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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM49C_the-bank-road_Clear-Spring-MD.html
The portion of this highway from the west end of the Conococheague bridge to Cumberland (40 miles) was built between 1816 and 1821. The banks of Maryland financed it by purchase of the stock.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM49B_all-servicemen-and-women_Las-Cruces-NM.html
In memory of:all Servicemen and Womenof the Armed Forceswho served their God and Country
Dedicated July 4, 1957by Ray McCorkle Post No. 3242Veterans of Foreign Wars
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM49A_plaza-de-mesilla_Las-Cruces-NM.html
Conservation made possible by grants fromUnited States Department of CommerceEconomic Development AdministrationNew MexicoAmerican Revolution Bicentennial Commissionand by matching funds from theTown of Mesillaand individual contributions1976~1977
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM499_butterfield-overland-trail_Las-Cruces-NM.html
Overland mail stage line,St. Louis to San Francisco1858-1861Forerunner to the Pony Express
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM498_la-mesilla_Las-Cruces-NM.html
After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which concluded the Mexican War in 1848, the Mexican government commissioned Cura Ram?n Ortiz to settle Mesilla. He brought families from New Mexico and from Paso del Norte (modern Ci?dad Ju?rez) to populate …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM497_battery-saxton_Beaufort-SC.html
(Front Text):Battery Saxton, constructed here in 1862, was in the second line of earthworks built by Federal troops occupying Beaufort during the Civil War. Laid out by the 1st New York Engineers with the assistance of black laborers, it held 3 8 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM496_inner-harbor-lofts_Baltimore-MD.html
This complex, once three separate structures built between 1886 and 1905, hosed a wide variety of industries. These included a shoe manufacturer, the nation's leading straw hat company, (M.S. Levy), one of the largest lithographers in the south, (…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM495_packhorse-ford_Sharpsburg-MD.html
A day after the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General Robert E. Lee retreated to the safety of the West Virginia (then Virginia) bluffs across the river from here. This was the only good crossing on the river for many miles upstream or downstrea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM494_baltimore-arts-tower_Baltimore-MD.html
Once known as the Bromo Seltzer Tower, this building is a monument to Captain Isaac Emerson, the imaginative chemist who developed a famous headache remedy, and named it after Mt. Bromo - an active volcano in Java.
Emerson came to Baltimore in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM493_mumma-farm-lane_Sharpsburg-MD.html
This portion of the historic Mumma Farm Lane looked much the same in 1862. Confederate soldiers burned the farm buildings to prevent their use by Federal sharpshooters. Only the white-washed stone springhouse (on the left) survived as does this sh…