Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site

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Rock ledge Ranch Historic Site is a living history museum that allows visitors to experience the lives of the people who dwelled, worked, hunted, herded and raised families here from the 1700s to the early 20th century. This beautiful landscape ...

Red Jacket

"Sa-go-ye-wat-ha"

Seneca Chief Red Jacket (ca. 1758-1830) lived in a cabin on this site when this area was part of the Buffalo Creek Reservation. Known for his great oratory and keen mind, Red Jacket was an eloquent advocate for the preservation ...

Bloomer Girl; A Colorado Trailblazer

In 1858, a young woman from Kansas climbed to the summit of Pikes Peak. Julia Archibald Holmes was the first Anglo woman on record to make the climb, and she became famous for that accomplishment as well as for the ...

Brandymore Castle

This landmark was first described in 1724 by surveyor Charles Broadwater as "the rock stones called Brandymore Castle." Research in 1972 established that the natural formation matched the boundary descriptions on the 18th century land grands from Lord Fairfax to ...

Presidio Wall & Pithouse

This marker locates the northeast corner of the adobe wall which surrounded the Royal Spanish Presidio San Agustin del Tucson. It is thought that a bastion, used as a lookout and as a defensive position, stood here. The site was ...

Red Jacket.

SA-GO-YA-WAT-HA

(He keeps them awake)

The orator of the Six Nations of Iroquois

A chief of the Wolf Clan of the Senecas

Born near this spot-died at Buffalo N.Y.

1750 1830

Marker is on New York Route 89 0.3 miles north of Cemetery Road, on ...

N. W. Corner Adobe Wall of Spanish Presidio of Tucson

N. W. Corner

Adobe Wall of Spanish

Presidio of Tucson

Marked 1926 by D.A.R.

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Avenue and West Washington Street, on the right when traveling north on North Main Avenue.

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Duels and the Bladensburg Dueling Grounds

The Bladensburg dueling grounds were the scene of at least 26 recorded duels during the nineteenth century. Although the location of these duels was considered part of the Bladensburg area when they were fought, today the dueling grounds lie within ...

Morris Island Lighthouse

Folly Beach, SC

As early as 1673, there is a record of a light burning at what was then known as Charles Towne colony. On May 30, 1767, the cornerstone for a new light was laid on a group of three ...

S. E. Corner Adobe Wall of Spanish Presidio of Tucson

This disc marks the southeast corner of the old adobe wall that protected Tucson from the Indians in the early days - prior to 1845

Moved to this location in 1955

Marker can be reached from North Church Avenue.

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