Seattle Electric Company Georgetown Steam Plant

The Seattle Electric Company's Georgetown Steam Plant exemplifies America's acceptance of, then reliance upon, electricity. After Thomas Edison introduced this new form of power in New York in 1882, electricity quickly moved from a simple curiosity to a "requirement" for ...

Old Georgetown City Hall

Originally settled in 1850 as a small, fertile farming community called Duwamish, the community of Georgetown provides insight to an interesting variation on the effects of early 20th-century social reform movements. Georgetown's saloon and brewery owners worried that the community's ...

Georgetown Commercial Buildings

Georgetown's commercial history began on the waterfront as a shipping center. Sprawled along the waterfront were warehouses and wharves, sailor's taverns, flour mills and a fleet of ships. Tobacco was the lifeblood of the new community, and in 1745, a ...

Georgetown Market

The Georgetown Market, located at 3276 M Street, between East and West Market Streets in Georgetown, was built in 1865 on the site of an earlier 1795 market, which was the first public market in Washington, DC. The one-story brick ...

Georgetown University

Georgetown University, founded in 1789, is the oldest Catholic University in America and since 1805 has been administered by the Society of Jesus. The first buildings were constructed around the "old quadrangle," including Healy Hall, constructed between 1877--1909 and designed ...

Georgetown Historic District

Georgetown was formally established in 1751 when the Maryland Assembly authorized a town on the Potomac River on 60 acres of land belonging to George Beall and George Gordon. George Town was named in honor of King George II and ...

Georgetown Blues

A Military Company Was Organized

At Georgetown In August 1859, Called

The Georgetown Blues

This Is In Honor Of Them, And

Dedicated To All United States

Veterans Who Have So Honorably

Answered Their Nation’s Call To Duty

America Thanks You!

Marker is on Wentworth Springs Road north of ...

Georgetown Community United Methodist Church

During the 1850’s the Methodists were the first to serve in the mining towns of El Dorado County. Some ministers traveled on horseback from one mining town to another with a Bible and a Colt Revolver. Known as Georgetown Methodist ...

Georgetown County National Guard Memorial

To our Guardsmen and Families of the 1 BN 178 FA: In appreciation for your sacrifices, bravery and loyalty during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2004~2005) From the Citizens of Georgetown County

Marker is on Main Street (South Carolina Route 521), on the ...

National Historic Landmark-GeorgetownSilverPlumeHistoricDistrict

The Georgetown-Silver Plume area flourished because of gold and silver production. The two communities have retained much of their mid-19th-century boom-town atmosphere.

Information provided by the National Registry of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service