Industry Shapes the Valley

The presence of industry changed the physical appearance and social composition of the Cuyahoga Valley. In the early years of the 20th century, both the Cleveland Akron Bag Company and the Jaite Paper Mill built new structures that impacted the ...

Home of Juan Bautista Alvarado

State Registered Landmark No. 348

Native of Monterey, Governor of California under Mexican rule December 20,1836 - December 20,1842. During his administration the increasing influx of Americans, and the Russian settlement at Fort Ross, began to be regarded as serious problems. ...

Portola Journey's End

November 6 -10, 1769

Near "El Palo Alto" the tall tree, the Portola Expedition of 63 men and 200 horses and mules camped. They had traveled from San Diego in search of Monterey but discovered instead the Bay of San Francisco. ...

Building Out the Square

Civil War to Civil Rights

(Front):

The great depression (1929-1941) meant economic catastrophe for millions of Americans, but in Washington it meant a building boom as the Federal Government staffed up to the end the economic crisis. In 1931 alone ...

The Old Clock

Dedicated to Roy W. Simmons and I. J. "Izzy" Wagner

February 2,2007

Friends and business partners, Roy Simmons and I. J. "Izzy" Wagner spent more than half a century building businesses - including Zions Bank - and improving their communities. The time ...

Washington Aqueduct

Washington Aqueduct

has been designated a

National Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America

1974

National Park Service

United States Department of the Interior

Marker can be reached from MacArthur Blvd/Great Falls Road Climb east of the ...

Samuele Sebastiani Vineyard and Winery

Here is 1825 the Franciscan Fathers of San Francisco Solano Mission planted the first vineyard in Sonoma Valley. The grapes were used for making sacramental wines. After secularization of the Mission in 1835, General Mariano G. Vallejo, Commander of Alta ...

Bergen County Court House / Bergen County Old Jail

[Bergen County Court House Side]:

James Riely Gordon (1863–1937), noted architect of public buildings used the Beaux Arts style to reflect the power and dignity of American institutions of government and justice. Ground was broken November 29, 1909 and the cornerstone ...

Under Two Flags

The Waterways

Both the Confederacy and the Union recognized the strategic importance of the Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal…and both sides fought for control.

The Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal (A&C) provided the Confederacy the means to avoid the coastal blockade ordered by President ...

The Diamond Mine Disaster

The Diamond Mine of the Wilmington Coal Mining and Manufacturing Company, located near Braidwood on the Grundy-Will County line, was the site of a major mine disaster in Illinois.

The mine was on a marshy tract of land that had ...