Prelude to Gettysburg

One of the great debates of our Country's history and legacy is what scholars call "the two Civil Wars": the first a matter of campaigns, generals, and troop movements and the second focusing on the ways that the great conflict ...

First United Methodist Church

1883

The First United Methodist Church was established August 1, 1880. It was the first church organized in the new settlement of DeLand. Three years later, this building was completed for worship services. It was a simple frame structure with a ...

Frazee Homestead

Circa 1750

“Frazee Homestead”

British General Cornwallis stopped to ask for bread during the battle of Short Hills, June 26, 1777, and was marked by Betty Frazee’s famous statement “I give you this in fear, not in love.”

Marker is on Raritan Road ...

World's Largest Chain of Lakes

Dedication

The Eagle River-Three Lakes Chain of 28 Lakes is the largest inland Chain of Lakes in the World. The 28-Lake Chain has over 174 miles of shoreline. It spans from 5 miles southeast of the Town of Three Lakes to ...

The Bond House

Frank Bond (1863-1945), prominent Española merchant, came from Cañada in 1882. In 1887 Bond married May Anna Caffal of Pueblo, Colorado and built the home. The house grew from a two-room adobe to this large structure. Acquired by the city ...

The Confederate Invasion of Iowa Monument

Site of

The Confederate Invasion of Iowa

12th Day of October 1864.

This monument marks the northern most point of incursion into Iowa by Confederate Forces. On October 12, 1864, Lieutenant James “Bill” Jackson led twelve heavily armed Missouri Partisan Rangers dressed in ...

Pablita Velarde, Tse Tsan, Golden Dawn

(1918-2006)

Pablita Velarde was an internationally acclaimed artist whose paintings largely depicted Pueblo life. She was commissioned by the WPA art's program to paint murals at Bandelier National Monument. Selected as one of New Mexico's "Living Treasures", she received many awards, ...

Death Valley Scotty

Native of Cynthiana. Walter E. Scott (Death Valley Scotty), gold prospector, whose fabulous tales of Death Valley, Calif., lost gold mines fooled investors. Stories supported by $3,000,000 castle in desert provided by millionaire of Chicago, who "got it all back ...

Site of the Blue Hills Fort and Camp

This marker is erected in memory of the brave Revolutionary soldiers from this vicinity who garrisoned this fort harassing and repulsing the invading enemy for seven months during the darkest period of the war.

From this outpost General Washington on June ...

The Crooked Road / Speers Ferry

(Left Side)The Crooked Road

Virginia's Heritage Music TrailFrom the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Coalfields region, southwest Virginia is blessed with historic and contemporary music venues, musicians, and fretted instrument makers. Historically isolated, the region retained its strong musical legacy by ...