Tarleton's Movements

Near this point

Tarleton, the British cavalryman, entered

the road from the south and moved westward

to clear the fords for Cornwallis's army,

May 14, 1781. Cornwallis was moving north

on Petersburg.

Marker is on Southampton Blvd (U.S. 58) near Adams ...

Latrobe Elementary School

Established in 1865

Latrobe was founded in 1864, when James Miller gave the right-of-way through his property to the Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad. Latrobe school originated as a one room classroom, however in 1915 a fire raged through Latrobe and ...

Major General George H. Thomas

(Right):Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas

San Francisco, Cal.

March 28, 1870

(Left):Erected by his Comrades

of the Society of

The Army of the Cumberland

Marker is at the intersection of 14th Street NW and Massachusetts Avenue NW, on the right when traveling north on 14th Street ...

Early Railroad Signals

In the earliest days of railroading, train movements were controlled by flagmen, station agents, or other workers alongside the tracks, using flag or lantern signals to stop or start trains as needed.

The first practical mechanical wayside signals, developed in the ...

Railroad Rails

The first rails for horse-drawn tramways and gravity-powered railroads were simple wooden stringers. Later, wrought-iron straps on top of the wood stringers, and then cast iron rails, gave greater durability. The predecessor of the modern "T"-section rails first appeared on ...

Railroad Standard Time

Before 1883, clocks were set to local "sun time," where noon was the time when the sun was highest in the local sky. Use of sun time meant that each town's time was different; Chicago would be nearly 5 minutes ...

American Blockhouse – 1777

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“I have also provided timber for two Blockhouses.”

- Col. Anthony Wayne, February 4, 1777

In the summer and fall of 1776 American forces concentrated on fortifying the northern point of the rocky Mount Independence peninsula, ...

First British Columbia School

On this site Rev. R.J. Staines and wife opened the first British Columbia School in 1849. In the same building of Fort Victoria the first Legislative Assembly met August 12th 1856.

[Plaque below]

This plaque unveiled by Honorable Nancy Hodges, first woman ...

Spaulding Tower / Towers and Interlocking Plants

Spaulding Tower

For over 90 years, this classic Midwestern interlocking tower protected the junction of the Milwaukee Road and the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern at Spaulding, just east of Elgin, Illinois.

Originally built around 1890 when the EJ&E extended north toward Waukegan, ...

Chicago Railways Company Date Stone

ca. 1908

This date stone came from the Chicago Railways Company "West Shops" complex located in Chicago at Maple and Harding Ave. Streetcars were built there and the shops survive to this day serving the Chicago Transit Authority. This stone was ...