The Mormon Trail

Mormons traveled the Great Platte River Road to fulfill a religious mission. In the 1840s members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.(Mormons) moved westward to escape religious persecution. Beginning in 1847 they crossed the Plains to ...

Highest Point on the Maryland State Roads System

Elevation 3095 feet. Maryland State Roads Commission. J. N. Mackall, Chairman & Chief Engineer; L.T. Downey, District Engineer. Contractor: T. D. Claiborne Co. Inc., August Mencken.

Marker is on George Washington Highway (U.S. 50) east of Table Rock Road, on the ...

The Toledo State Hospital New Cemetery, 1922-1973

[Front Side of Marker] : "The Toledo State Hospital New Cemetery, 1922-1973"

Toledo State Hospital opened in January 1888 as the Toledo Asylum for the Insane. People were admitted with mild to severe forms of mental illness, and a variety of ...

The Birthplace of Freemasonry in West Texas

A.D. 1848 - A.D. 1948

This plaque was dedicated January 15, 1948, by Alamo Lodge No. 44 A.F.&A.M. commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the chartering of the lodge and honoring those pioneer masons of that era, who founded the lodge ...

Japanese Monument to The Heroes of the Alamo

To the Memory of

The Heroes of the Alamo

[Poem in Chinese follows]

Japanese Monument

The story of the Alamo reaches far beyond the borders of Texas. More than 2.6 million visitors from around the world came to the Alamo in 1996. The DRT ...

Gonzales Men at the Alamo

Erected in grateful recognition of

the supreme act of heroism of the

thirty two men from Gonzales

who gave their lives in the Alamo

in response to the appeal of Travis.

Erected March 1, 1936

Courtesy hmdb.org

Tennessee Volunteers at the Alamo

In commemoration of the

150th Anniversary of Texas Independence

and in honor of the

Tennessee Volunteers

who gave their lives at the Alamo

on March 6, 1836

the Citizens of Tennessee

present this Tennessee Homecoming Tree and Plaque

to the Citizens of Texas

as a symbol of the friendship ...

Heaps Upon Heaps Were There in Death's Embrace

Confederate Soldier in the 3rd Alabama Infantry

(1) Within the first few hours of the battle, Gen. D.H. Hill sent more than half of his 5,000 soldiers to reinforce the northern end of the Confederate line. Of the two brigades that ...

The Belcher-Ogden Mansion

1750

The Belcher Ogden Mansion was the 1750s residence of Governor Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757) of New Jersey, who brought the royal colony’s government to this house. Belcher also sponsored the College of New Jersey which became Princeton University and gave his ...

The Marquis de Lafayette

This monument was erected and presented by

Henry Harteaua distinguished citizen of Brooklyn to be an enduring tribute to the memory of one who as friend and companion of the immortal Washington fought to establish in our country those vital principles ...