Mormon Battalion Historical Marker

"History may be searched in vain for an equal march of infantry"

Lt. Col. Cooke

The Mormon Battalion, of some 500 men marched through this area during November of 1846. The march covered over 2000 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa to San ...

General Post Office

National Historic Landmark

General Post Office

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935.

This site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating or illustrating

the history of the United ...

Peace and Victory Monument

To those who served

in our nation's wars

through whose courage

and sacrifice came

victory and peace

Marker is on Upper Glen Street (U.S. 9), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fremont Street

This is a two sided marker

Side A:

Standing on Fremont Street today, it's hard to visualize the canvas tents with hand-painted wooden signs that lined this dusty street and served as hotels, saloons, shops and banks in the early 1900's. During ...

Miller Drug Store

Built in 1879, this building has been a mercantile, pharmacy, grocery, post office and telephone exchange.

Site No. 1304

A Register Cultural Property State of New Mexico

Marker is on New Mexico Route 152 at milepost 48.8, on the left when traveling west. ...

Abraham Lincoln

On his only visit to Kansas, he spoke in Troy, December 1, 1859, at the Court House located about 100 feet west of this site. It was reported that the Troy speech was a trial run of his Cooper ...

Marine

The first commercial sawmill in Minnesota was erected 300 feet east of here in 1838. The lumbering industry, which monopolized the minds and talents of men in the St. Croix Valley for three-quarters of a century, was born with the ...

Gilroy Carnegie Library

This Property

Is Listed in the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Carnegie Library

1910

Marker is on Fifth Street when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Nike Hercules Missile

Anti-aircraft missiles like this Nike Hercules once stood guard around many major U.S. cities and facilities during the Cold War. They were capable of knocking down high-flying, fast-moving bombers with high-explosive warheads or, equipped with a nuclear warhead, destroying a ...

Alexandria's Oldest Hospital

The Alexandria Sanitarium, founded by six area physicians, was opened January 1, 1903 in a former hotel at Second and Lee streets "to provide for a skillful treatment of medical and surgical cases of any nature." In 1905 the first ...