James Wellborn

1767-1854

Served 27 years as state senator; colonel in War of 1812; delegate to the Constitutional Convention 1835. Grave is 1/5 mi. N.

Marker is at the intersection of River Street (Route 268) and Stokes Street, on the right when traveling west ...

Smoky Hills Region

This region of Kansas contains the Smoky Hills, an area of rolling hills, occasional mesas, and buttes, with striking outcroppings. Pawnee Rock, Coronado Heights, and Rock City are notable Dakota sandstone formations in this region. The Smoky Hills Region features ...

Original Gas Street Light

1964

This is one of the original gas street lights of the town of West End.

Presented to the West End Business Men’s Association by the family of Jesse M. Manry and placed on the grounds of the Wren’s ...

Fort Zarah

In 1825 the Federal government surveyed the Santa Fe trail, great trade route from western Missouri to Santa Fe. Treaties with Kansas and Osage Indians safeguarded the eastern end of the road but Plains Tribes continued to make raids. Fort ...

Butler Short Line

Richland Historical Marker

Butler Short Line electric street car passed this spot as it ran between Pittsburgh and Butler carrying passengers and freight from May 1st, 1907 until April 22nd, 1931.

Marker is at the intersection of Gibsonia Road (Pennsylvania Route 910) ...

U.S. Army Signal Corps Building

This building served as the communications center for Fort Clark from 1932-1944. The building is of tile brick construction with a veneer of irregular cut field stone. The original footprint was enlarged c. 1940 to accommodate barracks for enlisted soldiers. ...

The Wren’s Nest

Home of Joel Chandler Harris

Creator of the Uncle Remus stories and exponent of the New South, Joel Chandler Harris was born December 9, 1848 in Eatonton. After serving an apprenticeship on a plantation newspaper The Countryman near Eatonton and working ...

James B. Gordon

Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. Mortally wounded near Richmond, Virginia, May 12, 1864. Birthplace stands 300 yards north.

Marker is at the intersection of West D Street (Business U.S. 421) and Boone Trail, on the left on West D ...

Oldest Commercial Building in Chippewa Falls

The building to your right is the oldest commercial building in Chippewa Falls. It was built (Circa 1859) by Peter Morie (Morey) and was used originally as a Saloon and Boarding House for lumberjacks and others. In 1861 at the ...

The Charles Carroll House

Birthplace of Charles Carroll of Carrollton (September 19, 1737 – November 14, 1832), the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence and the last of the signers to die.

Charles Carroll of Annapolis (1702 – 1782), father of Charles ...