Bottle Hill Tavern

Site of

‘Bottle Hill Tavern’

conducted by

David Brant

prior to 1750

Marker is at the intersection of Park Avenue and Ridgedale Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Park Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

In Honor Of Edith M. Dabbs and James McBride Dabbs

In Honor Of

Edith M. Dabbs

for her work and leadership in preserving

historic documents and photographs of Penn

School and for her contributions as author of

Face of an Island and Sea Island Diary

and

James McBride Dabbs

for his dedicated service as trustee and

advocate ...

The Elms Inn and Stebbins Homestead

Ridgefield, Connecticut

In 1799, Thomas Rockwell opened a small carpentry shop which later became part of the Elms Inn. It was also a shoemaker’s shop and later, a tin shop operated by Francis Rockwell. Francis was also a vintner whose vineyard ...

The Covered Bridge

The Philippi Covered Bridge across Tygart Valley River was built in 1852 by Lemuel Chenoweth of Beverly. Made of wood, with the exception of the iron bolts used to hold the segments together, it is an example of the best ...

Dearborn Hills Golf Club

During his long career Robert Herndon developed over fifty subdivisions and nine golf courses. In 1922 he opened the Dearborn Hills Golf Club. According to the Dearborn Times Herald, it was Michigan's first public golf course. Having been rejected by ...

Springvale Ballroom

Side A:

Springvale Ballroom is located on part of the one hundred and forty acre tract that English immigrant John Biddulph bought in 1840. Fred Biddulph, John Biddulph's grandson, was born near this site in 1887. Fred and his ...

The Oxcart Library

In 1829 the citizens of Lenox voted to change the township name to Olmsted as their part of a bargain to acquire 500 books owned by the heirs of Aaron Olmsted.

Believed to be the first publicly-owned library in ...

Battle of Trevilians

Here, on June 12, 1864, Sheridan's cavalry, coming from Trevilians, attacked Wade Hampton, who had taken position across the road. A bloody engagement followed. Fitz Lee joined Hampton, and the Union cavalry was driven back. That night Sheridan retired eastward.

Marker ...

Historic Davenport / Interstate 80 Bridge

Marker Front:

In 1829, William C. Redfield declared that Davenport lay opposite the future terminus of a “geographical trunk-line route” between the Atlantic and the Mississippi. Nine years later, in 1838, the Iowa Sun and Davenport and Rock Island News ...

Balto

The Sled Dogs

Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of

The Sled Dogs

that relayed antitoxins six hundred miles over rough ice across treacherous waters through arctic blizzards from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the winter of 1925.

Endurance, Fidelity, Intelligence

Marker can ...