Raymond

(Wild Cat Station)

The San Joaquin Valley and Yosemite Railroad was incorporated on February 15, 1886 by the Southern Pacific Company. The 21 miletrack ran between Berenda and Raymond. At this location, a turntable allowed the locomotive to be turned around ...

Mills - Emerson House

1806

Built By Michael F. Mills

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Later the Home Of

Rev. Ralph Emerson

Second Pastor of The Church

1816 – 1829

Marker is at the intersection of Greenwoods Road West (U.S. 44) and Maple Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Greenwoods Road West.

Courtesy ...

Chesterfield Court House

Soldiers and Refugees

Late on the morning of Monday, April 3, 1865, part of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia briefly halted here at the Chesterfield County seat. The day before, a series of Federal attacks had broken ...

Madera to Yosemite Stage Route

Est 1879

Switching from the iron horse to the horse drawn stage after a night at Madera's Yosemite Hotel, which still stands across the street from this monument, at 6 A. M. the tourists would load up in open stages to ...

Forbes Road

Raystown Path

Just east of here is the junction of the two branches of the Raystown Path: a mountain shortcut by way of Fannettsburg, and Gen. Forbes road through Cowan Gap. From here Forbes route is marked by towns named for ...

Vrooman's Battery

La Batterie Vrooman

Manned by Captain Samuel Hatt's 5th Lincoln (Militia) Regiment and a small party of the Lincoln Militia Artillery under Lieutenant John Ball, and consisting of one 24-pounder cannon mounted within a crescent-shaped earthwork, this Battery was engaged in ...

The Boulevard

[City of Charleston Motto Emblem: Aedes Mores Juraque Curat]

(She Guards Her Buildings, Customs, and Laws)

To Commemorate

The reclamation of 47 acres of mud flats, marsh and water, bounded on the north by Tradd Street and on the ...

Camden Friends Meeting

Burial Place of John Hunn This house of worship, built in 1805, was first a Preparative Meeting under the care of Motherkiln (Murderkill) Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). In 1830, Camden Monthly Meeting was formed by ...

Lincoln Slept Here

[ Upper Section ]

When Abraham Lincoln rode into Pontiac that rainy day, he found few cabins, and those were so scattered and hidden among the clumps of bushes that they were rendered almost invisible. Lincoln stayed overnight in a log ...

Morning Star Institutional Church of God in Christ, Inc.

In 1856, the trustees of Whatcoat Methodist Episcopal Church purchased this site from Thomas Mifflin. The present church was erected thereafter and dedicated on July 26, 1857. Extensive renovations of the structure were undertaken in 1865 and 1940. The building ...