Laundress' Quarters

The four wooden frame buildings that comprised "Sudsville" or "Laundress Row," were located approximately 100 yards behind and to the left of this sign. Each building housed four laundresses and their families in two 12' by 12' rooms. Laundresses were ...

Omaha Beach

Les forces Alliées

débarquent sur cette

plage qu’elle nomment

Omaha Beach et libérent

l’Europe — 6 juin 1944

The Allied forces

landing on this

shore which they call

Omaha Beach liberate

Europe — June 6th 1944

East side:

1st US Infantry Division

—No mission too difficult

—No sacrifice too great . ...

General Gavin’s Foxhole

Ici combattit

Le Général

James-M-Gavin

le 6 juin 1944

Translation:

Here fought

General

James M. Gavin

June 6, 1944

Marker is on Route D15, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bake House

The foundation before you marks the stone bake house, where all the fort's bread was baked. The inner rectangular foundation at the east (right) end marks the oven, while the foundation of the pantry is in the west (left) end. ...

Guardhouse

The native limestone guardhouse replaced an earlier wooden structure in 1872. It included a room for the non-commissioned officer of the guard, the guardroom, and the military prison, which included three solitary cells.

Most prisoners were enlisted men, held for disorderly ...

Site of the McDonald Massacre

Pioneer preacher Matthew Taylor and the families of his daughter and two sons moved here in 1863 from their homestead on the Llano River. They built a cabin on this site near the source of the Pedernales River. In August ...

Talbert Home

Sam and Hattie Talbert came here in 1897. He built a river levee and huge ditches so that the land would drain to permit regular farming.

Marker is on Bushard Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Helm Tract

The Helm Tract was recorded and laid out in 1923. Four streets ran north and south while Helm Street was the east - west connection.

Marker is at the intersection of South Third Street and Talbert Avenue, on the right when ...

The Beginning of Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service

One of the nation's earliest cooperative

extension offices was established in 1910

in Schellsburg, Bedford County, with A.B.

Ross as county agent. The innovative

program sought to educate farmers about

agricultural science to increase their

productivity. County extension offices are

now found throughout the U.S. Farmers and

other ...

Barry Scobee Mountain

1 Mi. North 6300 Ft. Elev.

Camp grounds and lookout post (1850's-1880's) for military, mail coaches, freighters, travelers, emigrants. Site of area's last Indian raid, 1881. Part of John G. Prude Ranch.

Named by Gov. John Connally Dec. 21, 1964, to honor ...