The “Main Tunnel”

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The Beginning

of New Almaden’s

Rich History

Just ahead lies the original site of mining activity in New Almaden’s rich history, where Ohlone Indians extracted cinnabar ore from a “red cave”. In 1845, while visiting Mission Santa Clara, Mexican soldier Andres ...

The Stover - McGinnis House

“Make Me a Map of the Valley”

March 26, 1862: “In the morning our battalion was ordered back to Narrow Passage, … near the rest of the army. Hd. Qrs. were established at Miss Stover’s, in the stone house, near Narrow ...

The Custer Home

This 116 acre "French ribbon farm", purchased by General George Armstrong Custer, his brother, Nevin, and their wives August 22, 1871, ran northerly from the River Raisin. Nevin Custer farmed it until his death. The present Custer Airport, created from ...

Meet You Under the Clock

Since 1907, generations of Vancouverites have arranged downtown rendevous with one simple phrase - "meet you under the Birks clock!"

Erected as "a public convenience for the people of Vancouver", this stalwart timepiece has stood in front of the main ...

Position of the Monitors

The monitors took positions against the far marsh in the direction of the arrow, between 900 and 1200 yards from the fort during the following series of attacks: by the MONTAUK, January 27, February 1, and February 28, 1863; and ...

Site of Athens Academy

first school for higher education

in this section

Planned 1797 - Opened 1814 - Razed 1925

Stephen C. Foster

was an academy student in 1840-1841

here in 1841 in Old Tioga Point

he wrote his first composition

The Tioga Waltz

Marker is on Main Street (State Highway 199), ...

A Town at the Bottom

About two miles in front of you, the remains of the town of Callville lie buried in silt on the bottom of Lake Mead. Originally developed as a port on the Colorado River to supply goods to Mormon settlements, Callville ...

Site of the Home of Josiah Hughes Bell

1791 - 1838

One of the “Old Three Hundred” who came to Texas with Stephen F. Austin in 1821 • First alcade of Austin's Colony • On this tract of 6,642 acres, granted him in 1824, was later built the ...

The Meathouse

This building protected one of the most valuable commodities on a mountain farm: the meat supply. The most common meat was pork. Without refrigeration, salting and smoking were the most common means of preserving meat and protecting it from insects ...

Mount Zion United Methodist Church and Heritage Center, and the

1334 29th Street, NW

Mount Zion United Methodist Church is Washington’s oldest Black congregation. It was established in 1816 by Shadrack Nugent and 125 other congregants who split from nearby Montgomery Street Methodist Church (now Dumbarton United Methodist) over its racial ...