Navigation of the Colorado River

Because overland travel in early Texas was an enterprise often fraught with hardship, frustration, and danger, many individuals looked to rivers for a solution to the problem. From 1829 to the Civil War, optimistic Texans attempted to ply the area's ...

Site Selection / Architectural Features

Site Selection

In 1791, President George Washington (who was raised in Stafford County 10 miles south of this site at Ferry Farm) appointed three Commissioners to oversee construction of the new federal capital city (later named Washington, D.C.). The Commissioners sent ...

Hospital Care

Prior to 1905, physicians in the Upper Miami Valley took care of surgical procedures in their offices or in the case of emergencies or serious illness on the patient's own kitchen table. Under these circumstances, cleanliness was difficult to ...

Stage Lines Through Columbus

Nineteenth-century stagecoach operations in Texas were closely tied to mail delivery, and contracts with the U.S. Postal Service more often than not made the transportation of passengers and freight by stage economically feasible. As an early community on the transportation ...

Old Spanish Trail Zero Milestone

Old Spanish Trail Zero Milestone

St Augustine Fla to San Diego Calif

Marker is on San Marco Avenue 0.1 miles south of San Marco Avenue (State Route A1A), on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Claude L. Herbert

To

Claude L. Herbert

Who gave his Life to save

others in the

Havens & Geddes Fire

This Memorial is erected

by his Comrades of

The

Spanish American War

and Patriotic Citizens

Courtesy hmdb.org

Slave Cemetery

Known by this name for generations, it once was part of the Hopper family farm. Believed to have been a burial ground for slaves and freed blacks, there once were many stones, most without marks. In 1910, the surviving stones ...

Creation of the Province of British Columbia

Création de la Province de Columbie-Britannique

[English]

The province of British Columbia was created on July 20, 1871. Formerly a crown colony established by the union in 1866 of Vancouver Island with the mainland colony of British Columbia, the addition of the ...

Turpin's Chapel - Maple Grove United Methodist Church

Founded 1865 by Capt. John Turpin, CSA (NC)-POW

Non-denominational until 1885. Became Turpin's

Chapel MEC (South) 1885. Name changed to Maple

Grove MEC (South) 1912. Became Maple Grove Methodist Church 1949 and Maple Grove United Methodist Church 1968. Also the site of the ...

Old Oregon Trail

Front of Marker:

Monument Expedition

Camp One

29 Jan 1906

Left Side of Marker:

This stone is donated by

Gregory L. Meeker

Cousin to Ezra

In honor of Bobby and Helen Meeker who taught their son the love of family and community.

Also donated by Raymond L. Kanter and ...