Fond du Lac

Fond du Lac was incorporated in 1857 and became a part of the City of Duluth in 1895. This is the site of a major Chippewa Indian settlement from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries and is situated on the ...

Bordentown Female College

Dedicated to the Memory of

The Bordentown Female College

1850 — 1900

Presented by the B.F.C. Association

Marker is on Crosswicks St. near Farnsworth Ave, in the median.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Famous Indian Trail

For the last 20 miles this highway has followed the course of the noted Upper Trading Path that led from present Augusta to Indian tribes as far away as the Mississippi River. By various connections the trail reached the Cherokees ...

Dayton, Springfield, and Urbana Electric Railway

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The Dayton, Springfield, and Urbana Electric Railway (DS&U) was an “Interurban” rail system that ran between the cities of Urbana, Springfield and Dayton. Its beginning can be traced to the franchise given to William H. Hanford to operate a ...

St. Jean (Aziz Yahya) Kilisesi/The Church of St. John

[Left column: text in Turkish]

[Right column: text in English]

According to the written sources, the basilica with wooden roof which includes St. John’s grave was in a poor situation in 6th century AD. Emperor Justinian (527–565 AD) and Queen Theodora constructed ...

"A Pacific Paradise on the Potomac"

"A Pacific Paradise on the Potomac," suggests the type of atmosphere that existed at Freestone Point in July, 1957. The S.S. Freestone, a gambling ship, was the main attraction of an exciting new recreational resort. Even though it was illegal ...

Henry Brooks Farm

At the distant end of the field in front of you stood the home of Henry Brooks, the first owner of much of what would become Popes Creek Plantation.

As you look toward the house site, perhaps you can sense the ...

Early Roads To San Felipe

During the mid-1820's, When Stephen F. Austin was founding this town, the only roads in the area were wagon ruts or beaten trails marked by notched trees. Within a decade, however, the village of San Felipe, one of the first ...

"At the Point of Rock"

“At the point of rock,” the translation of the American Indian word Neabsco, describes clearly the high bluff of land in front of you known as Freestone Point. The location of Freestone Point is indicated on maps from the 18th ...

Rockport’s Seafood Industry

Rockport’s commercial seafood companies have been operating for more than one hundred years. By 1903, David Rockport Scrivner had opened a fish house. In 1907, he sold to Roy Jackson who named the operation the Jackson Fish Company. A few ...