Smiths Ferry

Oil boom town in 1860s-1870s. Oil shipped here on trains and river boats from wells in the Upper Dry Run and Island Run oilfields. Town had a hotel store post office and train station. All gone today. Rockport School remains. ...

Site of Roadsend Gardens

Home of Spencer Heath (1876-1963), inventory of variable pitch airplane propeller, noted engineer, lawyer, author, and horticulturist.

Marker is on Montgomery Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Congregational Church

Vermont Congregationalists organized a church in Sylvan Township in 1849. In 1852 the built the first church in the village, here on land donated by Chelsea founder Elisha Congdon. When that building burned in 1894, John Foster of Chelsea built ...

Battle of Monguagon

On August 9, 1812, a force of about 600 American troops, regulars and militia, moved down the River Road in an attempt to reach Frenchtown (Monroe) and bring back supplies needed desperately by the Americans in Detroit. At a point ...

Federal Right Wing to Peachtree Creek

July 18, 1864. The 14th A.C., which was posted on extreme rt. of the Cumberland Army, left camp at Mt. Paran Rd., crossed Nancy´s Creek & moved S. on Howell Mill Rd. to Peachtree Cr. Mitchell´s brigade of Davis´ div. ...

Site of Simon Kenton's First Log Cabin Home in Ohio

Site of Simon Kenton's

first log cabin home

in Ohio - Built beside

the old war trail over

which he was led into

captivity - Scene of

his killing the last

Indian slain in combat

in Clark County

Marker can be reached from Urbana Road (Ohio Route 72) north ...

Rutherford World War II Memorial

To honor

the men and women of

Rutherford

who served in

World War II

- and -

to remember

the seventy-eight men

who gave their lives

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Dedicated by the

Rutherford Service Organization

- 1946 -

Marker is at the intersection of Park Avenue and Donaldson Avenue, on the right when ...

First Pinchot Road

To "get the farmer out of the mud" was the road from here to Rossville. Gov. Gifford Pinchot broke ground here, July 23, 1931, to inaugurate the rural road improvement program of the Pennsylvania Department of Highways under the Act ...

Federal Right Wing

The rt. wing of the Army of the Cumberland, 14th and 20th A.C., was also the rt. of Sherman´s forces moving on Atlanta from N. & E.

The 14th and 20th, having crossed the river at Pace´s Fy., July 27, 1864, ...

John Rutherfurd

1760 1961

In honor of

John Rutherfurd

1760 – 1840

U.S. Senator from N.J.

1791 – 1798

American patriot and statesman

for whom this borough was named.

Part of his estate, Edgerston Manor,

so named after the family seat in

Scotland, lay within the present

Borough of Rutherford.

Erected by

the people of ...