Fort Omaha Guardhouse

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

To maintain discipline among a large garrison, Fort Omaha commanders strictly followed the military code of the frontier era. Facing occasional problems with drunkenness, insubordination, fighting and desertion, officers were quick to punish offenders before disorder spread.

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Fort Omaha Post Exchange and Gymnasium

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

In 1880, nearly a dozen years after Fort Omaha was established, indoor hot and cold water bathing facilities were installed – three shower rooms for enlisted men and one for officers. By the end of the 19th ...

Fort Omaha Fire Station

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

Originally a filtration plant constructed in 1912, this building was remodeled and enlarged to become the Post Exchange Building in 1923. All incoming or outgoing calls, whether emergency or routine, would pass through the Post switchboard housed ...

Ordnance Magazine

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

This small, tin-roofed building hardly suggests its central role in the mission of the officers and troops once stationed at Fort Omaha. Constructed in 1883-84, the ordnance magazine was the chief storage place for weapons and ammunition.

It ...

Unionists Within the Confederacy

Sevier County Home Guard

When the Civil War began, Sevier County Unionists at first operated quietly in secessionist Tennessee. In 1861, they set up a secret garment factory in the second floor of this mill and made cloth for uniforms. They ...

Mt. Lassen/The Noble Pass/The Park Highway

Mt. Lassen

10,451 feet

This tablet marks the route of those early pioneers who, in 1852, first went over

The Noble Pass

Linking the Humboldt – Nevada Road with Shasta and Northern California, and their road is followed at this locality by

The Park Highway

Dedicated ...

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 ...