The Wolf River Crossing

Before reaching the Iowa, Sac and Fox Mission wagon trains crossed the Wolf River. Travelers often encountered members of local Indian nations. Native Americans thought that some payment should be made to them for the use of their land. Travelers ...

Crossing the River

With the growth of Boscobel as a shipping point for products from the region, a dependable crossing of the river became an economic necessity. The city was incorporated in 1864 so it could issue bonds for the construction of a ...

The Wilderness Road Crossing of the Clinch River

In 1775 Daniel Boone and a group of axmen, following a Native American trade route, blazed a trail from the Anderson Blockhouse to a site on the Kentucky River. This trail, later to become the Wilderness Road, traversed 200 miles ...

Union Army's Crossing of the Pamunkey River

On 26 May 1864, following the engagements along the North Anna River, Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan and two cavalry divisions to move southeastward to secure crossings on the Pamunkey River. The next ...

Horse Head Crossing on the Pecos River

Here crossed the undated Comanche Trail from Llano Estacado to Mexico. In 1850 John R. Bartlett while surveying the Mexican boundary found the crossing marked by skulls of horses; hence the name “Horse Head”. The Southern Overland Mail (Butterfield) route, ...

De Anza Crossing of the Santa Ana River

1775 and 1776

On January 1, 1776, the first party of colonists to come overland to the Pacific Coast crossed the Santa Ana River south of this marker and camped between here and the river. Recruited in the presidios of Sonora, ...

Historic Crossing on the Sabine River

1607 1776

Site of

Historic Crossing on the

Sabine River

Erected by

Sabine River Chapter

Texas Society of the

National Society Daughters

of the American Colonists

Mrs. Roy E. Massengill,

Chapter Regent

Mrs. Walter M. Burress,

Organizing Chapter Regent

Mrs. Leroy L. Garigus,

National Chairman, Historic

Landmarks and Memorials

Mrs. Cari Walker McMurray,

National President

Spring 1970

Marker ...