Indian Trail

Keyserkill to Catskill Creek

and Hudson River, connecting

Hudson, Schoharie, Mohawk,

Delaware and Susquehanna

valleys and the west.

Marker is at the intersection of New York Route 30 and Clauverwie Road (County Route 18), on the right when traveling ...

Walter C. Worman and George Larson

In memory of

Walter C. Worman

Sheriff

and

George Larson

Under-Sheriff

who lost their lives

accidentally by drowning

in the Missouri River

November 7, 1943

Marker is on Walnut Street near Main Street, on the right when traveling east.

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First Shipboard Landing

On 18 January 1911, EUGENE ELY flew a Curtis Pusher biplane from this location, Tanforan Park, and landed on a wooden platform constructed aboard the Navy Cruiser USS Pennsylvania anchored in the San Francisco Bay. The first shipboard landing, an ...

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument was established in 1907 by Theodore Roosevelt to protect the prehistoric material culture of the Mogollon people and others who inhabited this area. The first scientific description of a pueblo ruin on the upper Gila ...

New Madrid Earthquake

The greatest earthquake recorded in North America centered in this area Dec. 16, 1811 to Feb. 7, 1812. 1,874 quakes felt at Louisville, 250 miles away. Tremors also felt at Boston, Detroit, New Orleans. Reelfoot Lake, covering 25,000 acres, formed ...

Downtown Pine Apple

Front:

The Town of Pine Apple was settled by 1816, originally named Friendship in the 1820s and later designated Pine Apple by the United States Post Office in 1851. Pine Apple was incorporated on February 24, 1872. The following commercial ventures ...

Pesthouse and Cemetery / Pestilences

1866 / "Prior to 20th Century"

Side 1

Following an outbreak of the dreaded plaque, smallpox (Variola), at Florence during the winter of 1865-66, the Board of Alderman adopted a resolution on January 2, 1866, that a Pesthouse be “erected at the ...

Eugene E. Stone III Soccer Stadium

Named in honor of Eugene E. Stone III, distinguished chairman of Stone Manufacturing Company, prominent leader in the Greenville community and generous friend of Furman University and its soccer program.

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Pine Apple Historic District

Pine Apple, Alabama

Founded in 1825, the town of Pine Apple became a regional commercial center due to its strategic location as the end of the Selma to Pensacola Railroad line from 1871 to the 1890s. The progressive spirit of Pine ...

McComas Incident

In March 1883, Judge and Mrs. H.C. McComas were killed in this vicinity by a group of Chiricahua Apaches led by Chatto. An extensive manhunt failed to rescue their six-year-old son, who had been taken captive. This incident was part ...