Auction Site / First Train Depot

This is a two sided marker

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Auction Site

At this site on May 15th 1905, the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad auctioned off lots for the creation of the new city of Las Vegas. With 110 degree temperatures ...

McBee's Ferry

1/2 mile NW, near the present railway bridge, this ferry was established by William McBee in the last decade of the 18th century. Many early travelers have, in their diaries, mentioned using it.

Marker is on Tennessee Route 11E, on the ...

Centenary Methodist Church

Designed by noted Philadelphia architect Edwin Forrest Durand, the church was built in 1865 by Cornelius Arnett. An 1895 renovation added the rounded arch entrance as well as second level stained glass windows. The church contributes to the significance of ...

Snake Ridge Lookout Tower

Reconstructed on this site, this lookout tower once stood off S.R. 278 southwest of Nelsonville in Athens County. Known as the Snake Ridge Lookout Tower this tower was originally built in 1939.

Many of the lookout towers were built by the ...

Rear Admiral Arthur Clark

Rear Admiral Arthur Clark served two tours as in-country military advisor to South Vietnam military and with USMAV and was one of the last to leave in 1973. He went on to serve in many leadership roles which transformed the ...

Historic Light Standard

Historic Site

This light standard was placed at the entrance to the Las Vegas Union Pacific Railroad Station in 1937. The Depot was removed in 1970 to make way for the Union Plaza Hotel. Mr. Frank Scott, Chairman of The Board ...

Old Revolutionary Fort

In December 1776 General Roche De Fernoy and General William Alexander (Lord Stirling) had their headquarters here at a "hip-roof" house known as The Old Fort. Before the Battle of Trenton, Coryell's Ferry became a military camp. Stockade entrenchments were ...

Ohio 5th Battery Light Artillery

Commanded by Capt. Andrew Hickenlooper -- Prentiss' Division

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Ohio 5th Battery Light Artillery

Commanded by

Capt. Andrew Hickenlooper

Prentiss'(6th) Division

Army of the Tennessee

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This battery went into action at 7.30 a.m., April 6, 1862,in Spain field. At 9 a.m. it retired to this place ...

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 ...

8th Iowa Infantry

Sweeny's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

(front):Iowa

In memory of her

8th Infantry,

Sweeny's (3d) Brigade,

W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Division,

Army of the Tennessee

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Iowa

8th Regiment Infantry Volunteers,

Commanded by Col. James L. Geddes.

The regiment held this position from about 11 a.m., April 6, 1862, until about ...