The Columbiad

In front of you stands a rifled and banded columbiad cannon mounted as a mortar (aimed upward). It is mounted like the gun being inspected by a South Carolina delegation after the evacuation of Fort Sumter by Union troops in ...

St. Mary’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral Church

This church was first built as a ‘chapel of ease’ in 1900 to accommodate the parishioners of Cockburn Town. At that time, St. Thomas’ Church, which was the first church in Grand Turk, was quite a distance from the town ...

Rearming the Fort

The fort wall before you, called the right face, sustained the least damage of any of Fort Sumter's walls (scarps) during the Union bombardment of 1863-65.

After the Civil War, the fort's first-tier casemates including those before you, were rearmed ...

The Development of the Kansas City area Frontier Trails Network

Trail Map

The Santa Fe Trail went through two decades of change in the Kansas City area before evolving into it's final form by about 1840. In the early years of that decade it also became the route of the ...

Pioneer Families of the Ohio Company

Erected by the New Century Historical Society to record the names and commemorate the landing near this spot of the pioneer families of the Ohio Company August nineteenth 1788. Their homes were established in Campus Martius.

Benjamin Tupper

Huldah Tupper.

Nathaniel Cushing

Elizabeth Cushing.

Nathan ...

The Washington-Rochambeau Route to Victory

On August 14, 1781, Generals Washington and Rochambeau received news that a large French fleet under the command of Admiral de Grasse was headed for the Chesapeake Bay carrying 3,000 French soldiers. There the British general, Cornwallis, was encamped with ...

The Mojave Road

Long ago Mohave Indians used a network of pathways to cross the Mojave Desert to reach the Pacific Coast from their homes along the Colorado River. In 1776, the Spanish Missionary Francisco Garces became the first non-Indian to trek these ...

Mather Field

Named for 2Lt C. S. Mather killed in 1918.

• 1918–Pilot Training School.

• 1930’s–Supply Depot.

• 1940’s–Pilot and Nav School.

• 1950’s–Nav School.

• 1960’s–SAC Bomb Wing

and AF Nav/EWO Schools.

• 1993–Based closed.

• 1998–VA Clinic Started.

Marker is ...

Prescott's Beginnings: The First Mining District in Yavapai Coun

The City of Prescott had its beginnings in the Spring of 1863 when a party of explorers and would-be gold miners led by the famed Joseph R. Walker arrived near the headwaters of the Hassayampa River. On May 10, 1863, ...

The National Bank of Martinez

Founded 1924

R.E. Claeys J.W. McClellan M. Pistochini J. Comazzi O.K. Smith G. Winkelman J. Sparacino

Robert B. Borland President

A.J. Heald Cashier

P. Ferrarini Vice President

Bank of Italy 1927-1930

Bank of America 1930-1951

Historical Marker No. VIII

Martinez Historical Society

July 4, 1993

Marker is at the ...