Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

1774–1809, 1770–1838

Bold and farseeing pathfinders who carried the flag of the young republic to the western ocean and revealed an unknown empire to the uses of mankind.

A territory of 385000 square miles was added to the country by the efforts ...

Massacre of the French

Matanzas Inlet

In 1565 some 300 French castaways, under Jean Ribault, were massacred here by Spaniards, crushing their attempt to occupy Florida. The French ships, sailing from Fort Caroline to attack St. Augustine, were driven ashore by a storm. At this ...

The Cross Farmhouse

The Alfred Judson Cross Farmhouse was built in 1905, replacing an earlier structure built by Cross's father and lost to fire earlier that year. The house was rebuilt on the same foundation using timber cut on the farm and sawn ...

Treasures from the Past

Town of Berlin

Berlin's main street follows the course of the old Philadelphia post road which served as a principal stage route and course of land transportation during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Tradition holds that the name Berlin came from a ...

Memorial to the 1st California Cavalry Volunteers

Lieut. James Barrett – Co. A.

Private George Johnson – Co. A.

Private William S. Leonard - Co. D

1st California Cavalry Volunteers

Killed April 15, 1862 At Picacho Pass.

In only battle of the Civil War

Fought in Arizona Territory

Courtesy hmdb.org

History of the Alabama State Bar

On December 13, 1878, a meeting was held in Montgomery for the purpose of forming a bar association, and on January 15, 1879, delegates from each county met for five days at a preliminary conference in the Hall of the ...

The Comstock Trail and History Kiosk

[Panel 1]:

Comstock Trail

You will find the trail head sign a hundred yards ahead, next to the recycling/dump site. Beyond the dump site is a ridge extending to your left. The trail winds along this ridge for two miles through Pinyon ...

St. Peter's (Meetze's) Lutheran Church

This church, organized in 1780, held services in German and English until 1874. In 1835 it aligned with the Tennessee Synod and remained in it until 1922, when St. Peter's reunited with the South Carolina Synod. This 1953 sanctuary is ...

Wethersfield Elm

1748 1953

Here Stood

The Wethersfield Elm

Largest Of Its Kind

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street and Elm Street, on the left when traveling south on Broad Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Montgomery Theater

On a wall in this building,

"The Montgomery Theater"

Dan Emmett

first inscribed the score of Dixie

for his minstrel orchestra.

H.F. Arnold

arranged it for band music and used it at

the inauguration of

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederacy.

February 18, 1861

Marker is at the intersection of ...