Carson Park Baseball Stadium

Historic Building

The Carson Park Baseball Stadium is a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project constructed in 1936-37. The stadium was built at a cost of $60,000. The sandstone used for the stadium was quarried at Downsville, WI about 25 miles from ...

Fort Lee Road

Fort Lee Road (Main Street) was the main roadway to General Washington’s Headquarters in Hackensack. Supplies and men were in constant movement on the road to re-supply Fort Washington in New York. The Continental Army began it’s “Retreat to Victory” ...

The Soldiers Friend

Ruel C. Gridley

Born Jan. 23, 1829

Died Nov. 24, 1870

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Erected by

RAWLINS POST No. 23

Grand Army of the Republic

and the Citizens of Stockton

Sept. 19, 1887 in gratitude

for services rendered Union

Soldiers during the War of

the Rebellion in collecting

275,000 dollars for the

Sanitary Commission by

selling ...

Todd House

Home of Mary Todd Lincoln from 1832 to 1839. To this house in after years she brought Abraham Lincoln and their children.

Marker can be reached from West Main Street (U.S. 421).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fanny Dickenson Scott Johnson

In this valley in June 1785, Fanny Dickenson Scott's husband, Archibald Scott, their four children and a young male member of the nearby Ball family were killed by members of four different Indian tribes. The rest of the Ball family ...

Death of Boone's Son

In this valley, on 10 Oct. 1773, Delaware, Shawnee, and Cherokee Indians killed Daniel Boone's eldest son, James, and five others in their group of eight settlers en route to Kentucky. Separated from Daniel Boone's main party, the men had ...

Doctor's Office

Until modern medicine, contagious diseases afflicted both young and old and many died at a young age.

In 1875, there were fifteen physicians in Kern County, which had a widely scattered population of approximately 2,700 people. These fifteen doctors and the ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Water Does the Work!

A powerful man-made jet of water blasted the mountainside…

…washing soil and loose rock downslope to fill in the trestle.

By 1911, the Milwaukee Road filled twenty-two temporary wooden trestles between St. Regis, Montana and Avery, Idaho. On this side of the ...

Route of the Hiawatha- Man’s Mark on the Land

If you stood on this spot with a railroad surveyor in 1906, you would have gazed across a lush patchwork forest of large trees. The super hot 1910 fires burned the valley below and for years afterward the area presented ...

Forrest's Murfreesboro Raid

July 10, 1862

Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest's brigade, having left Chattanooga July 9, bivouacked here enroute to his capture of Murfreesboro. The Brigade then consisted of the 8th Texas Cavalry (Wharton), 2nd Georgis Cavalry (Lawton), and Woodard's Kentucky Cavalry Battalion. The ...