Scarborough Bluffs

The layers of sand and clay exposed in these cliffs display a remarkable geological record of the last stages of the Great Ice Age. Unique in North America, they have attracted worldwide scientific interest. The first 46 metres of sediments ...

Fort Mississauga Trail

Sentier du fort Mississauga

Explore a part of our heritage - visit a fort almost 200 years old and discover part of the Lake Ontario shoreline.

Explorez un volet de notre patrimoine - visitez un fort qui a presque 200 ans d'histoire ...

Historical Survey Marker

The beginning of

the Third

Principal Meridian

is located in the Ohio River

1,735 feet

directly north

of this point.

In November, 1803,

this was the mouth

of the Ohio River.

At this location,

the Lewis and Clark

Corps of Discovery

encamped for

six days.

Marker is on Washington Avenue (U.S. 60/62), on the right ...

Old Coal Pit Railroad Bed

This railroad bed carried coal from the Deep Run and Springfield Coal Pits, two miles to the northeast of here, during the nineteenth century. The line ran south for about six miles to the now abandoned Kanawha Canal on the ...

Pony Express Home Station No. 1

1859

This barn, a Pony Express Station of 1860-61, stands on the original site. Here courageous Pony Express Riders changed mounts as they carried the Overland Mail through 1966 miles of territory, now eight states.

Russell, Majors, Waddell

Founders, Owners, Operators

Pony Express

Entered on ...

James Chamberlain Jones

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Popularly known as “Lean Jimmy,” lived here. First native Tennessean to become Governor, he defeated James K. Polk in 1841 and 1843. In 1850, became President of Memphis & Charleston RR. Served as U.S. Senator from 1851 to 1853. He ...

Tommy Edwards

1922-1969

Born Thomas Jefferson Edwards here in Henrico County on 15 Oct. 1922, African American singer-songwriter Tommy Edwards composed songs recorded by well-known performers Tony Bennett, Red Foley, Tony Fontane, and

Louis Jordan. He recorded for Top and National Records before joining ...

Lewis & Clark

Corps of Discovery

Charting the Confluence

On November 14, 1803, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, the Corps of Discovery stayed for six days, one of the longest stops made by the expedition. Here, they saw the ...

Von Steinwehr Monument

[Front Side of Monument]:

To the New York Troops in Howard's Tenth Corps of Hooker's Command, 11th and 12th Corps, Army of the Potomac, at Wauhatchie, October 28 - 29, 1863.

Steinwehr's Division.

134th N.Y. Infantry, Buschbeck's Brigade

154th N.Y. Infantry, Buschbeck's Brigade

136th N.Y. ...

Oliver Hazard Perry

At the age of twenty seven years

he achieved

the Victory of Lake Erie

September 10, 1816

[ Right of Monument : ]

Born in South Kingstown, R.I.

August 23, 1785

Died at Port Spain, Trinidad

August 23, 1819

Aged 34 years

[ Back of Monument : ]

His remains

were conveyed ...