Quartermaster Depot Water Reservoir

A steam pump located at the edge of the river propelled muddy Colorado River water through pipes to an elevated holding tank constructed of local rock and mortar with a wood shingle roof to decrease evaporation. Sediment fell to the ...

Office of the U. S. Army Depot Quartermaster

This adobe building was constructed in 1872 as an office for the Fort Yuma Quartermaster Depot. It replaced a room in a corner of the depot storehouses where, according to Captain J. G. C. Lee, Quartermaster, ". . .the noise ...

Commanding Officer's Quarters & Kitchen

In 1859, steamboat entrepreneur George Alonzo Johnson built a riverside home for his bride, Estefana Alvarado. Now known as the Commanding Officer's Quarters, the home is believed to be Arizona's oldest Anglo-built adobe building. In the devastating Colorado River flood ...

Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show

Fort Worth Stock Yards Company publicist Charles C. French and local cattleman Charles C. McFarland organized the first livestock show in north Fort Worth in 1896. Members of the Texas Cattle Raisers Association (TCRA) participated in the initial show. The ...

Painter Park World War II Memorial

World War II

Dedicated To

The Valiant Men And

Women Who Gloriously

Served Our Country

In The Armed Forces

Of The United States

Of America

Let us never forget

their sacrifice

[ plaque on north side ]

To Our Honored Brothers, United In Death,

We Dedicate This Tribute

World War ...

Tuscaloosa Second State Capital

1826-1846

This stone commemorates the City of Tuscaloosa as the second state capital, January 1826 to January 1846.

Erected by the Alabama Centennial Commission and the Citizens of Tuscaloosa, and dedicated December 14, 1919. On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary ...

“The Indian Fires Are Going Out”

The Trail of Tears led thousands of Creek Indians through Tuscaloosa, capital of Alabama in 1836. Chief Eufaula addressed the legislature with these words:

"I come here, brothers, to see the great house of Alabama and the men who make laws ...

Stamford Veterans Memorial

[ central pedestal ]

Lest We Forget

Within this pedestal is placed a time

capsule recording for all time

those residents of Stamford who responded

to the call, some giving their lives

while serving in our past wars.

In future wars should we be

called again, the people ...

The M & O Railroad Trestle

This wooden and steel truss bridge was constructed for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad in 1898 by civil engineer Benjamin Hardaway, and 1887 graduate of The University of Alabama and former Tuscaloosa City Engineer. Originally 135-feet high with a 110-foot ...

Copp’s Hill and the American Revolution

In the 18th century, Copp’s Hill was higher than it stands today. On April 23, 1775, just a few days after the battles of Lexington and Concord, British Admiral Samuel Graves received General Gage’s permission to construct a redoubt on ...