William B. Layton Park

This park was named for and dedicated to the memory of William B. Layton by the North Lake Tahoe Historical Society.

North Lake Tahoe will miss the unselfish way the Bill worked for the community. Past General Manager of the Tahoe ...

Clara Barton

1862 - 1962

In Memory of Clara BartonFounder of the American Red Cross. A devoted nurse and tireless organizer who knew no enemy but the unfeeling heart. We walk the ways she took in easing the suffering at the Battle of ...

The 1923 Berkeley Fire

On the morning of September 17, 1923, a grass fire spread from Wildcat Canyon over the hills into Berkeley. Driven by hot, dry winds, the fire spread rapidly across the northeast residential districts of the city, burning as far south ...

Site of Barton House

Site of Barton House, a beautiful Georgian style structure built in 1785 by James Maury, whom George Washington appointed as the first American ambassador to England. Guests in the Barton House included such notables as General Robert E. Lee and ...

Battle Alley

This historic district was once the scene of frequent brawls. In 1880, an uproar between local rowdies and workers of a traveling circus rendered so many bruised, beaten, and jailed, that this street was thus named "Battle Alley." Carry A. ...

Hugh Hammond Bennett (1881-1960)

Hugh Hammond Bennett, “the father of soil conservation,” joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Soils in 1903. While conducting a soil survey of Louisa County in 1905, he came to understand the link between soil erosion and soil ...

Beaufort County, South Carolina

Colonial And Revolutionary Period

1711-1860

During the Colonial period the Beaufort district grew and prospered. Rice was produced for export on the mainland, indigo in the sea islands, shipbuilding flourished. The Parish System developed as the political basis and Beaufort competed with ...

New Hempstead Presbyterian Church

Founded 1734

New Hempstead Presbyterian

called the English Church

by Dutch Settlers. Rebuilt

1827. Washington’s troops

camped on this ground.

Marker is at the intersection of New Hempstead Road and Old Schoolhouse Road, on the right when traveling west on New Hempstead Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Major James Breathed

"Hardest artillery fighter the war produced"

Maj. James Breathed was born near present-day Berkeley Spring, W. Va., on December 15, 1838, and moved while young with his family to Washington Co., Md. He attended St. James School in Lydia, where his ...

The Battle of St. Croix Falls

Here at the head of St. Croix Falls in about 1770, a war party of Chippewas led by Chief Wau-bo-jeeg prepared for battle against their traditional enemies, the Fox and Sioux.

The two parties met on the portage below this ...