Groundwater Irrigation Beginnings

[Marker Front:]

Groundwater Irrigation Beginnings

The San Joaquin Valley's groundwater reservoir was first tapped with a practical pumping plant 4 miles northeast of here on Dec. 12, 1894. William De La Grange of Selma, tired of upstream irrigationists draining Kings River water ...

The Congressional Medal of Honor - Apache Campaign 1872 - 1873

The following named individuals were assigned, either permanently or temporarily, to Camp Verde, Arizona Territory. While stationed here their personal action in combat was above and beyond the call of duty, earning them the nation's highest award.

The Congressional Medal of ...

Mendenhall's Battery

Batteries H & M, 4th United States Artillery - Crittenden's Division

U.S.

Army of the Ohio.

Mendenhall's Batteries,

"H" & "M" 4th United States Artillery,

Crittenden's (5th) Division

These batteries, with four guns, were engaged here

from about noon to 2 p.m. April 7, 1862.

Marker is on ...

Coyote Lake – Harvey Bear Ranch County Park

In the 1830s, most of what is now the park was located on the Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas granted to Carlos Castro. The reservoir is found on early public lands and also on the lesser Rancho La Polka ...

Welker's Battery

Battery H, 1tst Missouri Lt. Art., W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

Welker's Battery,

"H" 1st MO.Lt.Art., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery, of two 10 pdr. and two 20 pdr. Parrotts occupied this position April 6, 1862 from 9 a.m. to 3 ...

Peoples Federal Savings and Loan Association Building

Erected 1917

One of the last works of Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924), the American architect whose original ideas of functional design and decorative ornament provided a basis for modern American architecture.

Marker is at the intersection of Court Street (Ohio Route 29/47) ...

House of Rev Peter Bulkeley

Here in the house of the

Reverend Peter Bulkeley

first minister and one of the

founders of this town

a bargain was made with the

Squaw Sachem, the Sacamore Tahattawan

and other Indians

who then sold their right in

the six miles square called Concord

to the English planters

and ...

The Red River Campaign

March 1864

"I trust some future historian will treat this matter as it deserves to be treated, because it is a subject in which the whole country should feel an interest..."Rear Admiral David D. Porter May 16, 1864

Assembling the Troops

In March ...

The Shelby County Courthouse

In 1819, the State of Ohio formally recognized Shelby County, named for Isaac Shelby, veteran of the American Revolution and former governor of Kentucky. The first county seat was located in Hardin, but was moved to Sidney in 1820 to ...

Irvin Hall

This structure has been

recorded by the

Historic American

Buildings Survey

of the United States Department

of the Interior for its archives

at the Library of Congress

Marker is on Main Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org