Old Railroad Tunnel

“The Iron Trail” by Rex Beach describes these events and this area.

This tunnel was hand cut into the solid rock of Keystone Canyon and is all that is left of the “railroad era” when nine companies fought to take advantage ...

Historic Lake Islands

Samuel de Champlain

These islands were first seen by a European in 1609, when Samuel de Champlain explored the Lake which bears his name and claimed them for the King of France. Ceded in 1763 to Britain, they became part of ...

Formal Southern Landscapes

Like Madison's high-style architecture, its formal landscapes were Southern translations of both prevalent trends and earlier traditions. Boxwood gardens were an antebellum landscape feature gracing many Madison homes. Parterres were a garden form developed in Renaissance France and originally inspired ...

Gold Discoveries Trigger Stampede

Prospectors found gold in 1895 under the present Canyon Creek Highway Bridge and on Mills Creek. Those discoveries launched a rush to Turnagain Arm more than a year before the Klondike Gold Rush.

Prospectors Poke Around

After gold was discovered near Hope ...

Welcome to Coldfoot Camp

This Sign Greeted New Arrivals As They Arrived At The Pipeline Construction Camp Located One Mile West Of Here. We Salvaged This Sign When The Camp Was Being Dismantled.

You are about 55 miles north of the Arctic Circle on the ...

Isaac Dutton Barnard

(1791 - 1834)

Side One:

Major Isaac Barnard

Born March 22, 1791

Died February 18, 1834

Side Two:

Senator of Pennsylvania, 1820:

Sec’y of The Commonwealth, 1826:

Senator of The U. States, 1827.

Side Three:

This Memorial

in Honor of ...

Felipe Valerio Store and Garage

(1.5 mi. southeast)

Built in 1905 by Felipe Valerio (1878-1953) and his wife Jesusa (1886-1973), the Valerio store was an integral part of the small community of La Rosita. Located approximately halfway between San Diego and Freer, the store provided groceries ...

U. S. Post Office Department

Ariel Rios Federal Building

Inscription above the frieze, center, west side entablature:

The Post Office Department, in its ceaseless labors, pervades every channel of commerce and every theatre of human enterprise, and while visiting, as it does kindly every fireside, ...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Place

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

Senator

Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture and the proposal for the redevelopment of Pennsylvania Avenue, which President John F. Kennedy proclaimed on May 23, 1962.

He served in ...

Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed

Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, MD 1857

1833 – 1900

Physician

Son of John and Vashti Duplex Creed

Graduate of the New Haven Lancasterian School

First African American Graduate of Yale

First African American to earn an MD from an Ivy League Medical School

1st Lieutenant and Surgeon ...