Beginning Point of the Louisiana Purchase Survey

This stone marks the base established Nov.10,1815

from which the lands of the Louisiana Purchase were surveyed by the United States Engineers. The first survey from this point was made to satisfy the claims of the soldiers of the war of ...

Grave of Sir William Johnson

Grave of Sir William Johnson

Baronet

1715 - MASON - 1774

His Indian name

Warraghiyagey

"he who does much business"

Founder of

Johnstown

St. John's Episcopal Church

St. Patrick's Lodge 4 F.&A.M.

First Free School

Supt. of Indian Affairs

Major General British Army

Colonel of the Six Nations

Builder of an Empire

Marker can be ...

Franklin

"Cradle of the Santa Fe Trail"

This Trail

One of the Great Highways of the World

Stretched nearly one thousand miles from

Franklin, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico

"From Civilization to Sundown"

[Relief Caption]

Captain William Becknell of Franklin

"Father of the Santa Fe Trail"

With four companions, ...

Catalina Federal Honor Camp

Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site

Why Put A Prison On A Mountain?

Honor Camp prisoners built the Mt. Lemmon Highway

In the early 20th century, the only road to Mt. Lemmon began at the town of Oracle and snaked up the north face of ...

Factory Shoals c. 1820

This area represents one of Georgia’s earliest experiences in advanced water-powered industrialization technologically unsurpassed in the U.S.

Archaeological remains of 5 mills ranging from large textile factories to small grist mills exist within a one mile section of the river. ...

Battery F, 5th U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Battery F, 5th U.S. Artillery.

Lieut. Leonard Martin, U.S.A., Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Early in the morning of the 17th, Battery F, 5th U.S. Artillery, generally known as Ayers' Battery, moved with Smith's Division, Sixth Army Corps, from its bivouac in Pleasant Valley ...

Graveyard Of The Richmond Covenanter Church Reformed Presbyteria

Here lie buried many of the Scotch Irish pioneers, who, in 1772, under the leadership of the Rev. William Martin, founded one of the first Covenanter churches in upper South Carolina.

Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 901 and ...

Birthplace of Darius M. Couch

Two miles east

Birthplace of

Darius M. Couch

Major General, U. S. A.

Commander 2d Corps, Army of

Potomac, at Fredericksburg

and Chancellorsville, 1862-63

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

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Massachusetts Sharpshooters

First

Massachusetts

Sharp Shooters

Unattached

July 2nd. 1863

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First New Jersey Brigade

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Infantry and Hexamer’s Battery

September 17, 1862

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The Brigade arrived upon this field from Crampton's Pass about noon, and was formed for a charge upon the Confederate line just north of the Dunkard Church. The order for ...