Cartier Building

Landmarks of New York

Designed by Robert W. Gibson as the residence of Morton F. Plant, this building was constructed in 1904. Messrs. Cartier acquired it in 1917 and after modification by William Welles Bosworth, it was occupied by the firm ...

Third Armored Field Artillery Battalion

Dedicated to the Third Armored Field Artillery Battalion whose members fought with valor and distinction in the Rhineland, Ardennes and Central Europe campaigns of World War II receiving a Presidential Unit Citation for sustained artillery fire, repulsing an entire German ...

First Girl Scout Headquarters in America

The house adjacent to this building was the home of Juliette Gordon Low at the time she founded Girl Scouting in the United States, March 12, 1912. Formerly the carriage-house and stable of the Low mansion, this building became that ...

Trade Partners Along the Hudson

First Inhabitants

Mahican Indians, known today as Mohicans by the Mohican Nation, were Algonquian-speaking people who inhabited this spot as early as the 1400s. Mahicans gathered here, at Schaghticoke, Cohoes, and at DeLaets and Schodack Islands long before Henry Hudson claimed ...

200th Anniversary of Albany Charter

Tablet commemorating the

Two Hundredth Anniversary

of

Albany

As a chartered city

Settled about 1624:

Charter Granted by Gov. Dongan:

July 22 1606:

State Legislature Held Here Permanently Since 1797:

Early Names Of The City:

Fort Orange: Beverwyck: Wilemstadt:

First City Hall Erected Near Fort Orange About 1686. Second One ...

Rock Art at Hot Springs

When J.O. Langford homesteaded this section in 1909, he was moving into an area that had long been inhabited by native Americans. Walk this trail to view pictograph and petroglyphs created by prehistoric people hundreds or even thousands of years ...

Sherman at Harris’ Quarters

On Nov. 18, 1864, Hq. Military Division of the Mississippi [US], Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, were established here at “Harris´ Quarters,” the overseer’s house and negro cabins of a large plantation owned by Judge John Harris of Covington. Gen. Sherman ...

Elkhart County Honor Roll

[[ Center Plaque ]]

This Memorial Dedicated by

The Citizens of Elkhart County

to perpetuate the memory of our

Valiant Citizens who sacrificed

their lives for God and Country

and Honoring those who served

in our Armed Forces

* * * World ...

Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences

Open to the Public ~~~

Created under the Will of Miss Mary Telfair (c. 1789-1875), the Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences opened as the first public art museum in the Southeast with a preliminary private showing February 12, 1885.

Chatham Artillery

"Washington Guns"

These bronze cannon were presented to the Chatham Artillery by President Washington after his visit to Savannah in 1791. Of English and French make, respectively, they are excellent examples of the art of ordnance manufacture in the 18th century.

An ...