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First Hospital

203 West Center

This house was built in 1890 for John R. and Bartha Blanchard. In 1903, this building was converted into the first hospital in the Cache Valley with a capacity of seven beds in four rooms. In 1916, it ...

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Huddy’s Leap

On September 1, 1780

Captain Joshua Huddy

was captured at Colts Neck

by a band of Tories.

While being conveyed across

the river to what is now Sea Bright,

the boat was fired upon

by Colonial forces.

Although wounded,

Captain Huddy escaped

by jumping from the boat and

swimming to the ...

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Escape Via Maritime Underground Railroad

Now one of Edenton's most tranquil locations, during the antebellum period Edenton harbor was the town's industrial center with wharves, shipyards, and maritime activity.

North Carolina's small, ill-protected harbors prevented development of major ports and stunted growth of the state's plantation ...

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St. Johns Episcopal Church

Seat of the first Non-Mormon congregation in Cache Valley, 1873. Gothic church and vicarage consecrated 1909. Logan’s first public Library and the Common Room Club housed in the vicarage.

Marker is at the intersection of 100 North and 100 East, on ...

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Death of Pegram

Late afternoon, April 1, 1865. Confederate infantrymen waited behind rude, muddy earthworks lining the White Oak Road. Young Colonel William R.J. Pegram tended to his artillery: three guns in this field, three others farther to the west (your right). Then ...

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Big Pine Veterans Memorial

Marker 1:

The Big Pine Veterans Memorial was established by the Big Pine Civic Club in the year 2000 to honor all veterans of the Owens Valley. The 80-foot tall pole proudly displays the "Stars and Stripes" with the California State ...

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In Memory of Major Samuel Spotts U.S.A.

Who shot the first gun at the Battle of New Orleans Jan 8, 1815. Third Regiment Seventh Battery Artillery Corp. Born Nov 30, 1788 in New Orleans Louisiana.

Marker can be reached from Battlefield Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Big Four Depot

Lafayette, Indiana

1902 - Built at Second and South Streets by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad, nicknamed “Big Four” and the lake Erie & Western Railroad; served as a train depot until 1975

1979 - Reopened by City of ...

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Westgaard Pass Toll Road

Camp Independence soldiers needed a road to Waucoba-Deep Springs. In 1873 J. S. "Scott" Broder completed this road and collected tolls until 1900. In 1913 A. L. Westgaard led an American Automobile Assn. tour across here, seeking a new Transcontinental ...

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Old North Point Water Tower

The 1871 Wisconsin legislature authorized the City of Milwaukee to finance and build a public water system. By 1873 the Board of Water Commissioners had constructed the old North Point Pumping Station below the bluff with intake from Lake Michigan, ...

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