The Hollywood Sign

High above the bright lights of a city full of stars, there is a Los Angeles landmark with a conflicted and tragic history.

Originally reading 'Hollywoodland,' Harry Chandler built the Hollywood Sign in 1923 as an advertisement for a real ...

Battle of Santa Rosa Island

In the early morning hours of October 9th, 1861, 1,200 confederate soldiers made their way across Pensacola Bay intent on capturing Union held Fort Pickens on the Western tip of Santa Rosa Island. This attack marked a culmination of tensions ...

Boulder City, NV

Boulder City, located 23 miles from Las Vegas, boasts a history far different from its nearby neighbor. Historically, the city banned drinking, gambling, and prostitution. Today alcohol is allowed.

The United States Government established Boulder City as a construction town ...

National Historic Landmark - Hoover Dam

Towering 726 feet above the Colorado River, the Hoover Dam is an engineering marvel. Its namesake, President Herbert Hoover, described the dam as "the greatest engineering work of its character ever attempted by the hand of man."

First conceived in the ...

Death Valley National Park

Death Valley, located within the Mojave Desert, boasts the distinction of being the lowest and hottest spot in the United States. From the Panamint and Armargosa mountain ranges, Death Valley descends to its lowest point, 282 feet below sea level, ...

Sedan Crater

Between 1952 and 1992, the United States tested nearly 1,000 nuclear devices in the desert less than 100 miles from the Las Vegas strip. Referred to as the Nevada Test Site, the area's isolation fit the needs for testing America's ...

Cumbres and Toltec Narrow Gauge Scenic Railroad

The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, which runs from Chama, New Mexico, to Antonito, Colorado, is one of the few remaining narrow gauge railroads in the United States. Built in the early 1880s by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, ...

Coal-fired Plant, Page, AZ

Located on the Navajo Indian Reservation near Page, Arizona, the Navajo Generating Station began the production of electricity in 1974 for the regions of Arizona, Nevada, and California.

Fueled by coal from the Peabody Western Coal Company's Kayenta Mine in ...

Desert View Watchtower

Although easily mistaken for an ancient Native American structure, the Watchtower at Desert View overlook on the edge of the Grand Canyon's south rim is a twentieth century creation constructed as a reminder of the Canyon's first native residents.

In 1932, ...

Dorothy's House

The Seward County Historical Society was founded in 1961. Seward County pioneer descendants Robert W. Baughman, Fred Hill, Lewis Eyman and Oliver Brown realized the importance of preserving the history of the area and were fearful that since so many ...