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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZOB_american-legion-post-551-veterans-memorial_St-Michael-PA.html
In honor of allVeterans, POW, MIAwho served inthe great warsand conflicts
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZO2_penn-eben-hotel_Ebensburg-PA.html
The three-story red brick Penn-Eben Hotel was the finest example of a "salesman" hotel within the Borough of Ebensburg. With the introduction of the automobile and improved highways, Ebensburg gradually became a point of passage rather than a fina…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZN5_johns-street-bridge_Johnstown-PA.html
Between 1927 and 1999 a 135-foot single-span concrete-encased riveted steel polygonal-chord Pratt pony truss bridge crossed the Little Conemaugh River at this location. First proposed in Henry Hornbostel's 1917 "Comprehensive Plan of Johnstown" th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZN4_pennsylvania-railroad-stone-bridge_Johnstown-PA.html
On May 31, 1889, The main main [sic] thrust of the 30-foot wave from the broken South Fork Dam smashed into the hillside to your left, sparing the PRR stone bridge from its full impact. The bridge held, its arches clogged with debris. The raging w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZN1_flood-prevention_Johnstown-PA.html
To commemorateFlood Preventionfrom these riversDedicated to theFlood Correspondents Associationof the Flood of 1889on the fifty-first anniversaryMay 31, 1940
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZN0_a-success-story_Johnstown-PA.html
The concrete river channels before you are part of the Pittsburgh District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's [sic], Johnstown Local Flood Protection Project (JLFPP). It is the longest paved channelization project in Pennsylvania and one of the larges…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZMC_robert-e-peary_Cresson-PA.html
This monument was placed in honor of the Arctic explorer, discoverer of the North Pole April 6, 1909. Peary was born in Cresson, May 6, 1856, the family moving to Maine in 1859.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZMB_loretto_Cresson-PA.html
This village, 3.5 miles northwest of here, was founded 1799 by Prince Gallitzin as a Catholic colony. The site of the priest -missioner's grave is here. Charles Schwab, steel king, had his home in Loretto, and is buried here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZMA_cambria-county_Ebensburg-PA.html
Formed March 26, 1804 out of Huntingdon and Somerset counties. Its name, dating from Roman Britain, means "Wales." County seat, Ebensburg, was incorporated 1825. Famed Portage Railroad extended west to Johnstown. Birthplace of Rear Admiral Robert …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZM9_admiral-peary-park_Cresson-PA.html
Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary was born near Cresson on May 6, 1856. This Park and monument commemorate his birth and achievements.