The Hanging Rock Iron Region / The Blast Furnaces of Lawrence Co

The Hanging Rock Iron Region

To furnish the needs of the early settlers, then to furnish ordnance for a nation at war, and finally to furnish merchant iron to the steel mills, 100 iron producing blast furnaces were built within these ...

The Real Likeness of David Crockett

Even his contemporaries, close friends and relatives outside the artist’s circle, were not always consistent in describing the famous frontiersman. However, almost all agree that he carried an impressive frame, stood erect, and was quite muscular. We also know that ...

A Summary of the Life of Davy Crockett

• Raised in frontier poverty without any education until he is a teenager, David is often hired out to others for additional income while still a child; once held against his will until he escapes under the cover of ...

Red Rocks Amphitheatre

City and County of Denver Landmark

Principle construction by Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1848, SP-13C, Mt. Morrison, CO.

1936 - 1941

Dedicated as a memorial to all who served at Mt. Morrison and to the 3 million who served in the CCC nation-wide, ...

"Beware The Savage Rocks"

Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold

Cape Neddick Light Station

43° 9' 45" N. Lat.

70° 35' 30" W. Long.

Constructed 1879 • Automated 1987

The booming of a bell like this warned mariners of the "savage rocks" surrounding this tip of Cape Neddick. It hung from a ...

Galisteo Basin / Southern Rockies

Galisteo Basin. The extensive lowland south of here is called Galisteo basin, a sag in the earth’s crust where rock layers are depressed and thickened. It is one of the northernmost basins in the Basin and Range province in New ...

View of the Rockies

This is a two sided marker

Side A:

Reaching altitudes more than 13,000 feet, well watered, and forested, the Rocky Mountains are host to numerous recreational activities including skiing, fishing, hunting, and camping. To the north can be seen numerous volcanic peaks ...

Point of Rocks / The Dorsey Mansion

This is a two sided marker

Side A:

Point of Rocks

Point of Rocks was a major landmark along the Santa Fe Trail. Located in Jicarilla Apache country, it was near here that the party of Santa Fe merchant J.W. White was attacked ...

3. The Capture of the Redan and the Death of Brock

On the river banks below here, the Americans were trapped. To the right the Americans scaled the river cliff and seized the Heights above. To the left the British held the Village of Queenston. A British 18-pounder cannon situated here ...

Battleship Rock and the Jemez Mountains

Jutting out from the forest like a ship of war emerging from the fog, Battleship Rock is a unique stone feature representing millions of years of geological history.

The 200 foot tall welded volcanic ash wonder is named due to ...