The Big Sandy River

Long before the Oregon/California westward migration, animals instinctively stopped at the Big Sandy River during their migration process. With South Pass just 35 miles east, the river was also a natural East-West pathway for man. The pathway, in combination with ...

The DeGress Battery

July 22, 1864. Light Battery H, 1st Ill. (four 20-pounders), Capth. Francis DeGress, was posted here on right of M.L.Smith’s div., Logan’s 15th A.C. Shells from these guns are said to have been the first to fall in Atlanta.

Late afternoon, ...

Governor Jonas Galusha Homestead

Jonas Galusha, born in Norwich, CT in 1753, moved his family to Shaftsbury in 1775. During the Revolutionary War he served with Seth Warner's Green Mountain Boys and was at the Battle of Hubbardton and a Captain during the Battle ...

Shifting Ground

During most of the Civil War (1861-1865), Charles City County lay between two armies: the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia safeguarding the Confederate capital of Richmond and the Union Army of the Potomac occupying the Lower Peninsula. As a result, ...

Federal Signal Station

July 22, 1864. When 15th A.C. troops moved W. from line (at Candler St.) to the vacated Confederate line at the Troup Hurt house (at DeGress Ave.), a signal station was established by Lt. Samuel Edge in a tall pine ...

To the Brave Men Who Rode the Pony Express

1860 -- 1861

The site of

Big Sandy Station

Gift of Andrew Arnott

To the State of

Wyoming

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 191 and Wyoming Route 28 on U.S. 191.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Here Albert Einstein Played the Violin

{Marker text in Czech:}

V tomto dom? „U Jedworožce,“ v salonu Berty Fantové, v letech 1911 až 1912 hrával na housle a setnával se zde s p??teli, spisovateli Maxem Brodem a Franzem Kafkou, Profesor Teureticke Fyziky na Pražk? Univerzit?, tv?rce Teurie ...

Ballard Avenue Historic District / Ballard City Hall Bell

Multiple markers on and near the Ballard Centennial Bell identify the Ballard Avenue Historic District.

Marker 1:

Be it remembered that at this place on the eleventh day of April, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Six, the Ballard Avenue Landmark District ...

Historic Viduta / Hotel Monte Sano

(Front):Historic Viduta

"Viduta"-derived from Spanish "vida" meaning "life"

In a time when yellow fever, malaria, and cholera threatened, Dr. Thomas Fearn and his brothers Robert and George were drawn by the cool air and medicinal springs to establish a small colony on ...

Burial Ground of the Fond du Lac Band

Here was the burial ground of

The Fond du Lac Band

of the Chippewa People

dating from the 17th century.

It was removed in 1918 to

St. Francis Cemetery Superior.

Stone from Interstate Bridge

Marker can be reached from Wisconsin Point Road 3.1 miles north of ...