Bear Paw National Historic Battlefield

After staying ahead of the military for five months and 1,170 miles, months in which they had crossed mountains, suffered hardship, and lost many friends and relatives, approximately 700 Nez Perce made a final camp on Snake Creek, south of ...

404 South Palafox, "The Bear Block"

This building represents American history, the Industrial Revolution, the advent of the railroad, and Pensacola’s variegated past. Lewis Bear, a Jewish immigrant from Bavaria, delivered groceries, and supplies to Pensacola’s bustling wharves using a two-wheeled cart.  As business flourished, Bear ...

Bearpaw Meadow

In his anti-backcountry-roads campaign Colonel White prevented a full third of Sequoia Park's later formal wilderness from being lost. Yet, he was not opposed to appropriate, low-level development, even in the backcountry. We have already documented his trail-building efforts, ...

Bear Lake

Many fires swept through what is now the national park between 1850 and the early 1900's. A walk around Bear Lake passes through forests that regenerated after large fires at the turn of the century. In 1956, Climber Patrick ...

Bear Country (Critter Country), Disneyland, CA

The Country Bear Jamboree and Playhouse was initially located in a section of Disneyland called Bear Country. A short walk through a covered bridge sent guests to an indoor queue area themed with dressing room doors of the performers. Featuring ...

Traveling to Beardstown

Travel in Abraham Lincoln's time was time-consuming, dirty, and usually downright uncomfortable. On many of his trips, Lincoln traveled by train to Meredosia. From there he had the choice of a steamboat or a bone-jarring ride in a carriage over ...

The Beardstown Women's Club

Erected this tablet

February 12, 1909

In memory of

Abraham Lincoln

who, for the sake of a mother in distress, cleared her son Duff Armstrong of the charge of murder in this hall of justice.

May 7 1858

Marker is on West 3rd Street just ...

Lincoln in Beardstown

Abraham Lincoln first saw Beardstown in the Spring of 1831 as he, two friends, and Denton Offutt steered Offutt's flatboat laden with merchandise on their way to New Orleans. He returned in 1832, first in March to help get the ...

Beard's Hat Shop

William Beard made & sold hats at his well-known shop, established before 1795 and later operated by his son David. Site 1 1/3 mi. N.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Penny Road, on the left when traveling ...

The Brown Bear

The Brown bear was originally cast in plaster by Eli Harvey. A fund raiser campaign to "put a hair on the bear" was led by Senator Theodore Francis Green Class of 1887, and resulted in the commission of a bronze ...