Devastated Area

[Two markers, side-by-side, describe the events that created the Devastated Area.]

Marker 1:

A Night to Remember

May 19, 1915

You are standing in the aftermath of the volcanic destruction known as the Devastated Area. Late on the evening of May 19, 1915, a ...

1848 – Lassen Trail – 1849

Peter Lassen passed this way when he blazed 'The Lassen Trail' as he led a party of emigrants from Missouri to California by way of Deer Creek Pass.

Marker can be reached from California Route 36 at milepost 102, on the ...

Ingrid Bergman

Lisner Auditorium was built in 1946, boasting the biggest stage south of New York City. On its opening night, October 29, 1946, the famed 29 year-old actress Ingrid Bergman was starring in Joan of Lorraine. When Ms. Bergman found out ...

Home of General Nathaniel Massie

Built 1800, One Fourth Mile South

Nathaniel Massie, born Goochland County, Virginia, December 28, 1763, 1800 married Sarah Everard Mead, died November 13, 1813.

Revolutionary soldier; surveyor of wilderness then known as Northwest Territory and locator of Revolutionary War land grants.

1780-87 Cut ...

Fort Omaha Quartermaster Depot

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

Even after the 1869 completion of the transcontinental railroad, the Army relied on mules and wagons to outfit its isolated posts. The Department of the Platte, headquartered at Fort Omaha, paid over $700,000 to acquire and transport ...

Fort Omaha Headquarters Building

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

Constructed in 1906, this double barracks building housed noncommissioned officers of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, which had reactivated Fort Omaha in 1905. During World War I, this building served as South Post Headquarters for the Army’s ...

Durham-Perry Farmstead

Durham-Perry Farmstead is located on the Perry Farm. It is maintained and operated as an historic site by the Bourbonnais Township Park District.

This plan shows the farmstead as it is today. The drawing is not the scale. The farmstead occupies ...

New-York Historical Society

The New-York Historical Society, founded in 1804 in Manhattan, is New York's oldest museum. The museum presents exhibitions, public programs and related to the history of New York and its relationship to the United States as a whole and holds ...

The Ogeechee River

On Nov. 28, 1864, the Left Wing (14th and 20th Corps) of Gen. Sherman’s army [US], less Morgan’s and Baird’s divisions, 14th Corps, which had marched via Fenn’s Bridge (10 mi. NW), and Jackson’s and Geary’s divisions, 20th Corps, which ...

The Stewart Building

Julius Kauffman (1856-1935) and Julius Runge (1851-1906), second generation owners of a commission firm established in 1842, had architect Eugene T. Heiner design this renaissance revival building in the north Italian mode. Contractor Robert Palisser completed the structure in 1882. ...