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The Goldsmith Building

Built in 1907 as

The Crane Building

Is part of the Pioneer Square Historic District

Which was entered in the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on 2nd Avenue South, on ...

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The White Chapel District

 

The White Chapel District:

In the depression of 1893 there stood on opposite corners of Washington Street and Third Avenue, at the foot of “profanity hill,” what was referred to as the most financially solvent institution in Seattle: The ...

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First Marine Division – FMF

Dedicated

To those men of the

First Marine Division – FMF

Who gave their lives

in the service of

their County

World War II, Korea, Vietnam

Southwest Asia

Marker can be reached from West McCabe Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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First Transcontinental Railroad

Western Base of the Sierra Nevada

On January 12, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln decreed that where the Central Pacific Railroad crossed Arden Creek the western base of the Sierra Nevada began. The hardships of railroad construction through mountains resulted in increased ...

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A Pointed Defense

On the attack, this would be your perspective: advancing uphill, passing through sharp obstructions, only to face artillery and supporting infantry mounted in the redan. Brigade huts would be across the road, just behind the defenses.

These fortifications must have impressed ...

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Carter G. Woodson

1875 - 1950

Three miles east is the birthplace of the noted teacher, educator and historian, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. He was the founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Journal of Negro History, originated negro ...

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Confederate Arms Factory

The Searcy & Moore gun factory was located 1 mile west on the waters of Hogans Creek. Owned by Alexander M. Searcy and Dr. J. S. Moore, the firm manufactured approximately 100 rifles for the State of North Carolina in ...

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In Memory of Harold and Ethelind Woodhouse

who carved this farm out of the desert. We, the Wellton-Mohawk Valley Kiwanis Club, dedicate this spot. Here on May 1, 1952 Michael W. Straus, United States Commissioner of Reclamation turned the first water on to lands of the Wellton-Mohawk ...

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The Bloody Rock

On the night of July 3, 1778, after the Battle of Wyoming, fourteen or more captive American soldiers were murdered here by a maul wielded by a revengeful Indian woman, traditionally but not certainly identified as "Queen Esther."

Marker is on ...

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The Camp’s Road System

Adapting to the terrain, the arriving army used peaceful farm roads as lines of communication within the sprawling encampment. Livestock, commissary wagons, and troops dragging firewood quickly turned roads into rivers of mud. After Sullivan’s Bridge was completed, this road ...

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