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Cohoes - Waterford Bridge

Designed and Built in 1932 by the

State of New York

Department of Public Works

Frederick Stuart Greene, Superintendent

T.F Farrell - Chief Engineer

H.O Scheermerhorn - Asst. Chief Engineer

R. B. Smith - Resident Eng

Bates and Rogers Construction Company

Contractors Chicago, Ill.

Marker is on Saratoga Street ...

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Bethel Chapel

1815 - 1873

William Holmes McGuffey, author of the Eclectic Series of Readers, was ordained a Presbyterian minister in a log meeting house on this site in 1829. The ordination was performed by Robert Bishop, President of Miami University, and other ...

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Site of Bellanca Airfield

An airfield, aircraft plant, and service hangar were built here in 1928 by Giuseppe Mario Bellanca and Henry B. duPont. An aviation pioneer, Bellanca immigrated from Italy in 1912. His plane Columbia was Charles Lindbergh's choice for a Trans-Atlantic crossing, ...

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Beaufort Female Benevolent Society

The Society, founded in 1814 to educate and provide relief for destitute children, built this

house in 1895 and leased it for many years, using the income to help the needy. Tenants included the Clover Club, which operated a circulating ...

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Liberty Hill Church / Pioneers in Desegregation

Liberty Hill ChurchIn 1867, five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Thomas and Margaret Briggs gave four acres of land to this African Methodist Episcopal church. The present building, completed in 1905, has been brick veneered. Meetings held here in the ...

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Buena Vista

Built in 1845 by John M. Clayton (1796-1856) Secretary of State in President Taylor's cabinet. He also served Delaware as U.S. Senator, jurist and Secretary of State. He drafted the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, which eventually guaranteed that the Panama Canal would ...

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Timbuctoo

5 Mile Marker

1855. Largest town in eastern Yuba County, and at height of its prosperity contained a church, theater, stores, hotels, and saloons. Old Wells Fargo Office and Stewart Bros.; Store restored, 1928, and dedicated to pioneer men and women ...

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Brave Men from the 97th Bombardment Wing

To honor the memory

of these brave men from

the 97th Bombardment Wing

at Blytheville Air Force Base

who did not return after their

B-52 aircraft was shot down

over Hanoi, North Vietnam in

December 1972

Col. Keith R. Heggen

Lt. Col. Donald L. Rissi

Major Bobby A. Kirby

Capt. Randall ...

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Joseph T. Bowen Country Club

From 1912 to 1962, Bowen Park was the site of the Joseph T. Bowen Country Club, owned by the Hull-House Association of Chicago. Here, children from many national, racial and religious backgrounds learned to respect each other and the environment. ...

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Gettysburg Campaign

Part of Gen. Early's Confederate army, under Gen. J.B. Gordon, passed here June 27, 1863, to York. Early's main force followed a parallel route through Hampton and East Berlin. Both entered York the following day.

Marker is on York Road ...

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