The Jones Adobe Home

Dedicated to memory of

Clarence Amos Jones & Madaline Empey Jones.

Donated by their children Boyd Grant Jones and Sylvia Jones Chamberlain,

Wayne Hyrum Jones

to the Washington County Historical Society.

This one room home, with a partition, was moved from 306 West 300 North ...

Utah-Idaho Sugar Company

Former site of the

The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company after determining that sugar beet seed was a good cash crop, bought these grounds and started production that would last for nearly fifty years.

Sugar beets were planted in the fall in the Bloomington ...

Protecting Consumers and Competition

Make No Little Plans

This is the Federal Trade Commission Building, home of the agency that defends the public against unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices. One of the older independent Federal agencies, the FTC ...

Peter M. Gideon

This Tablet Commemorates

Peter M. Gideon

Who Grew The Original

Wealthy Apple Tree

From seed, on this his homestead

— in 1868 —

Erected by

The Native Sons of Minnesota

— June 1912 —

Marker is at the intersection of Manitou Road (County Road 19) and Glen Road, on ...

Big Bend Tunnel

The great tunnel of the C & O Railroad was started at Big Bend in 1870 and completed three years later. It is more than a mile long, and now has a twin tunnel. Tradition makes this the scene of ...

"The Old Rugged Cross"

Most popular and widely accepted Christian hymn "The Old Rugged Cross" completed by Rev. George Bennard during Evangelistic meetings here Dec. 29, 1912 - Jan. 12, 1913

First sung as a quartet in the Friends Church Parlors and as a duet ...

Peter M. Gideon and the Wealthy Apple

In 1853, Peter Miller Gideon and his wife, Wealthy, arrived in Minnesota from Ohio and settled on the shores of Lake Minnetonka. Long interested in fruitgrowing, Peter Gideon determined to satisfy the craving of pioneer families for apples and other ...

The "Dark Arch"

Originally an open courtyard, Bastion A was roofed over, probably in the 1870's to accommodate new artillery-15-inch Rodman Guns. The new space was divided into an indoor drill hall, a powder magazine and a storage area for wagons and gun ...

The Grand Army Hall

Following the end of the American Civil War veterans from both the Union and Confederate forces formed the veterans organization the G.A.R. or the Grand Army of the Republic. On 28 March 1883, the George Ellis Post 171 was established ...

Bakersfield National Cemetery

Dedicated to the Memory of

All the Patriotic Men and Women

Who Answered Their Country's Call to Service

George W. Bush

President of the United States

James B. Peake

Secretary

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

William F. Tuerk

Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs

National Cemetery Administration

Marker is on East Bear ...