Jesse M. Unruh State Office Building

Designated on the 19th day of August 1987

By the

Honorable George Deukmejian

Governor of California

In honor of

Jesse Marvin Unruh

September 30, 1922 – August 4, 1987

Member of the Assembly, 1955 – 1970

Speaker of the Assembly, 1961 – 1968

Treasurer of California, 1974 – 1987

Marker ...

Historic Site in Journalism

John Scull in 1786 was the first reporter to have type and press transported through the rough wilderness to establish a newspaper west of the major Allegheny Range.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is the direct descendent of the Gazette which Scull ...

First Moorestown, New Jersey Friends Meeting House

The granite stone behind this plaque marks the location of the first Friends Meeting House. Built of logs in 1700. It was the earliest building for worship in Moorestown.

In 1720, it burned and was replaced with a large stone building ...

Benjamin Smith Barton

1766 - 1815

Physician, professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of first American botany textbook. In 1803, he taught natural history to Meriwether Lewis in preparation for Lewis & Clark Expecition, 1803 - 1806. He lived ...

Father Junipero Serra 1713-1784

Upper marker - English

Born on the island of Majorca, off the coast of Spain, Father Serra was ordained in Palma where he taught for fifteen years before being sent to Mexico as a missionary in 1749. In 1769 ...

Major General George Gordon Meade

United States Army

(Right Side):Major General George Gordon Meade

United States Army

Commander of the Army of the Potomac

Born-December 31 1815 Died-November 6 1872

(Left Side):

Cadet U.S.M.A. Sept 1,1831; Brevet Second Lieut. 3d U.S. Artillery July 1, 1835; Second Lieut. December 31, 1835; Resigned ...

Birthplace of Benjamin Harvey Hill

>>-- 1 mile -->

Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill (1823-1882), first to proclaim the New South industrial rather than agricultural, was born one mile from here. When he was 12 years old his father, John Hill, moved with his family to Long ...

Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade

"Gen. Meade has my confidence as a brave and skillful officer, and a true man."

President Abraham Lincoln

July 21, 1863

The sculpture in front of you depicts Gettysburg's Union commander, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, at the climax of ...

James Clyman--Trapper and Explorer

James Clyman - Trapper and Explorer. Prominent in opening the Far West. He was with Jedediah Smith in 1824 at South Pass. Prepared the way for the pre-Gold Rush pioneers. Settled in Napa County in 1848.

Marker can be reached from ...

Jay Cooke

Perhaps no individual in the history of Duluth had such a dramatic influence on the port's infant development than Jay Cooke, a Philadelphia financier. Cooke's reign at the Head-of-the-Lakes was brief, but all-encompassing for commercial development.

One of Cooke's earliest achievements ...