Uncle Eli's Quilting Party

Began here in former Eli Whitney School

In 1921 Principal E.P. Dixon started high school classes in nearby vacant cotton gin, naming school for the inventor Eli Whitney.

In 1923 high school classes relocated to building on this site. In 1928 ...

10th Independent Battery New York Light Artillery

1st Volunteer Brigade

10th Independent Battery

New York Light Artillery

1st Volunteer Brigade

Artillery Reserve

July 2nd 1863.

Attached to 5th Massachusetts

Light Battery (E).

Casualties

Killed 2. Wounded 3.

Organized as the 2nd

Excelsior Battery.

Mustered into U.S. Service

April 9th 1862.

Consolidated with 6th

N.Y. Independent Battery

June 21st 1864.

Mustered out June 22nd 1865.

Marker ...

“The Whole Art, Secret and Mystery of Manufacturing Sturgeon”

For several thousand years the waters of the Delaware River supplied fish to Native Americans living along the riverbank. Colonial Immigrants and modern Americans followed suit, catching fish for their own local consumption and for sale in domestic and overseas ...

Thomas Hart Benton

1889 - 1975

Thomas Hart Benton was born at 214 East McKinney St., Neosho, on April 15, 1889, the son of Congressman M. E. Benton, and grand nephew of Missouri’s first senator, Thomas Hart Benton.

Tom’s early years were shared by listening ...

"A World Apart"

World War II Memorial

Honoring all veterans of

Chatham County who gave

their lives to retain the freedom

of the United States of America

and saved the world from tyranny

Marker is on W River Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

New Fairfield Fire Department Memorial

Upper marker:

The New Fairfield

Volunteer Fire Department

Dedicated To All Members

Past and Present

2003

Lower marker:

The New Fairfield Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. was formed in 1934 consisting of seven districts – Center, New Fairfield bay, Squantz Pond, Balls pond, Pine Hill, Haviland Hollow and ...

C.F. Martin & Co. Guitars

Established 1833

Christian Frederick Martin (1796-1873) established his first instrument shop on this site in the late Fall of 1833. He emigrated here with his family from the small town of Markneukirchen, Germany to form what would become C.F. Martin ...

Stuart's Bivouac

Reconnoitering on 13 Oct. 1863, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart found himself and two cavalry brigades cut off from the Army of Northern Virginia by the Union II Corps. The Confederates concealed themselves all night just north of here in a ...

Dedicated to the Family of Don Ignacio Martinez

Dedicated to the family of Don Ignacio Martinez, who settled El Rancho Pinole in 1830. Many of his descendants rest here, members of one of Contra Costa's first families.

Dedicated by

Joaquin Murrieta Chapter 13

E Clampus Vitus

September 18, 1982

Marker is on ...

Platteville Started Here

(from the memoirs of John H. Rountree): "During the fall of 1827 my partner and myself purchased a mineral prospect that had been discovered, by finding small pieces of lead mineral in the litter piles of dirt scratched out by ...