Southern Pacific R.R. Depot

First located here April 28, 1876 by Central Pacific R.R. First passenger train passed through on September 25, 1877 with Leland Stanford aboard.

Historic Marker No. VI

Martinez Historical Society

July 4, 1991

Marker is on Ferry Street near Marina Vista, on the right ...

Portage County Civil War Memorial

1861–1865

Portage County

to

her heroes who fought

and

her martyrs who fell

that

the Republic might live.

Marker is on Church Street south of Arlington Place, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Pony Express Ferry "Carquinez"

Dedicated April 23, 2005

Martinez

By James Stretestky · Julian M. Frazer · Martinez Historical Society · Mayor Rob & Carole Schroder · Supervisor Gayle B. Uilkema · Vice Mayor Mark & Dianne Ross · Tesoro's Golden Eagle Refinery · Bart, Jane, ...

The Underground Railroad in Lincoln's Neighborhood

The Underground Railroad refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage. Acts of self-emancipation made runaways "fugitives" according to the laws of the time. While most began and completed their journeys unassisted, each ...

Eleventh Street School

The Eleventh Street School, built in 1907, was one of the earliest elementary schools in Gadsden. It is the only local surviving school building of that era.

This two-story red brick structure has solid masonry exterior walls and an entrance which ...

Site of the Wall of New Amsterdam

Landmarks of New York

In 1653 the City of New Amsterdam erected a wall along the northern edge of town to protect the inhabitants from attack. This wall, five to six feet high, was constructed of heavy planks laid horizontally, ...

Henson Robinson House

During the 1860's, this was the residence of Henson Robinson, a partner in a Springfield business concern that sold stoves, furnaces, and tinware. Robinson's company had a contract to manufacture tin cups and plates for soldiers during the Civil War.

Marker ...

Railroad Brakes / Westinghouse Automatic Air Brakes

Railroad Brakes

Early railroad cars had hand-operated brakes. A lever (and later a brake wheel) near the top of each car applied the brakes only on that individual car. The engineer directed brakemen to apply or release brakes by whistle signals; ...

Couplers

The earliest cars were joined together with chains or iron bars. Later cars used many different types of couplers, including the "link and pin." A foot-long iron oval, or link, fit into horizontal slots on the ends of adjacent cars, ...

Solomon Allen Barn

Allen, a gunsmith, owned and lived in a house on this property during the 1850's and '60's.

His barn is the only outbuilding from the Lincoln period that still exists in the Historic Site. Many of Lincoln's neighbors kept livestock in ...