Safford City Hall

1898

Safford City Hall started life as a school building. Safford School System bids for the North Ward School were opened in February 1898. The contract was awarded to R. A. Smith Jr. and John Morris. The new building was ready ...

Bonner Shaft of the Gould & Curry Mine

Comstock Historical Marker No. 13

The Bonner shaft was named in honor of mine superintendent, Charles S. Bonner and began operations in the mid-1860s to explore the lower levels of the Gould & Curry Mine. This four compartment shaft reached ...

Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins

In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1938 that, in cases between citizens of different states, federal courts must apply state common law, not federal "general common law." Under Pennsylvania common law, Harry Tompkins of Hughestown lost ...

The Dungeon

A stop on the underground

railroad bringing slaves

to freedom

1862 - 1864

commemorated 1976

Vevay, Indiana

This memorial placed in honor of the

descendants of the Rayls and Pickett

families in the Bicentennial year 1976.

Marker is on West Main ...

Old Revolutionary Cannon

Mounted by

Toms River Camera Club

1908

Marker is on Washington Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Troup-Clark Political Feud

In the street near this site in June 1807, occurred the horse-whipping of Superior Court Judge Charles Tait by his political enemy John Clark, later Governor of Georgia. Clark was fined $2,000 for the assault. The incident illustrates Georgia politics ...

82nd New York Infantry

2nd New York State Militia

(Front):82nd New York Infantry

(2nd N.Y.S.M.)

1st Brigade 2nd Division 2nd Corps

July 2nd and 3rd 1863.

Casualties

Killed 45 Wounded 132 missing 15

(Left):

On the evening of July 2nd, moved to the Emmitsburg Road to protect flank of Third Corps. Fought ...

Ancient Rocks Boundary

The mountains toward the east are limestone reef beds deposited in the Cretaceous and Permian seas about 135 million years ago and 250 million years ago; respectively. The limestone reefs overlie deformed rocks in the Ouachita Fold Belt, which is ...

Stacy Esplanade

Stacy Esplanade

Is the Result of a Wish Conceived By

His Parents and Fulfilled by Their Son

George O. Stacy

Keenly Alive to the Beauty Of

Gloucester Harbor

He Desired to Bring to Its Shores A

Corresponding Beauty

This Tablet is a Loving Tribute

From His Friends Of

The Hawthorne ...

Mela Leger-Bilingual Education Pioneer

(1928-2006)

Side A:

At four, Manuelita de Atocha (Mela) Lucero Leger read Spanish language newspapers to her blind grandfather in Colonias. Although New Mexico's constitution protects Spanish-speaking students, school children were often punished for speaking Spanish. As a pioneer in bilingual education, ...