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A County Older Than the State, Baldwin County Marker (reverse) image, Touch for more information
By Mark Hilton, August 22, 2018
A County Older Than the State, Baldwin County Marker (reverse)
GEOGRAPHIC SORT WITH USA FIRST
1Alabama (Baldwin County), Bay Minette — A County Older Than the State, Baldwin County
2Alabama (Baldwin County), Gulf Shores — Indian Village Achuse
3Alabama (Baldwin County), Magnolia Springs — The Springs
4Alabama (Baldwin County), Spanish Fort — Bay of the Holy Spirit
5Alabama (Baldwin County), Spanish Fort — Caisson Trace
6Alabama (Baldwin County), Spanish Fort — Spanish Fort
7Alabama (Butler County), Greenville — Bartram's Trail
8Alabama (Calhoun County), Oxford — The "Shattering" of the Mississippian World — AD 1540 to AD 1730 — Choccolocco Park Interpretive Trail —
9Alabama (Cherokee County), Cedar Bluff — Indian Village of Costa
10Alabama (Choctaw County), Gilbertown — First Oil Well In Alabama
11Alabama (Cleburne County), Muscadine — Hernando de Soto in Alabama
12Alabama (Colbert County), Muscle Shoals — Explore the River
13Alabama (Dallas County), Cahaba — Alabama's Native Prairie
14Alabama (Elmore County), Wetumpka — Bartram's Trail
15Alabama (Elmore County), Wetumpka — William Bartram Arboretum — 1739 - 1823
16Alabama (Houston County), Columbia — Omussee Creek Mound and the Ancestors of the Creeks — Creek Heritage Trail —
17Alabama (Houston County), Cottonwood — Southern Boundary of the United States — 1795-1819
18Alabama (Lee County), Smiths Station — Line 32° 28΄ North Latitude
19Alabama (Limestone County), Ardmore — Hernando De Soto in Alabama — De Soto Trail
20Alabama (Lowndes County), Tyler — Talisi visited by De Soto — Sept. 18, 1540
21Alabama (Macon County), Tuskegee — Bartram's Trail
22Alabama (Madison County), Huntsville — Armstrong • Collins • Aldrin — Launched: July 16, 1969 • Landed: July 20, 1969 • Splashdown: July 24, 1969 — "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." —
23Alabama (Madison County), Huntsville — Cernan • Evans • Schmitt — Launched: December 7, 1972 • Landed: December 11, 1972 • Splashdown: December 19, 1972 — "...America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow." —
24Alabama (Madison County), Huntsville — Conrad • Gordon • Bean — Launched: November 14, 1969 • Landed: November 19, 1969 • Splashdown: November 24, 1969 — "I see the Surveyor! I see the Surveyor!" —
25Alabama (Madison County), Huntsville — External Tank — Liquid Propellent Supply for Space Shuttle Main Engines
26Alabama (Madison County), Huntsville — Lovell • Swigert • Haise — Launched: April 11, 1970 • Splashdown: April 17, 1970 — "Okay Houston, Hey, We've got a problem here..." —
27Alabama (Madison County), Huntsville — McDivitt • Scott • Schweickart / Stafford • Young • Cernan — Launched: March 3, 1969 • Splashdown: March 13,1969 — Launched: May 18, 1969 • Splashdown: May 26, 1969 —
28Alabama (Madison County), Huntsville — Ms. Baker: Monkeynaut
29Alabama (Madison County), Huntsville — Saturn V
30Alabama (Madison County), Huntsville — Schirra • Eisele • Cunningham / Borman • Lovell • Anders — Launched: October 11, 1968 • Splashdown: October 22, 1968 — Launched: December 21, 1968 • Splashdown: December 27, 1968 —
31Alabama (Madison County), Huntsville — Scott • Worden • Irwin — Launched: July 26, 1971 • Landed: July 30, 1971 • Splashdown: August 7, 1971 — "It's really rolling hills, up and down we go, buckin' bronco!" —
32Alabama (Madison County), Huntsville — Shepard • Roosa • Mitchell — Launched: January 31, 1971 • Landed: February 5, 1971 • Splashdown: February 9, 1971 — "...It's been a long way, but we're here." —
33Alabama (Madison County), Huntsville — U.S. Army/NASA Juno II
34Alabama (Madison County), Huntsville — Young • Mattingly • Duke — Launched: April 16, 1972 • Landed: April 20, 1972 • Splashdown: April 27, 1972 — "Look at the size of that rock!" —
35Alabama (Mobile County), Grand Bay — William Bartram Trail — Traced 1773-1777 — Deep South Region —
36Alabama (Mobile County), Le Moyne — Ellicott's Stone — Erected April 9th, 1799
37Alabama (Mobile County), Mobile — Crown & Scepter of Isabel
38Alabama (Mobile County), Mobile — Hernando de Soto — C 1500-1542
39Alabama (Mobile County), Mobile — Isabel La Catolica — 1451-1504
40Alabama (Mobile County), Mobile — Our Spanish Heritage
41Alabama (Mobile County), Mobile — Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
42Alabama (Mobile County), Mobile — Tristan de Luna y Arellano — 1519–1573
43Alabama (Montgomery County), Maxwell Air Force Base — Site of Indian Town Tawasa — 1540-1814
44Alabama (Montgomery County), Montgomery — Alabama River: The Grand Avenue
45Alabama (Montgomery County), Montgomery — Struggle For Colonial Empire
46Alabama (Pickens County), Aliceville — George Downer Field — Aliceville, Alabama — Dedicated Nov. 7, 1961 —
47Alabama (Russell County), Fort Mitchell — Archaeology And Our Understanding of the Creek People — Creek Heritage Trail —
48Alabama (Russell County), Phenix City — The Creek Town of Coweta — Creek Heritage Trail —
49Alabama (St. Clair County), Pell City — None — A County Older Than The State — St. Clair County
50Alabama (Sumter County), York — Line 32° 28΄ North Latitude
51Alabama (Talladega County), Childersburg — Coosa
52Alabama (Talladega County), Childersburg — De Soto's Visit
53Alabama (Talladega County), Childersburg — History Of Childersburg
54Alabama (Talladega County), Childersburg — The De Soto Trail — Alabama De Soto Trail — Chief Coosa And His Dominion —
55Alabama (Washington County), Chatom — Washington County — First County in Alabama
56Alaska, Anchorage — Captain James Cook — R.N., F.R.S. — Navigator, Explorer, Chartmaker, Scientist, Humanist / 1728 – 1779 —
57Alaska, Anchorage — Resolution Park 1776 / 1778
58Alaska (Fairbanks North Star Borough), Fairbanks — Alaska's Gold Rush Era
59Alaska (Fairbanks North Star Borough), Fairbanks — Tanana Valley Gold
60Alaska (Juneau Borough), Juneau — Wagner Mine
61Alaska (Sitka Borough), Sitka — 250th Anniversary of the Bering- Chirikov Expedition — 1741-1991
62Alaska, Skagway — Skagway Centennial Statue — 1897
63Arizona (Apache County), Lupton — One Days Ride to Zuni
64Arizona (Cochise County), Bisbee — Discovery of Ore
65Arizona (Cochise County), Bowie — Parke Camp Site
66Arizona (Cochise County), Hereford — The Coronado Expedition, 1540-42
67Arizona (Coconino County), Flagstaff — Beale Road — Historic Site
68Arizona (Coconino County), Flagstaff — Henry Lee Giclas — December 10, 1910 - April 2, 2007
69Arizona (Coconino County), Flagstaff — Lowell Observatory — National Historic Landmark
70Arizona (Coconino County), Flagstaff — The Lawrence Lowell Telescope
71Arizona (Coconino County), Fredonia — 29 — Pipe Springs National Monument
72Arizona (Coconino County), Fredonia — Prickly Pears and Pinion Nuts — Dominguez y Escalante Expedition 1776-1976
73Arizona (Coconino County), Grand Canyon National Park — Bright Angel Trail
74Arizona (Coconino County), Grand Canyon National Park — Colonel Claude Hale Birdseye — 1878-1941 — Explorer • Geographer • Surveyor —
75Arizona (Coconino County), Grand Canyon National Park — Early Explorer
76Arizona (Coconino County), Grand Canyon National Park — Kolb Studio — Grand Canyon National Park
77Arizona (Coconino County), Grand Canyon National Park — Mining on Horseshoe Mesa
78Arizona (Coconino County), Grand Canyon National Park — The Best Section
79Arizona (Coconino County), Grand Canyon Village — Spanish Discovery
80Arizona (Coconino County), Marble Canyon — Dominguez y Escalante Expedition — 1776 - 1976 — Treacherous Descent —
81Arizona (Coconino County), Marble Canyon — Impossible Canyons — Dominguez y Escalante Expedition 1776-1976
82Arizona (Coconino County), Page — Crossing of the Fathers — Dominguez y Escalante Expedition 1776-1976
83Arizona (Coconino County), Page — Emma Dean
84Arizona (Coconino County), Page — Major John Wesley Powell — 1834-1902
85Arizona (Coconino County), Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument — "The Peaks"
86Arizona (Coconino County), Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument — Geological Infant
87Arizona (Coconino County), Walnut Canyon National Monument — A Time of Change
88Arizona (Coconino County), Williams — Bill Williams Mountain — Elevation 9,264 Ft
89Arizona (Coconino County), Williams — William Sherley Williams — Sculpture by B.R. Pettit
90Arizona (Graham County), Safford — The Gila Valley
91Arizona (Greenlee County), Clifton — San Francisco River
92Arizona (La Paz County), Quartzsite — Hi Jolly
93Arizona (La Paz County), Quartzsite — The Last Camp of Hi Jolly — Camel Driver, Packer, Scout
94Arizona (Maricopa County), Phoenix — Jacob Waltz
95Arizona (Maricopa County), Sentinel — Oatman Massacre Site
96Arizona (Mohave County), Fredonia — A Good Drink of Water — Pipe Spring National Monument —
97Arizona (Mohave County), Fredonia — Powell’s Surveyors at Pipe Spring — Pipe Spring National Monument —
98Arizona (Mohave County), Grand Canyon National Park — Separation Canyon
99Arizona (Mohave County), Littlefield — 121 — The Old Spanish Trail — 1829 - 1848
100Arizona (Mohave County), Wikieup — Big Sandy Valley

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