A Tribute to Joe Rumpza - The Vegetable King

1922 - 2002

Potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkins and greens,

sumptuous sweet-corn, all sorts of beans,

cantaloupe, honeydew, name any melon,

planted then ripened, soon ready for sellin’.

What sort of hard-workin’ son-of-gun

could get things to market, get the job done?

Joe Rumpza! Joe Rumpza! A name known ...

John Groot

Farm and

Burial Place

John Groot

Officer 3d Regiment

Albany County Militia

War of Revolution

Marker is on Western Avenue (County Route 397), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

John Harris, Founder of Harrisburg

On October 25,1755 John Harris, Founder of Harrisburg, and a party of 40 men who came up the river to investigate the (John) Penn's Creek Massacre, were ambushed by a party of Indians near the mouth of this creek at ...

The (John) Penn's Creek Massacre

In commemoration of The (John) Penn's Creek Massacre, which occurred along this stream on October 16, 1755 when the settlers were attacked by the Indians and about 26 were killed, wounded or carried into captivity. This was the first Indian ...

In Memory of Juanita

The Spanish woman also known as Josefa, was hung off the Jersey Bridge July 5, 1851 a short distance down stream from this spot, for the murder of Frederick Alexander Agustus Cannon.

Cannon and his friends were celebrating Independence Day and ...

John James Audubon in Cincinnati

The Cincinnati Museum of Natural History is part of Cincinnati Museum Center. The Western Museum Society, organized by Dr. Daniel Drake in 1818, preceded it. The Western Museum Society's collection was built around ornithology, fossil zoology, geology, and Native ...

Joseph M. Staples

Re-Dedicated July 1, 1986

To The Memory of

JOSEPH M. STAPLES

El Dorado County Deputy Sheriff

Who Was Killed In The Line

Of Duty July 1, 1864

Marker can be reached from Bee Street.

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John Dangberg House

This house was designed for John Dangberg by Frederic DeLongchamps, a noted architect throughout the West. Construction was completed in 1912. John was one of the Dangberg Brothers who founded Minden in 1906. Dangberg Land and Livestock Company established the ...

Chimayo Trading Post / Trujillo House

Restored 1939 on the site of original 1926 trading post.

A Registered Cultural Property State of New Mexico

Marker is at the intersection of Sandia Drive (U.S. 285) and New Mexico Route 68, on the left when traveling east on Sandia Drive. ...

The Schools of Josephine City

In 1882, the former slaves and free colored people of this community built the Josephine City School to provide their children with a grade school education. Under the leadership of Rev. Edward Johnson, a new building was completed in 1930 ...