Confederate Dead

Here are buried 51 unknown and one known Confederate soldier and one Negro hospital attendant. These men died of wounds or disease in the Confederate hospitals located nearby, the Stout, Blackie, Asylum, Turnbull, and some temporary ones. These hospitals operated ...

The Victoria Centennial Fountain

Activated 2 August 1968 by Hon. W.A.C. Bennett, L.E.D.. Premier.

British Columbia was formed from four British Colonies and territories:

The Crown Colony of Vancouver Island 1845

The Dependency of the Queen Charlotte Islands 1852

The Crown Colony of British Columbia 1856

The ...

Auburn University Chapel

Side A:

The University Chapel is the oldest public building in the city of Auburn. Built as a Presbyterian Church, the first service was held in the original Greek Revival-style building on September 13, 1851. Edwin Reese, spiritual leader of the ...

Auburn - Alabama

Settled by Judge J. J. Harper and others

from Harris County, Georgia, in 1836.

This region was opened to settlement

in 1836-37 by the removal of the

Creek Indians to lands west

of the Mississippi River.

Erected by

The Alabama Officers Club

Daughters of the American Revolution

March ...

Thomas McCarty

1827 – 1886

Pioneer Settler & Rancher

of Calaveras Co.

Discoverer of copper ore

at Copperopolis, Calif. In

1860. Developed mine & was

principal share owner,

Town was named for the

Copper ore. It was a boom

town during the Civil

War. Copper was used in

making of war implements.

Marker can ...

"Torch Hill"

On the summit of the rise to the east is the site of "Torch Hill", home of Dr. Francis Orray Ticknor (1822-1874), author of the famed war story, "Little Giffen of Tennessee". Dr. Ticknor was a physician at the Confederate ...

Ocracoke Lighthouse

Oldest N. C. lighthouse

still in service. Erected

1823 to serve Ocracoke

Inlet trade. 75 ft. tall.

Located 4/10 mile S. W.

Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 12 and Lighthouse Road on State Highway 12.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Nerstrand City Hall

Nerstrand City Hall

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

1908

Marker is on Main Street (State Highway 246) west of Cherry Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

In Honor Of John McBride Belnap

Second son and child of Gilbert Belnap and Adaline Knight, Mormon Pioneers, who was born 11 May 1849 in Fremont county, Iowa. He departed for Utah with his parents and his older brother Gilbert Rosel Belnap, age 3, on 15 ...

Church of the Immaculate Conception

State of California Point of Historical Interest: Yub-12

Erected 1850, the original structure was destroyed by fire in 1870, and rebuilt in 1871 by the citizens of Smartsville on the original foundation. At one time this church served 800 parishioners, mostly ...