Fort Saco in 1693 / Le Fort Saco en 1693

The Museum in the Streets

The Indians burned the township of Saco in 1688. Fort Saco was built on the future site of the Laconia Mills to protect the settlers in 1693. The fort served as stables during the construction of ...

Glass Mountains or Gloss Mountains

In February 1873 the name Glass Mountains appeared on a map issued by the Federal General Land Office. Two years later the same office issued another map calling them the Gloss Mountains. Thus precipitating a conflict that continues to this ...

Government Springs

A Camping Place

on the

Old Chisholm Trail

Before and After 1865

Through the path finders die

the paths remain open

Marker is on South 5th Street 0.1 miles south of East Oklahoma Avenue, on the left when traveling south.

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The Chisholm Trail

1865 – 1893

Here passed the Old Cattle Trail, blazed by Jesse Chisholm, which finally stretched for eight hundred miles from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas over which cowboys from the pasture-lands of the great southwest drove their herds to ...

The Missouri Compromise

(36° 30' North Latitude)

This marker sits on the Missouri Compromise line which by an Act of Congress on March 6, 1820, enabled Missouri to be admitted to the Union as a Slave State. But, the Act forbade slavery in the ...

Ponca City Library

Ponca City had been in existence for 11 years. She had schools, churches and even an opera house, but not a library. A group of women from the Twentieth Century Club decided to remedy this and convinced H.C.R. Brodboll to ...

A Building Stood Here Before 1680

A building stood here before 1680. It was wrecked in the Great Indian Uprising. This house incorporates what remains.

Marker is on East Palace Avenue west of Cathedral Place, on the right when traveling west.

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“Thirteen Original Colonies Bicentennial Covered Wagon Train”

Front

The state of Pennsylvania authorized the “Thirteen Original Colonies Bicentennial Covered Wagon Train” as an official Bicentennial project. It was one of five such trains that traveled across the country to reach Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, for the 1976 July ...

Captain Diego Arias de Quiros

In 1697 this property was granted to Captain Diego Arias de Quiros by Spanish royal decree for his part in the reconquest of New Mexico with De Vargas. In 1879 bought by L. Bradford Prince, later Territorial Governor. In 1942 ...

Union County Revolutionary War

In honor of the soldiers of Union County South Carolina who fought in the Revolutionary War.

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street and N Herndon, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.

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