Sanford's First Residents

Over 1,000 years ago, the Timucua (tee-MOO-quo) people established villages in this area. They fished, hunted, and grew crops such as maize, squash, and beans.

By the 1700s, the Timucuans began to disappear as they succumbed to war and disease ...

The Dreaming Tree

This large cottonwood tree still stands where Walt and Ruth played and waded in the spring that runs at its base. Daydreaming under the giant cottonwood young Walt Disney would observe the whole of nature surrounding him – the bugs, ...

Kate and Ella 1895

"Katella Ranch"

Kate and Ella the daughters of the Rea Family were early settlers

of Anaheim. The family named their ranch "Katella Ranch"

after their daughters. The original Anaheim wagon track was

later named after them and is now Katella Ave.

Artist: Ramon G Velazco

June ...

Portland Head Light Bell (1942)

This historic Coast Guard Bell from Portland Head Light is being loaned to the City of Rockland (a Coast Guard City) for their outstanding support of the men and women of the United States Coast Guard

Marker is on Park Drive ...

The Steam Donkey

How the Dolbeer Donkey steam engine got its name is one of the real mysteries of the West. Some folks say it was called a "donkey" because loggers thought it was too puny to merit a horsepower rating invented by ...

Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse

Construction of this 4,300-foot long breakwater began in April 1881. Eighteen years, $750,000 and over 732,277 tons of granite later, it was completed on November 24, 1899. The lighthouse dates from 1902 and was placed on the National Register of ...

Hot Shot and Wooden Ships

It was the end of an era: the advent of the ironclad made traditional wooden-hulled warships obsolete. Despite this, the Confederates used a centuries-old device here: the hot-shot furnace. Inside the furnace, solid shot were heated red-hot. Clay wads of ...

Forsyth Bridge

Named by the 5th Cavalry in 1938 for Colonel William Dennison Forsyth Commander of the Fifth U.S. Cavalry at Fort Clark, Aug 1921 - Feb 1924

Placed by "The Colonel's Daughter" Elizabeth Forsyth Scheuber 1995

Marker is on Pecan Road, on the ...

Van Cortlandtville World War Memorial

Erected

in honor of the men

Van Cortlandtville

who served in the

World War

1917 – 1919

Herbert Booth                   U.S.N.

Rowland M. Donnelly         U.S.A.

Stephen E. Donnelly ...

Oldest Commercial Building in Chippewa Falls

The building to your right is the oldest commercial building in Chippewa Falls. It was built (Circa 1859) by Peter Morie (Morey) and was used originally as a Saloon and Boarding House for lumberjacks and others. In 1861 at the ...