The Martin Building

This seven-story commercial building was constructed in 1917 by businessmen M. D. Roberts and William Martin Banner, for whom it was named. Designed by the architectural firm of Brauhton and Leibert, it features Chicago style detailing in the use of ...

Stephen Tyng Mather

July 4, 1867 - Jan. 22, 1930

He laid the foundation of the National Park Service defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to ...

The Observatory Mound

The form of this mound is unique among all the known Hopewellian mounds. Some 19th century archaeologists thought that the builders had planned to extend a set of parallel walls from the circle, bu thene changed their minds and blocked ...

Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Oak

Born October 27th, 1858 • Died January 6th, 1919

This tree (a Scarlett Oak) was placed here by the Roosevelt National Living Memorial Association, as a living tribute to the great lover and defender of Country and Flag, and our youngest ...

The City of El Paso / Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Before you stands

The City of El Paso

in the valley of the Rio Grande

and across is

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

To the far right is the river's southern exit

through the famed Pass of the North from which

El Paso takes its name.

This is historic ground. ...

Site of Lutheran Teacher’s Seminary

1864-1913

This monument, made from window sills and steps from the seminary, was erected in 1974 by grateful alumni.

The seminary was relocated in 1913 to River Forest, Illinois, and is now named Concordia College.

Matt 28:19 – Go ye and teach all ...

Mount Cristo Rey/ The Gadsden Purchase/ El Paso Smelting Works

Mount Cristo Rey

High above the point where the states of Texas, New Mexico and Chihuahua intersect stands an impressive monument at the summit of Sierra de Cristo Rey, portraying Christ on the cross. The dream of the small parish of ...

Riot on the Cosumnes

Approximately four miles further up the Cosumnes River, on July 12, 1851, Jared Sheldon, a former employee of John Sutter and holder of the original Mexican land grant, Rancho Omochumnes, was confronted by a large party of miners whose claims ...

Cemetery of the Columbia Hebrew Benevolent Society

In this cemetery, 2½ blocks south, on Gadsden Street, are buried many distinguished Jewish citizens, including two mayors of Columbia: Mordecai Hendricks DeLeon (1791-1849) and Henry Lyons (1805-1858). The Benevolent Society was organized in 1822: charted 1834.

Marker is at the ...

Winchester's Camp No. 3/Fort Starvation / The Old Kentucky Buria

[Front Text] : "Winchester's Camp No. 3/Fort Starvation"

Camp No. 3 was located about six miles below Fort Winchester on the north side of the Maumee River. Militiamen from Kentucky, part of the forces led by War of 1812 Brig. Gen. ...