 secularization orders were carried out by military Commandant Mariano G. Vallejo. San Francisco Solano became a parish ...

Kern County Chamber of Commerce

The Kern County Chamber of Commerce building was completed in 1928, Chester Avenue was part of State Highway 99, the main north-south route through California.

Architect Charles H. Biggar designed this Spanish-style building on land adjacent to the Kern County ...

Jeff. Smith’s Parlor

The building before you is an historical structure known as “Jeff. Smith’s Parlor.” It has recently been acquired by Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, a unit of the National Park Service. Jeff. Smith’s Parlor, a part of the extensive ...

Anderson Memorial Fountain

Presented to the West Point Cemetery

in the name of

James Marsland Lawton

son-in-law of

General Robert Anderson

God gives us love. Some thing to love He lends us, but when love is grown to ripeness, that on which it throve falls off, and love ...

I.O.O.F. Temple

Side A:

Lebanon Lodge No. 15 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was dedicated to the “purposes of benevolence and charity” and became one of the most prominent I.O.O.F. lodges in Ohio. The original building was a two-story structure erected ...

Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge

Ardennes

Dedicated

to the men and women

of the United States Army

who participated in

the Battle of the Bulge

during World War II

in Belgium and Luxembourg

the greatest land battle

fought by the United States Army

under extreme ...

Battery B, First Pennsylvania Artilery

Battery B

First Pennsylvania Artillery

P.R.V.C.

Commanded by Capt. James H. Cooper

4-3 inch rifled guns

July 1, 1863 the Battery arrived here about noon and engaged Confederate artillery on Herr's Ridge. About 1:30 p.m. moved to the rear. Changed front, engaged Carter's Artillery and ...

American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy

1819-1994

This tablet marks the site of the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy. Founded by Captain Alden Partridge in 1819 and incorporated as the Norwich University by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont in 1834. Following a disastrous ...

Utah's First Fort

?On this ten acre square during the years 1847-1849 stood the first fort, historic Mormon bastion, sometimes called the "Plymouth Rock of the West." Homes were erected of logs or adobe, side by side, with the rear walls forming a ...

The First Japanese Cherry Trees

The first Japanese Cherry Trees, presented to the City of Washington as a gesture of friendship and good will by the City of Tokyo, were planted on this site, March 27, 1912.

Marker is on Independence Avenue east of West ...