West Jordan Settlement

Building On Our Heritage

When the Mormon Pioneers first came to the Salt Lake Valley, the river running west of the city was called the Western Jordan. All the area south of Big Cottonwood Creek was known as West Jordan.

Thomas Butterfield, ...

D.H. Hill's Division, Jackson's Command

C.S.A.

D.H. Hill's Division, Jackson's Command.

Major General D.H. Hill, Commanding.

(September 15-16, 1862.)

D.H. Hill's Division led the retreat from South Mountain on the night of the 14th. Rodes' and Colquitt's Brigades, both under command of Rodes, were hastened to Sharpsburg to expel ...

John Abbot (1751-1839)

Ornithologist, Entomologist, Artist

»—1/3 Mi.?

In the old McElveen Cemetery, one-third of a mile northeast of this marker, is the grave of John Abbot, pioneer naturalist of Georgia. Abbot was born in London June 1, 1751, and in early youth ...

Hexamer's (New Jersey) Battery

September 17, 1862

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From 3.30 p.m. until near sunset this battery from a point about 80 yards north of this, engaged the enemy around the Piper buildings.

Marker is on Richardson Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

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Former Home of Henry R. Jackson

Union Army Headquarters 1865

This building, now the quarters of a private Club, was erected in 1857 for Edmund Molyneux, British consul at Savannah, and served as his residence and as the Consulate until Molyneux's return to England in 1863. In ...

Joan of Arc

Riverside Park

This impressive bronze equestrian sculpture of 15th century French patriot and martyr Joan of Arc (1411-1431) is one of the finest works of art in the Parks collection. Created by the eminent artist and art patron Anna Vaughn ...

Major General Israel B. Richardson

Major General

Israel B. Richardson

U.S.A.

Mortally Wounded

45 Yards N. 32'E.

Marker is on Richardson Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

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Brigadier General Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr.

[Marker Front]:

Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. (July 1, 1877 - November 26, 1970), the nation's first African American general in the Regular Army, was born in Washington, D.C. Davis first served as a temporary first lieutenant of the 8th U.S. Volunteer ...

Samuel J. Tilden

1814 - 1886

Patriot – Statesman

Lawyer – Philanthropist

Governor of New York

Democratic Nominee

for the Presidency

1876

“I trust the people.”

Marker is at the intersection of Riverside Drive and W 112th Street, on the right when traveling north on Riverside Drive.

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Beechcraft UC-45J Expeditor

Bu. No. 89484

The C-45 was developed from the Beech Model 18 civil transport which first flew on 15 January 1937. The USAAF placed orders for its first aircraft in 1940, acquiring nearly 1300 of the Beech 18s modified for various ...