The Old Portage Rail Road Monument

(side 1)

This Monument

Was erected to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the opening of

The Old Portage Rail Road

March 18, 1834

A scale model of one of the inclined planes is in the Blair County Historical Museum, Altoona, PA.

This monument and the model ...

The Hollywood Reporter

The first entertainment trade paper

founded in Hollywood, California

September 3, 1930

Marker is on Hollywood Boulevard west of North Orange Drive, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Port of Leavenworth

1854 to 1875

In 1854 the river was the freeway of commerce, and every stable landing was a natural stop. The Missouri bends in at the Leavenworth area, and the current runs along a natural limestone bluff for some miles. A ...

The Deercreek Frontier / Williamsport and Deercreek Township

The Deercreek Frontier

In 1772-73 missionary David Jones visited Blue Jacket's Town, a settlement of 12 cabins downstream on the east bank and Pickaweekee, a Shawnee town, on the west bank. Deercreek Methodist Circuit Deacon, Dr. Edward Tiffin, met settlers after ...

Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal

1394 – 1460.

His explorations and scientific accomplishments dispelled the legend of the tenebrous sea, beaconed the ocean route to India and opened the gateway of the Atlantic to the American continent.

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This monument in his honor marks the eighth centennial of ...

Portaging Around the Falls

For untold generations of Indian people the Mississippi River was an important canoe route. To pass around the falls, the Dakota (Sioux) and Ojibway (Chippewa) used a well-established portage trail. Starting at a landing below the site now occupied by ...

The Bill Pate Portal

One half mile to the west of this plaque, the gap in South Mountain, the Appalachian Trail footbridge, and I-70 symbolically form the Bill Pate Portal to the Appalachian region—a region where a people and their governments joined in a ...

The Pony Express - Sportsman’s Hall

California’s only Home Station where riders changed on the Pony Express trail. Here, at 8:01 A.M. on April 4, 1860, Sam Hamilton, first eastbound rider, was relieved by Warren Upson who carried the initial mail over the then storm swept ...