Huntington's Ford and First Bridge

Pioneers forded Little River From Charles Street diagonally across just below the Island to the Court House. A dugout canoe, when hailed, carried pedestrians across for 50 cents. Reportedly Indians had used this ford when traveling to The Forks. The ...

First Brigade

Third Division - First Corps

Army of the Potomac

First Corps Third Division

First Brigade

Col. Chapman Biddle

Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Rowley

80th. New York 121st. 142nd. 151st. Penna. Infantry

July 1 Arrived and went into position about 11.30 a.m. left of Reynold's Woods. The 151st ...

The First Oblong Friends Meeting House

The First Oblong Friends Meeting House was erected on this site in 1742. It was used as a place of worship until 1764. West of the site was the Friends burial ground.

During the fall and winter of 1778 ...

Stairs Hydroelectric Power Plant

The Stairs Project was built in 1894-96 as the first hydroelectric power plant to provide electricity to Salt Lake City. It was also one of the first plants in Utah to transmit power long distance, using alternating current rather than ...

Ang Tahanan ng Kaanak ni Rizal 1903 Daang San Fernando, Maynila

House of Rizal's Relatives

In Tagalog:

Si Teodora Alonzo, ina in Rizal, ay namatay noong ika-16 ng Agosto ng 1911 sa isang bahay na nakatayo sa pook na ito (ngayo'y blg, 476-478) at ari ni Gng. Luisa Lichauco.

Translated, the marker reads:

Teodora ...

Near this House of God

Nisi Dominus Frustra

Near this House of God

encamped General Washington

and his army

in 1778

In grateful tribute to the memory of the patriots who sleep in the adjacent church yard and to the men and women of this community who assisted so valiantly ...

Sixteenth Street Bridge

Historic Landmark

Sixteenth Street Bridge

H.G. Balcom, Engineer;

Warren & Wetmore, Architects

Marker is on Sixteenth Street 0.1 miles north of Smallman Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Crawfordville Confederate Memorial

1861-1865

Erected to the

memory of our

Confederate

Dead

Apr. 26, 1898

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street (U.S. 278) and Alexander Street on Broad Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Darr Mine Disaster

On Dec. 19, 1907, an explosion killed 239 men and boys, many Hungarian immigrants, in Darr coal mine near Van Meter. Some were from the closed Naomi mine, near Fayette City, which exploded on Dec. 1, killing 34. Over 3000 ...

The Lightning Route / Central Bank Building

The Lightning RouteIn 1886, Montgomery became the first city in the Western Hemisphere to convert an entire street railway system to electricity. The Capital City Street Railway Co. initiated electric trolley service on one mile of the street car line ...