Wall of Honor

Veterans of All Wars

[North Marker]: 2008 Plaque

[North Marker]: 2009 Plaque

[North Marker]: 2010 Plaque

[North Marker]: 2011 Plaque

[East Marker]: 2012 Plaque

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and North Depot Street, on the right when traveling east on Main Street.

Courtesy ...

Bicentennial Celebration / La Bajada

This is a two sided marker

Side A:

Bicentennial Celebration

This facility was built by the New Mexico State Highway Department to commemorate the

bicentennial birthday of the United States. Located 15 miles south of the plaza in Santa Fe, the nation's oldest capital ...

Memorial Park / The Scroll of Honor

[North Entrance]:

Clemson University

Memorial Park

This park honors Clemson University's

legacy of service.

It is a tribute to those who have served,

to those who are serving,

and to those who will serve.

[South Entrance]:

The Scroll of Honor

At Clemson University

This special place has been set aside to

honor ...

Ed Ricketts’s Backyard

Historic Cannery Row

You are looking at the backyard of Ed Ricketts’s lab, Pacific Biological Laboratories, where Ricketts lived and worked during the 1930 and 1940s. He collected and preserved tide pool plants and animals and sold them to schools around ...

One Man, Two Worlds

Historic Cannery Row

Doc, the legend

John Steinbeck used his close friend and collaborator, Edward Ricketts, as a model for the famous fictional character Doc. In the novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, set in the 1930s and 1940s, the kindly Doc ...

The Real “Docs”

Historic Cannery Row

Pictured at the right are scientists Frances Clark, W.I. Scofield, Richard Croker, M.J. Linar and J.B. Philips. Working out of Hopkins Marine Station, this group monitored the growing sardine industry by collecting samples from the canneries and keeping ...

Jimmy Swaggart's "Date"

On this date, Oct 11, 1991,

Reverend Jimmy Swaggart

picked up a "Date" at

Clark's Travel Center.

Marker is on Indio Boulevard, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Newberry Springs

The history of Newberry Springs can be traced back more than 20,000 years. Digs at the Early Man Site north of here discovered tools dating prior to 20,000 BC. At that time, much of the land was covered by the ...

The Architecture of Defense

The nation's Third System forts, including Fort Knox, all shared similar design features. These features combined to guard against attack by ships, make it impossible for the fort to be taken quickly, [and] provide protection from a land-based, long-term siege.

To ...

A Question of Boundaries

The United States planned Fort Knox to prevent another attempt by the English to control Maine lands east of the Penobscot, as they had successfully done in the American Revolution and War of 1812.

Fort Knox's construction had not yet begun ...