Camp Ford - Establishment of the Camp

In March 1862, the movement of the Confederate army in Northern Arkansas to the Mississippi River left the northern frontier of the Trans-Mississippi virtually defenseless. Immediate efforts in Texas were made to raise new regiments for service in Arkansas. ...

USS West Virginia Memorial

At 0758, 7 December 1941,

near this spot at Bert Fox 6

the USS West Virginia

moored outboard the USS Tennessee

was damaged and sunk by enemy bombs and torpedoes.

As the West Virginia settled to the bottom

she forced the Tennessee against the ...

FDR's Salute

to the Officers and Men ... USS "San Francisco"'

In Salute

to the Officers and Men, living and dead, of the

U.S.S. “San Francisco”

a warship named for our city, which though

sorely wounded, emerged triumphantly from the

Battle of ...

The Changing Yard

In its first years, the navy yard consisted of a small dock and several wooden storehouses, surrounded by mud flats and rolling pastures. In 1812, the commandant noted:

"the establishment...afforded no advantage or facility for naval purposes... a few temporary wooden ...

"A state of perfect chaos"

William Bainbridge 1812

This 1833 view of Boston from the west end of the Navy Yard shows a harbor full of busy activity. The steeple of the Old North Church is still a prominent landmark.

[courtesy Library of Congress]

The Navy Yard in ...

A Legacy of the Past

Box Canyon and Lomaki ruins are a short 15-minute walk from here, along the edges of ancient earthcracks. The 1/4-mile trail will take you back in time over 800 years to the remnants of this once-thriving community. You will see ...

Cayuga-Seneca Canal Entrance

At this point in 1828, water from Seneca Lake was first released into the newly constructed Cayuga-Seneca Canal, forming a navigable link to the Erie Canal. The waterway enabled commerce to flow between Seneca and the Hudson River and soon ...

Fay and Bowen Engine Company

Known for its boats, the Fay & Bowen Engine Company built quality pleasure craft and marine and industrial engines near this site from 1904 to 1929. Fay & Bowen sold launches and runabouts worldwide that earned them the reputation - ...

Daily Life

Plaza

An open area in the pueblo near the rim of the earthcrack is known as the plaza. In pueblos, the plaza was the center for many daily activities including grinding corn, making pottery, working obsidian into arrowheads, processing other plants ...

Sunset Crater Volcano

The distant San Francisco Peaks would have looked much like they do today. To the east, however, Sunset Crater Volcano would still have been belching black smoke and cinders when the Sinagua and Anaszi lived here. The thick layer of ...