Riverton Tithing Yard Hill

In 1886, the Riverton Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased choice land for a tithing yard from Samuel L. Howard Sr., located between 12400 and 12600 South, one mile northeast of this park. Members brought ...

The State of Maryland

[Front/East Side of Marker]:

The State of Maryland

In honored recognition of the historic valor

of her sons who in Blue and Gray, nobly

sustained the martial glory of their

fathers in the military operations around

Chattanooga in the war for the union.

1861 - 1865

The proud ...

South Jordan Settlement

In 1859, George A. Smith sold his Mexican Land Grant to Alexander Beckstead, who, with others, settled ½ mile to the south. They dug a five mile ditch from Jordan River, in operation since completed in 1863. Adobe Community House ...

Doubleday's Division, First Army Corps

U.S.A.

Doubleday's Division, First Army Corps,

Brigadier Gen. Abner Doubleday, Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)Doubleday's Division, on the right of the First Corps, moved to the attack at 5/30 a.m., September 17, in the following order: Gibbon's Brigade in advance, supported ...

The Burning of Mouzon's Home by his "Friend"

Capt. Wm. Henry Mouzon II had a friendship with Banastre Tarleton from their boyhood school days in France. Yet the British Tarleton burned the Mouzon Plantation House, on August 7, 1780. Ann Mouzon, age eleven, was the first to see ...

Living Classrooms Foundation

Lady Maryland

The Lady Maryland is an authentic replica of a pungy schooner, a Chesapeake Bay workboat that sailed the Bay in the 1700s and 1800s. Pungies were fast sailing vessels and were primarily used to transport perishable cargo such as ...

Gun Carriage and Turning Shop (1842 - 1849)

Arsenal Park

This area is where most woodworking operations took place. It was also known as the carpenter's shop. Wagon and gun carriage wheels, as well as other wooden parts, were made here.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Missouri Pacific Wooden Frame Depot

This wooden frame depot is typical of most small town stations of this era. The depot and water tower was [sic] originally built in the 1880s and was located about ¼ mile south. The depot was torn down and moved ...

The Sheridan Libraries

Honoring R. Champlin and Debbie Sheridan

Encompassing the Milton S. Eisenhower Library

and its collections at the

John Work Garrett Library

Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room

George Peabody Library

1994

Marker can be reached from N. Charles Street.

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Forging and Casting [and] Smith's Shops (1839 - 1842)

Arsenal Park

The lighter brick in this pad outlines the foundations of two shops, the smiths and the forging and casting. These shops were built simultaneously between 1839 and 1842. During Confederate occupation, these shops, along with the engine house, were ...