Flat Rock Baptist Church

[side A]

One of the oldest Baptist churches in Western North Carolina. It was constituted as Petty's Meeting House on June 10, 1783. The name was changed to Flat Rock Baptist Church in 1802. Under the leadership of William Petty, the ...

Associated Oil Fire – 1924

Historic Cannery Row

In 1904 the Coalinga Oil Transportation Company laid 168 miles of six-inch pipeline from the Belridge Field in San Joaquin Valley to the Tidewater-Associated Marine Terminal on Monterey Bay (top). Its purpose was to deliver heavy fuel oil ...

Monterey Breakwater

Historic Cannery Row

Recurring winter storms wreaked havoc on the Monterey fishing fleet every few years (top). On April 29, 1915, such a storm, with 60-mile-per-hour winds, destroyed or damaged nearly 50 boats. On Thanksgiving morning 1919, more than 93 vessels ...

Watrous

The Mountain Branch and the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail meet at Watrous. This important spot on the Trail was first known at La Junta, "junction" in Spanish. In 1879, with the coming of the railroad, it was ...

Fort Union National Monument

1851-1891

Once the largest post in the Southwest, Fort Union was established to control the Jicarilla Apaches and Utes, to protect the Santa Fe Trail, and to serve as a supply depot for other New Mexico forts. The arrival of the ...

Colorado Volunteers at the Battles of Glorieta Pass

March 26-28, 1862

On this site and several miles to the west along the Santa Fe Trail, Colorado Volunteers and Regular U.S. Troops fought a Confederate force from Texas in the Battle of Glorieta Pass. Although no clear victory emerged after ...

Glorieta Pass Battlefield

National Historic Landmark, 1961

The Civil War battle fought in this pass is often referred to as the "Gettysburg of the West." Union forces dashed Confederate strategy to seize the southwest's major supply base at Fort Union; Colorado and California were ...

Solomon Blatt Highway

Named In Honor

Of

"Mr. Speaker"

who has traveled this road

between Barnwell and Columbia

thousands of times

as

member, House of Representatives

since 1933

Speaker of the House

1937 — 47 1951 —73

A record unequalled in U.S.

Speaker ...

Spanning the Waters

Riverfrontiers

Before bridges, ferry boats did a brisk business transporting passengers and their goods from shore to shore. But sometimes even ferries couldn't get through the area's frozen rivers in winter time.

It was in 1815 that the first bridge spanned the ...

Bicentennial Celebration / La Bajada

This is a two sided marker

Side A:

Bicentennial Celebration

This facility was built by the New Mexico State Highway Department to commemorate the

bicentennial birthday of the United States. Located 15 miles south of the plaza in Santa Fe, the nation's oldest capital ...