SOUTHERN PACIFIC R.R. DEPOT FIRST LOCATED HERE APRIL 28, 1876 BY CENTRAL PACIFIC R.R. FIRST PASSENGER TRAIN PASSED THROUGH ON SEPTEMBER 25, 1877 WITH LELAND STANFORD ABOARD. HISTORIC MARKER NO. VI...
BORLAND HOME THIS VICTORIAN COTTAGE WAS THE HOME or THE ROBERT BORLAND FAMILY. BUILT IN 1890 BY DR JOHN S. MOORE, D.D.S., AND ORIGINALLY USED AS BIS DENTAL OFFICE, THE PROPERTY WAS INHERITED BY...
MARTINEZ MEMORIAL BUILDING A MEMORIAL TO THE 76 SERVICEMEN WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR ONE. COMMISSIONED BY COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IN 1923 ON FORMER S. BLUM BARN PROPERTY. NOW COMMEMORATES THE...
In Recognition of ALICE GRAU (1935 – 2015) Alice Grau was a woman who believed passionately in protecting the environment. In 1992, Alice founded the Kent- Harrison Green Legacy Society to...
This is one of a series of plaques situated in the "waterloopbos". This place was used as a big open- air laboratory with (large) scale models to study waves and water movements in harbours...
On this site between August 1941 and August 1945, the City Park Plant of Higgins Industries, Incorporated mass produced more than 12,000 landing craft and approximately 200 PT boats for the Allied...
CAMP ANDERSON One of three Civil War training camps in La Porte County. Site is one fourth mile west. Named for Colonel Edward Anderson. Used 1863- 1864 to train Indiana Union volunteers of the...
ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT A GRANDSON OF NOAH GRANT WHO WAS BORN AT TOLLAND. CONNECTICUT AND SERVED IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION. HE WAS A DIRECT DESCENDANT FROM MATTHEW GRANT, ONE OF THE FIRST...
On this day in 1942, at 7:00 PM, during one of President Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats, the Japanese submarine I-17 shelled this Richfield Oil Field site with 25 5-inch rounds. Not since the War...