Settlers from Bukovina, Austria

In memory of the settlers from Bukovina, Austria who stepped off the train at this location. Beginning in 1886 the German speaking immigrants brought a strong Christian faith and work ethic to build a future for their families in the ...

Ellis' Original Main Street

Officially organized and founded as a city in 1870, the first street laid out and used was known as Edwards Street (now west 9th). The heart of Ellis' business district started and grew here offering such services as hotels, saloons, ...

Washington Reformed Presbyterian Church

This tablet is made to preserve the memory of pioneers, God fearing people from Scotland and Ireland who organized this church in 1841, as a place to meet together and worship

Andrew McCornack • Robert Shedden •

William Fraser •

George ...

Wartime Jail

Asheville's Prisons

During the war, many large buildings such as schools, warehouses, and churches became temporary prisons in Southern cities. After Asheville's jail on Pack Square overflowed with Confederate draft evaders, deserters, Union prisoners of war, and runaway slaves, the adjacent ...

Site where James Dickey Wrote Deliverance

Friends of Libraries U.S.A.

Literary Landmarks Register

University of

South Carolina

Site where

James Dickey

Wrote Deliverance and other

major works from 1969-1997

is designated a Literary Landmark

by Friends of Libraries U.S.A.

Friends of South Carolina Libraries

April 17, 1999

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Henry Clay's Law Office

Erected 1803-04, this is the only office standing used by Clay; he occupied it from 1804 until ca. 1810. During these significant years in his career, Clay was elected to successive terms in legislature and to unexpired terms in the ...

Cloud-Climbing Railroad

In order to provide timber for the construction of his El Paso & Northeastern Railroad north of Alamagordo, Charles B. Eddy in 1898 built a spur into the Sacramento Mountains. The line operated as far as Cloudcroft until 1947. The ...

Battle of Resace De La Palma

Resaca De La Palma

9 May 1846

Marker can be reached from Pitcher Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle of Vera Cruz

Vera Cruz

1847

Marker can be reached from Pitcher Road.

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Site of Fort Zarah

1822 - 1872

on

Santa Fe Trail

Marker is on U.S. 56, on the left when traveling east.

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