Fuente de los Caños de San Francisco

The set of masks that decorate this fountain was a gift to the City of St. Augustine by its sister city in Spain, the City of Avilés, birthplace of Pedro Menéndez, founder of St. Augustine in 1565.

Presented in 2005 ...

Solitude

Solitude House Museum

Patriots imprisoned loyalist Pennsylvania Governor John Penn and Crown Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Chew here during the Revolutionary War. They named the place “Solitude.”

Marker is on River Road.

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Last Confederate Bivouac

A Confederate force under General Bradley T. Johnson camped here July 31, 1864, after raiding and burning Chambersburg. They were the last Confederates to camp on Pennsylvania soil.

Marker is at the intersection of Great Cove Road (U.S. 522) and Confederate ...

Last Confederate Bivouac

General Bradley T. Johnson

of the

Confederate Army

encamped 20 rods west

of this marker at

the Patterson home

July 31, 1864

after the burning of

Chambersburg

This was the last

Confederate bivouac

north of the

Mason and Dixon line.

Dedicated by

the Pittsburgh Chapter

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Anderson Trading Post

On this property in 1812 was the trading post of John Anderson, famed Scottish pioneer of the River Raisin.

Anderson, Colonel of the Militia in 1812, was taken prisoner at Detroit, later escaped.

Mrs. Anderson, alone at the time of ...

Minnehaha Depot

Milwaukee Road station agents affectionately referred to the quaint little Minnehaha Depot as "the Princess." Its delicate gingerbread architecture is reminiscent of the Victorian era when ladies in bustles and gentlemen in high collars traveled largely by train.

The first track ...

Murder of Captain Hart

Captain Nathaniel G. T. Hart, brother-in-law of Henry Clay and inspector general of American Army of the Northwest under Harrison, was killed here during the massacre of the River Raisin January 22 - 23, 1813.

Captain Hart, wounded in battle, ...

A Bloody Contest

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

Any officer or soldiers who flies before the enemy-shall suffer death.

With these harsh words, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson marched his soldiers 52 miles from the Coosa River to Horseshoe Bend and a bloody contest with the ...

Alexis de Tocqueville

The 25 year-old French aristocrat

and author of

Democracy in America

visited this area

during his 1831-1832 tour of America

Tocqueville

C-SPAN

Placed by C-SPAN and the Cable Television Industry

while retracing the tour in 1997-1998

Marker can be reached from State Street.

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Etienne Veniard - Sieur de Bourgemont

Etienne Veniard - Sieur de Bourgemont

(front of marker in English)

Starting about 1680, the pressure of French traders moving up the Missouri from the Illinois country coincided with the commercial void created by the Pueblo Indian revolt in New ...