The Franklin Mountains

Cabeza de Vaca Peak, elevation 7,152, is eight miles north from where you stand on the scenic point. History records that these rugged limestone mountains, from which stones were hewn and spring water was drawn to build El Paso, were ...

The Mayham Tower

Approximately at this place, May 28-31, 1781, a Mayham tower was erected by the American forces commanded by General Andrew Pickens and Lt. Colonel "Light Horse Harry" Lee, who was besieging Fort Cornwallis, located on the present site of Saint ...

El Paso Lower Valley Missions/ Cordova Island/ The City and Coun

El Paso Lower Valley Missions

Ysleta Mission -- 1681. Ysleta, the oldest community in Texas, claims the most steadily cultivated plot of land in the U.S.

Socorro Mission -- 1682. Regarded as the oldest active parish church in the U.S. Has a ...

The Noblesville Commercial Historic District

The Noblesville Commercial

Historic District

has been placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

by the united States

Department of the Interior

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The District is roughly bounded by:

Clinton Street to the North

10th Street to the ...

The Midnight Riders

Minute Man National Historical Park, Mass

In September of 1774, Patriot leaders initiated a system of alarms and express riders to warn all towns whenever British troops marched out of Boston.

On April 18th, at about 10:00 in the evening, two riders ...

Dear General, We have met the enemy and they are ours

Dear General, We have met the enemy and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.

British Naval cannon captured by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's fleet during the Battle of Lake Erie at Put In Bay, ...

Bethel A.M.E. Church

(Front text)

This church, founded in 1866, was one of the first separate African-American congregations established in Columbia after the Civil War. It met in buildings on Wayne St., at Lincoln & Hampton Sts., and at Sumter & Hampton Sts. ...

This Tablet Marks the Final Resting Place of the Shakers of the

This tablet marks the final resting place of the Shakers of the North Union Society. Their remains were moved from the Shaker burial ground on South Park Boulevard to this cemetery in 1909.

"Do all your work as though you had ...

I Never Saw Anything Like Them Before

Looking over this parapet, you can still see some 1,400 feet of earthwork walls stretching out before you. In 1863 Fortress Rosecrans had more than 14,000 feet of walls surrounding a compound that covered 200 acres.

Lunette Thomas

This earthwork defense, the ...

Army of the West

In 1845 General Kearney's

Army of the West

Guided by Kit Carson

followed the Gila River from

New Mexico to the occupation

of California in the Mexican

War, thus opening the

southern snowfree route to

the Pacific Coast.

Marker is on U.S. 70 at milepost 347, on the left ...