Zephaniah Phillips' Homestead Site

Rancho de Juaquin

In 1783, while updating Gulf Coast navigational charts, Jose Antonio de Evia (b. 1740), a Spanish naval officer, visited a Spanish fishing camp located on this site. He called it “Rancho de Juaquin.” Artifacts from the 18th ...

Site of Pensacola - St Augustine Road

Begun by a military detachment from Pensacola in 1824, the first federal highway in Florida was designed to connect the two principal cities of the new territory. Construction was later contracted to John Bellamy, wealthy Jefferson County planter, and the ...

A Landmark of Distinction

Cottonwood Falls has been the Chase county seat since both town and county were established in 1859. The first log cabin-courthouse was replaced in 1873 by this stately building of native limestone and walnut, which today is the oldest Kansas ...

Caldwell and the Chisholm Trail

A mile southeast of this marker the Chisholm Trail entered Kansas. It took its name from Jesse Chisholm, Indian trader, whose route lay between the North Canadian river and present Wichita. In 1867 it was extended from the Red river ...

Curious Outbuildings

Stephen F. Jones spared no expense in the construction of his Spring Hill Ranch outbuildings.

The Flint Hills provided the main building materials for both the house and outbuildings - high quality limestone quarried and hand cut here in Chase County.

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Anderson Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Anderson Presbyterian

Church Cemetery

Founded 1837

Land Given by

Judge J.N. Whitner

Used as the First

Public Burial Ground

For the Village

Marker can be reached from West Whitner Street (State Highway 24).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Build It And They Will Come

Battleground to Community

In 1818 the Private Rockville and Washington Turnpike Co. began building a road to link Washington City to Rockville, Maryland. This road helped create a village. A toll gate on what today is Georgia Avenue between Quackenbos ...

Westview Cemetery World War Memorial

In Memory of World War Casualties

War No. I

Thomas Adjer

Scott Hill

Ollie Rutledge

War No. II

James Joyner

Johnnie M. Leroy

Frank Lewis

John M. McBride

Mayor

Richard A. Shirley

City Manager

John R. Moore, Jr.

Public Works Director

M. Anthony Norris

City Council Members

Beatrice R. Thompson

Thomas W. Dunaway III

James A. Stewart

Dennis H. McKee

Blake ...

Whitefish Depot

Historical Walking Tour of Whitefish, Montana

Built by the Great Northern Railway in 1927, the Whitefish Depot is not only a local landmark but is recognized fondly by hundred of thousands of people who have passed through Whitefish by train over ...

Confederate Dead & Hospitals

Here sleep 67 known and 8 unknown Confederate heroes, men who died of disease and wounds in the several Confederate hospitals located here. Many of those who died were reburied elsewhere.

In 1862, 1863, 1864, the Hill, Hood, Lumpkin, and ...