The Top of the Smokies

Clingmans Dome

At 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest mountain in Great Smokey Mountains National Park and is one of the highest peaks in the eastern United States.

An observation tower at the summit takes you above the treetops for a ...

The Morton House

This house built in 1849, by Eleazar Morton and his son Henry, was occupied until 1936 by four generations of Mortons. The oak-framed barn was built in 1840. Members of the Morton family, pioneers in this area, were prominent in ...

The Arthur V. Rohweder Memorial Highway

So designated by the Minnesota State Legislature and enacted into State Law, April 20, 1961.

In recognition of the eminent leadership and outstanding contributions of Arthur V. Rohweder to the achievement by Minnesota of notable success and national prominence in all ...

The McCallie School

A boarding and day day school preparing more than 6,300 boys for college in its first 75 years. McCallie was established on this former Missionary Ridge battlefield in 1905. The founder, the Rev. Thomas Hooke McCallie, Civil War pastor of ...

Scottsdale Grammar School / The Little Red Schoolhouse

1909

State Plaque:

Scottsdale Grammar School

Dedicated February 26, 1910

on the 73rd birthday of

Scottsdale's founder

Chaplain Winfield Scott

This building served the

people of Scottsdale as

School

Community Center

City Hall and Justice Court

Library

City of Scottsdale Marker:

Little Red Schoolhouse

1909

1909 - 1928 Scottsdale Grammar School

1973 - Present Scottsdale Chamber of ...

Netherlands Memorial

On the 22nd of April 1625 the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company decreed the establishment of Fort Amsterdam and the creation of ten adjoining farms. The purchase of the Island of Manhattan was accomplished in 1626. Thus was ...

The Baltic Mine Project

Few local miners still burrow underground, lured by the rich yellow gleam of gold. Most gold now recovered from California’s Rand Mining District is microscopic in size, and so finely dispersed that it is invisible to the naked eye. Rock ...

Buttons from the River

The residents of Stevens Point depended on the Wisconsin River not only to transport logs, but also to provide clam shells for the button industry. The clammers found an abundance of quality shells in the river to support a commercial ...

The Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan

Designed by its first Vicar, the Reverend George Stewart, this is the oldest church building in continuous use in Sauk Centre. Construction was begun in the spring of 1869 and completion of the $6700 structure was made possible by a ...

Netherlands Monument

Preserving History

This monumental flagstaff commemorates the Dutch establishment of New Amsterdam and the seventeenth century European settlement that launched the modern metropolis of New York City. Designed by Dutch sculptor H.A. van den Eijnde (1869-1939), the monument was dedicated in ...