Elizabethtown

The discovery of gold on Baldy Mountain in 1866 brought such a rush of fortune-seekers to the Moreno Valley that “E-town” became a roaring mining camp almost overnight. Because of water and transportation problems, and a decline in ore quality, ...

Republican Blues

During the early months of the Civil War,

Fort Jackson's Garrison was composed

of local militia units which served rotating

tours of duty at the fort. One of these

units was the Republican Blues commanded

by John Wayne Anderson.

The Blues were first organized ...

Hornbine School

This one room school built in the 1840's and used by the town of Rehoboth until 1937. An extension of 14 feet at the rear was made in the 1920's. During Rehoboth's 325 anniversary in 1968 the school was restored ...

The San Andreas Fault Exhibit & El Camino Real Earthquake Walk

In Celebration of the

U.S.Geological Survey's Centennial

1879 - 1979

Dedicated July 4, 1979

by

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

In Cooperation With

Old Mission San Juan Bautista-Diocese of Monterey,

U.S.Geological Survey-Department of the Interior,

California State Historical Park-San ...

Blanco County Trail Drives

From this headquarters site in the 1870s, the brothers J. T. and Sam Ealy Johnson started thousands of cattle up trails to Kansas and other shipping or market points. To the west, at Williamson's Creek, and at Deer Creek (southeast) ...

Dr. June Robertson McCarroll

Dr. June Robertson McCarroll was born June 30, 1867 in the Adirondacks and began her medical career in Chicago. She left a promising practice for Indio in 1904. Becoming the sole practicing physician for the entire Coachella Valley. She traveled ...

Lieutenant Colonel George B. Damon

The Breakthrough

Lieutenant Colonel George B. Damon

10th Vermont Infantry, 1st Brigade,

3rd Division (Seymour), Sixth Corps

Resident: Newbury, Vermont

Enlisted: August 1862

Colonel Damon’s regiment, the 10th Vermont Infantry, struck the Confederate trenches about 300 yards southwest of this position (to your left) during the ...

Boone Trail Highway Memorial

Near his site, and with the sponsorship of Wytheville

civic organizations, J. Hampton Rich, Director of the

Boone 'Fran Highway & Memorial Association,

erected the original monument in 1928. It was one of

many placed across the nation to memorialize the

trail-blazing, frontier statesman, and ...

Ang Simbahan ng Nuestra Señora de Guia

Church of Ermita

In Tagalog:

Itinayo noong 1606 na yari sa kawayan, mulawen, at pawid, ang simbahan ng Nuestra Señora de Guia ay makailang nawasak dahil sa lindol. Muling itinayo noong 1810 at nawasak noong 1945 sa labanan ng Maynila, ang ...

Billy Eckstine

(1914-1993)

African American jazz balladeer and bandleader whose innovative style and sponsorship of new talent helped revolutionize jazz in the 1940s. One of the nation's most popular vocalists, he had 11 gold records. He grew up in this house.

Marker is on ...