Camp Bowie in World War I

Headquarters, 36th Division, United States Army, 1917-1919. Established to train Texas National Guard and Oklahoma National Guard, after the U.S. entered World War I, April 1917. Named for James Bowie (1795-1836), one of the commanders who died at the Alamo ...

Carter G. Woodson Birthplace

Carter Godwin Woodson was born about three miles east on 19 December 1875. As a youth he mined coal near Huntington, W. Va. He earned degrees at Berea College (B.L., 1903), University of Chicago (B.A. and M.A., 1908), and Harvard ...

Grass Valley Hardware

Through the years of prospecting hydraulic and hardrock mining this hardware business, one of California’s, has served this community… in continuous operation at this site since

1854

Marker is on Mill Street south of West Main Street, on the right when traveling ...

Soldiers’ Huts

on original street of

Muhlenberg’s Brigade

Marker is on Outer Line Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Thomas Party

In 1866 William Thomas, his son Charles, and a driver named Schultz left southern Illinois bound for the Gallatin Valley, Montana. Travelling by covered wagon they joined a prairie schooner outfit at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, and started over the Bridger ...

The White Chapel District

The White Chapel District:

In the depression of 1893 there stood on opposite corners of Washington Street and Third Avenue, at the foot of “profanity hill,” what was referred to as the most financially solvent institution in Seattle: The ...

First Marine Division – FMF

Dedicated

To those men of the

First Marine Division – FMF

Who gave their lives

in the service of

their County

World War II, Korea, Vietnam

Southwest Asia

Marker can be reached from West McCabe Road.

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First Transcontinental Railroad

Western Base of the Sierra Nevada

On January 12, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln decreed that where the Central Pacific Railroad crossed Arden Creek the western base of the Sierra Nevada began. The hardships of railroad construction through mountains resulted in increased ...

Arvonia

The name Arvonia was derived from Caernarvon, Wales, home to the Welsh quarrymen who settled the area in the mid-19th century. Arvonia is known for the long-lasting and unfading blue-black Buckingham slate that adorns many of Virginia's historic buildings including ...

Bouton's Battery

Battery I, First Illinois Light Artillery

U.S.

Army of the Tennessee.

Bouton's Battery,

"I" First Illinois Light Artillery,

--Unassigned--

This battery, with five guns, was in action here about noon April 7, 1862.

Marker is on Corinth Road 0.1 miles east of Sherman Road, on the right ...