Western Terminus of the Lincoln Highway

You are standing at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first direct coast-to-coast highway from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. It was conceived in 1912 by Carl Fisher (founder of the ...

Bustling Shipyards

When the first settlers arrived in the Sheboygan area early in the 1830s, they were awed by the seemingly endless verdant pine forests and stands of hardwood that covered the county. With lake transportation the very lifeblood of the early ...

Franklin

Incorporated as a town in 1876, Franklin began as a Southampton County village in the 1830s. In October, 1862, during the Civil War, Union gunboats on the Blackwater River shelled the town and the railroad station. Several skirmishes occurred nearby ...

Socorro

Site of the mission and pueblo of Nuestra Señora de la Concepción Del Pueblo de Socorro established by Don Antonio de Otermin and Father Fray Francisco Ayeta, O.F.M. in 1683. Maintained by Franciscan missionaries for the civilizing and Christianizing of ...

Rathmoyle Cemetery

Rathmoyle Cemetery is unique in that it is the property of the parish and is maintained solely by the local population.

The site appeas on the 1st edition of the 6 inch O.S. series of maps for Co. Roscommon as a ...

Christ Church- Cambridge

Oldest church building

in Cambridge.

Built in 1760

occupied by

Continental troops

in 1775.

Marker is on Garden Street north of Mason Street, on the left when traveling north.

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The Journey West

After the 1848 discovery of gold in California, more than 100,000 sturdy Americans passed through St. Joseph on their way west in quest of wealth, opportunity and better lives. The "Gold Rush" began and those who followed the "Star of ...

Seven - Inch Banded Brooks Rifle

This gun was employed in the bombardment of federal troops at Fort Sumter from Fort Johnson on April 12 and 13, 1861.

Marker is on Murray Boulevard.

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Samuel Whittemore

Near this spot

Samuel Whittemore,

then 80 years old,

killed three British soldiers

April 19, 1775.

He was shot, bayoneted,

beaten and left for dead,

but recovered and lived

to be 98 years of age.

Marker is at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue (U.S. 3) and Pleasant Street, on ...

Camino Real

For more than 200 years the Camino Real, or Royal Road, was the major route for transporting commercial goods from Mexico City and Chihuahua to Santa Fe and Taos. First traveled by Juan de Onate during his 1598 expedition to ...