The Sandstone Building

It is difficult to establish an exact date of construction of this building. It is one of a half-dozen structures built in St. George from leftover rock from the tabernacle during the 1860's. George Brooks is thought to have built ...

Minnetonka -- Queen of the Inland Lakes

In May, 1822, a Fort Snelling drummer boy named Joseph R. Brown and his friend, William Snelling, son of the fort's commander, canoed up what is now called Minnehaha Creek to "discover" a lake long sacred to the Indian people ...

Portsmouth Foundry and Machine Works

c. 1863

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of 3rd Street and Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling west on 3rd Street.

Frank W. Barker, George J. Kennedy, Walter James, Earnest R. Tip

Members of the

Civilian Conservation Corps

Company 1212

Paradise Camp F-5

who gave their lives for the conservation

of Nevada's Natural Resources, while fighting fire

about three miles east

of this point on July 28, 1939.

Marker is on U.S. 95 0.6 miles north of Buffalo Hetrick ...

87th Inf Division

Activated at Camp McCain, Miss. in 1942, the "Golden Acorn" Division trained at this site in 1944. The division distinguished itself in the Ardennes, the Rhineland, and Central Europe during the Battle of the Bulge, the assault of the Sauer, ...

77th Inf Division

The "Statue of Liberty Division" was reviewed by England's Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt after it was reactivated here in 1942. The 77th fought in World War II Pacific campaigns of Guam, Leyte, Kerama Retto Islands, and Okinawa. ...

26th Inf Division

The "Yankee" Division, which saw extensive combat in World War I, was mobilized for active duty in World War II in January 1941. It trained here in 1942-43 and again in 1944, leaving 16 August 1944 for Europe. As part ...

8th Infantry Division

Activated in 1918 and inspected by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton during World War II, the 8th landed in France 28 days after D-Day (the invasion of Normandy) and participated in three other campaigns during ...

31st Inf Division

"It shall be done"

The "Dixie" Division, created in 1917, spent most of World War II as a training division, with some units training at Ft. Jackson, but later saw combat in the Philippines 1944-45. The postwar "Dixie" Division, composed of ...

30th Inf Division

(Front text)

After a brilliant combat record in World War I and 14 years of dedicated National Guard service, the "Old Hickory" Division was mobilized at Fort Jackson, S. C. on 16 September 1940. During World War II, the 30th Division ...