First Summit

Below this ridge is what some pioneers dubbed the “Devils Ladder.” A name reflecting the steepness and extreme difficulty that pioneers experienced as they began their ascent over the Sierra Nevada. This climb was usually referred to as the “first ...

“You can fool all the people part of the time . . .”

Lincoln Speech, July 27, 1858

“You can fool all the people part of the time and part of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time.”

Spoken in an address in Clinton July 27, ...

Barnwell Baptist Church Cemetary

Sometimes called the Red Hill Cemetary

Original Site of Barnwell First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is the Oldest Continual

Institution in Barnwell Established in 1502

Both the 1850 building and the 1926 building

stood on this site.

Earlier Church Buildings were located nearby

the ...

19 State Street

Frederick Wolfe House

This two-and-a-half story Charleston Single House is thought to be built by Frederick Wolfe after the fire of 1796, which destroyed much of the State Street ares between Broad and Queen Streets. The house was moved back on ...

Class of 1943 Veterans

This garden is dedicated to the men of the Class of 1943, with special remembrance to those who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the armed forces.

Marker is on Cahoun Drive, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The First Telegram

“What Hath God Wrought”

The first telegram “What Hath God Wrought” was sent from the Capitol in Washington to Baltimore May 24, 1844 over wires laid along the right of way of the B&O Railroad adjacent to this highway. The telegraph ...

White Bird

The battle of White Bird Canyon, which was the first battle in the war between the Nez Perce Indians and the U.S. Army, took place on June 17, 1877. In 1855, the U.S. Government had signed a treaty with the ...

Plains of Jars

Lying along the landscape of the Xieng Khouang plateau lay the remains of thousands of megalithic jars. The arrangements of these jars consist from small clusters to hundreds surrounding the foothills and valleys of the central plain. Early archeologists believe ...

Canyon Ferry

Canyon Ferry Lake, Montana’s third largest body of water may look like a simple recreational lake at first glance, but there is more here than meets the eye.

In the late nineteenth century, the Helena Water and Electric Power Company built ...

Giant Springs

On June 1805, William Clark, while on a reconnaissance mission to mark a route for the portage around the Great Falls of the Missouri, came across “the largest fountain or Spring I ever Saw, and doubt if it is not ...