Stream for Washing Laundry

Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York

STREAM FOR WASHING LAUNDRY

Location: Maiden Lane

Dutch Name: ‘t Maagde Paatje

Here, in the 1600’s, a stream ran into the East River, along the course of what is now Maiden Lane. A footpath ...

The Start of Something Big

This is where Eastport's famed boat building industry began. On this site in 1868, a German immigrant named Wilhelm Heller began crafting fine wooden boats. His reputation spread and business flourished. Heller's became the largest boatyard on Spa Creek serving ...

Historic Kenmore and George Washington's Ferry Farm

George Washington Birthplace National Monument

(Front):

Historic Kenmore and George Washington's Ferry

For George Washington, Fredericksburg was "...the place of my growing infancy." The old town on the Rappahannock River remained his home until he moved permanently to Mt. Vernon after the death ...

North Carolinians at the Battle of Bentonville

In memory

of the

North Carolinians

who

fought and died

in the

Battle of Bentonville

March 19-21, 1865

Marker is at the intersection of Mill Creek Church Road and Harper House Road, on the left when traveling north on Mill Creek Church Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

In Memory of Col. Raynal C. Bolling

[Panel No. 1]:

"Whatever happens to me will be the result of action, not inaction or drift."

                                              ...

George Washington: Surveyor and Family Man

(Front):

George Washington: Surveyor

George Washington loved mathematics, a passion he put to work when he learned to survey land, a useful trade in colonial America. At the age of 15, his first surveying job was to map his brother's turnip field. ...

Confederate Laboratory

Brown’s Island was the site of the Confederate Laboratory, a major powder-loading and cartridge-producing plant during the Civil War.

During the Civil War, the hazardous work of loading powder was carried out here on Brown’s Island because of its separation from ...

Trail Campground..To Farm..To Park

In 1857, Newton Ainsworth claimed this land and allowed the trail travelers to continue camping here. A decade later, the railroads began to make their way west and the great overland trails became a part of history. The need for ...

The Army of Tennessee

They are all gone now with their

tattered flags and their faded uniforms.

Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Ezra Church, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville, Averasboro, Bentonville and finally to Greensborough.

[ Right of Monument: ]On ...

The Old Farmhouse

This century-old farmhouse is one of the only reminders of the agrarian past of Eastport. Yet, in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, horse racing and farming were the economic mainstays. As late as 1798, there were only two buildings ...