The City of Hyattsville

Welcome to the City of Hyattsville

Christopher Clark Hyatt purchased a land parcel in 1845 and soon after the surrounding farmland was subdivided into housing lots. By 1859, the tract officially began to be recognized as Hyattsville.

According to G. M. Hopkin's ...

Site of the Town of Lamar

Site of the town of

Lamar

Named for

Mirabeau B. Lamar

1798 – 1859

President of the

Republic of Texas

1838 – 1841

Established in 1838

Made a Port of Entry in 1839

Sacked by Union Troops

Feb. 11, 1864

Survived until 1914

but never flourished.

Marker is on Texas Route 35 0.1 miles ...

The Foscue Plantation House

Built 1804

Certified by State of North Carolina Division of Archives and History and entered on the National Register of Historic Places.

Restored 1974 - 78

Marker is on U.S. 17 north of Harriet Lane.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Anton F. and Mary Kubicek Duplex

Anton F. and Mary Kubicek Duplex

1926

is listed in the State Register of Historic Places

Marker is on Rutledge Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of One of the Homes of James Power

Site of one of the homes of

James Power

Born in Ireland, 1789

Died in Live Oak Point, Texas, 1852

With James Hewetson

he was granted authority

January 11, 1828

to settle 200 families in Texas

Served Texas under three flags as

Empresario, Soldier, Statesman

Signed the Texas Declaration of ...

L'ancien Cimetiere Francais

L'ancien Cimetiere Francais

Blessed by Father Dunand May 6, 1817

Here, on grounds long used by Indians,

French 'hommes du nord' buried their loved ones.

Present Markers - Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Gardipi 1845 • Jean Joseph Rolette 1842 • Elizabeth Rolette 1843 • ...

President Wilson’s Asbury Park Executive Offices

Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, used the entire fifth floor of this building for his executive offices during the late summer and early fall of 1916 while he vacationed at Shadow Lawn, the Summer White House at ...

The Acropolis of Athens

[Marker text printed in both Greek and English scripts:]

The Acropolis and its monuments, universal symbols of the classical spirit and culture, form the greatest architectural and artistic whole that Greek Antiquity has bequeathed to the world.

The most famous of these ...

Fort Delaware

1755     1785

This fort represents the buck-skinned variety of American frontier fortifications. It tells the story of the Delaware Company a group of Connecticut pioneers who established their settlement in the face of every conceivable hardship.

This authentic ...

Robert Fulton Birthplace

The inventor and painter was born here Nov. 14, 1765. Famous for his steamboat "Clermont", he also invented canal machinery, a "diving boat", and torpedoes.

Marker is at the intersection of Robert Fulton Highway Rt 222 and Swift Road, on the ...