J.P. Morgan Building (23 Wall Street)

Exploring Downtown

At the corner of Wall and Broad streets, the financial crossroads of the world, sits the House of Morgan. J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr., the capitalist’s capitalist – known throughout the world of finance, sought out by presidents and potentates ...

McCook Post No. 51 G.A.R. Civil War Memorial

This memorial in memory of

Union soldiers who fell in battle

was dedicated on May 31, 1909, and

maintained by McCook Post No. 51, G.A.R.

In 1998 the statue was refurbished and

a new pedestal was erected. On June 2, 2001

this Monument was rededicated by ...

Price's Tavern

Preston County was formed in the east upstairs bedroom of Price's Tavern in April, 1818, and named for James Patton Preston, governor of Virginia, 1816-1819. Tavern built prior to 1810, served as an inn until 1882.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Taylor County Rural Electric Cooperative

In 1936, a group of farmers in the Crowell area investigated the possibility of bringing electric service to the community. In 1937, they formed Taylor County Rural Electric Cooperative with a loan from the Rural Electrification Administration to serve 175 ...

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 ...

90th Pennsylvania Volunteers

2nd Brigade, 2nd Division

(Around the middle step):90th P.V.

Second Brig.

2nd Division

First Corps

(Front):This Regiment recruited in Phila.

responded to the first call April

6, 1861. Served until Aug. 9, as the

9th P.V. Reorganized Oct 1, 1861, ...

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 ...

Parker County, C.S.A.

Part of a colonial grant to S.M. Williams and Stephen F. Austin, father of Texas, but with no permanent settlers before 1850, this county was created in 1855 and named for Isaac Parker, its legislative sponsor. By 1860 it had ...

Sparta

Sparta, Seat of Justice for Hancock County in 1795, became a chartered town, Dec. 3, 1803. Situated at an Indian trading post, in constant danger of border trouble, the town was named Sparta to indicate the bravery of its pioneer ...

Champaign County Civil War Memorial

To the memory of those brave men of Champaign Co who died in the War to Save the Union, 1861-5.

Dedicated Dec. 7. 1871

Marker is at the intersection of Scioto Street (U.S. 36) and Main Street (U.S. 68), in the median ...