Peter J. Dalessandro

Congressional Medal of Honor

Peter J. Dalessandro

Congressional Medal of Honor

Technical Sergeant, US Army, Company E. 39th Infantry, 9th

Infantry Division Sergeant DAlessandro was born May 19, 1918.

Entered service at: Watervliet, N.Y.

Presented the Congressional Medal of Honor

by President Harry S. Truman ...

St. Joseph’s Catholic Church

Built in 1862 by the people of Mariposa under the direction of Father Auger the church was dedicated and the first mass was said on January 18, 1863 by Archbishop Alemany

Marker is on First Street near Bullion Street.

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Mariposa County’s Old Stone Jail

This 33 X 26 foot structure was built in 1858 from granite blocks quarried near Mormon Bar at a cost of 14,744.00 by J.O. Lovejoy. It originally had two stories and a gallows at the east end. In 1892 a ...

Joseph L. Meek

Born 1810 - Died 1875

Born in Washington Co. Va., Meek leaves home at age 18, arriving in St. Louis in the fall of 1828. Meek signs on as a trapper with the Rocky Mtn. Fur Co., remaining in the ...

The Jacobus Vanderveer House

Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Farmhouse Built c. 1760.

Headquarters of General Henry Knox During The 1778-1779 Winter Encampment Of The Continental Army Near Pluckemin

Marker is on U.S. 202/206, on the right when traveling south.

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Capt. Anthony J. Synodinos & 1st Lt. Edward G. Conrad,

Civil Air Patrol

In memory of

Capt. Anthony J. Synodinos, CAP

Chaplain (1 Lt.) Edward G. Conrad, CAP

They died April 6, 1954, in an airplane crash off this point while performing a search and rescue mission. Service like theirs ...

Dr. John McLoughlin 1784 - 1857

Oregon History

Chief factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, philanthropist, and founder of Oregon City. The land on the east bank of the Willamette River at the falls was claimed by Dr. McLoughlin and the Hudson’s Bay ...

Old Jacksonborough

Founded about 1735 on lands granted John Jackson in 1701; county seat of Colleton District from 1799 to 1822. Provisional capital of state while Charleston was under siege in the closing months of the American Revolution. First South Carolina Legislature ...

Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock

United States Army

(Front):Born - February-14-1824

Died - February-9-1886

Major-General

Winfield Scott Hancock

United States Army

(Back):

Cadet U.S.M.A. July 1, 1840. Brevet Second Lieut. 6th U.S. Infantry July 1, 1844. Second Lieut. June 18, 1846. Regimental Quartermaster June 30, 1848 to October 1, 1849. Regimental Adjutant ...

John Wellborn Root Birthplace Site

John Wellborn Root (1850-1891), world famous architect, was born on this site. The son of Mary Clark and Sidney Root, he was educated in Lumpkin, Atlanta, New York, and Claremont and Oxford in England. A pioneer in some phases of ...