Agua Caliente Ranch and Hot Springs

Agua Caliente Ranch

In 1873, Peter B. Bain filed the first formal claim to the land surrounding Agua Caliente Spring. Bain and a partner, Marion T. Beckwith, began a dairy cattle operation by bringing cows north from Sonora. Bain built a ...

Birthplace of Darius M. Couch

Two miles east

Birthplace of

Darius M. Couch

Major General, U. S. A.

Commander 2d Corps, Army of

Potomac, at Fredericksburg

and Chancellorsville, 1862-63

Marker is on Sodom Road, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Donn Vickers Gazebo in Thurber Park

Donn Vickers served as the executive director of the Thurber House from 1985 through 2001. As executive director, Donn was responsible for many accomplishments including the development of Thurber Park and the construction of this gazebo.

In recognition of Donn's commitment ...

Smith's Division, Sixth Army Corps

U.S.A.

Smith's Division, Sixth Army Corps,

Maj. Gen. William F. Smith, Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Smith's Division left camp between Crampton's Pass and Rohrersville, in Pleasant Valley, at 5:30 a.m., of the 17th, crossed the Antietam at Pry's Ford and arrived at the front ...

Direct Hit

About 2:00 p.m. on September 13, 1814, gunners of the Maryland Militia under Captain J.H. Nicholson were waiting out the British bombardment behind this parapet. It was futile to return fire because their 21 pounder gun did not have the ...

Cistern and Well

Fort McHenry was surrounded by water, but none of it was fit to drink. In the early years, soldiers rowed into Baltimore to fill casks with fresh well water. They also collected rainwater from the barracks' roofs in a cistern ...

Robert Lee Doughton

Robert Lee Doughton, for whom Doughton Park is named, was born in Alleghany County, North Carolina, November 7, 1863. An original and leading advocate of the establishment and development of the Blue Ridge Parkway, he was a member of the ...

First New Jersey Brigade

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Infantry and Hexamer’s Battery

September 17, 1862

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The Brigade arrived upon this field from Crampton's Pass about noon, and was formed for a charge upon the Confederate line just north of the Dunkard Church. The order for ...

Meyersdale Centennial

1874 - 1974

Meyersdale

Originally founded by

three land warrants to:

1784 John Olinger

1785 Andrew Borntrager

1785 John Burger

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1803 Meyers Mills “Moyer’s Stadt”

1844 First town lots were laid out

1870 Chartered as Dale City Borough

1874 Charter amended to Meyersdale

Marker is at the intersection of Center Street ...

This is one of some 230 markers erected on the Boston Post Road

Their locations were fixed by Benjamin Franklin the Deputy Postmaster General who for that purpose drove a chaise with a distance recorder over the route. Restored to this its original position June 1st, 1927, by the Village of Rye.

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