The Ajo Mining District

Americans first worked the copper deposits at Ajo in 1854, one year after the Gadsden Purchase. These early American miners found abandoned workings and crude mining tools as mute evidence of earlier mining in the district.

During the next half century ...

The Great Meadows Campaign

“Up to this time the colonies have been acting as entirely separate and independent states.” From message of Governor James Glenn to the South Carolina Assembly, March 5, 1754.

The Great Meadows Campaign marked the first active united action on the ...

Treatment of the Wounded

The Rochester House stood on this site until its demolition in the mid-1950s. During the Civil War, it was the home of Mrs. Frances Howell Kennedy, widow of Dr. Howard Kennedy. From the beginning of the War, Mrs. Kennedy provided ...

The Shenandoah Lumber Company

Patterned after the old flumes built to transport lumber out of the west coast mountains at the turn of the century, this is a classic log flume designed and manufactured for family fun.

Water flows through the trough at 3,500 gallons ...

The March of Hardee’s Corps, May 23-25, 1864

Lt. Gen. Hardee’s A.C. [CS], having marched from Stegall’s Station (Emerson) near the Etowah River & camped at the Dr. Smith house, May 23rd, passed New Hope Church on the 24th, enroute to the Dallas front.

This moving left flank of ...

John Pray - Founder of Waterville,Ohio / The Miami and Erie Cana

[East Side of Marker] : "John Pray - Founder of Waterville, Ohio"

Born in Rhode Island, John Pray (1783-1872) moved to the Maumee River Valley from New York shortly after serving in the War of 1812 and completing a prospecting ...

American Baptist Seminary of the West - Hobart Hall

City of Berkeley Landmark - designated in 1999

This compact complex of buildings linked by a series of arcades and academic quads in the English tradition was created to house one of Berkeley's oldest seminaries. Hobart Hall, designed by Julia Morgan, ...

Army of the Potomac

July 6, 1863

First Corps marched from Gettysburg to Emmitsburg. Fifth Corps from Marsh Run to Moritz's Cross-Roads. Sixth Corps from Fairfield to Emmitsburg except the Third brigade, Second Division which in conjunction with the First Brigade, Second Cavalry Division was ...

The Toledo State Hospital Old Cemetery, 1888-1922

[Front Side of Marker] : "The Toledo State Hospital Old Cemetery, 1888-1922"

Toledo State Hospital opened in January 1888 as the Toledo Asylum for the Insane. Originally located immediately south of this cemetery, the hospital was designed to function as a ...

Woodmen of the World

On this site

Woodmen of the World

Life Insurance Society

was organized

June 6, 1890

Marker is on Farnam Street, on the left when traveling west.

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