Omaha Firefighters Memorial

Honor • Tradition

As pioneers settled in small towns and villages across Nebraska, the shout of “Fire” summoned fear and panic in every person who heard it. If they were lucky, bucket brigades could save part of a burning building and ...

Village of Bergen

National Historic District

Laid out as Wardville 1840s

Railroad forwarding station destroyed by fire 1866 & 1880 incorporated as Bergen 1877

District Registered 1985

Marker is at the intersection of North Lake Avenue (New York Route 19) and Leroy Street, ...

Town of Bergen

Bergen chartered 1813

Part of Morris Reserve-Triangle and 100,000 tracts

Rt. 19 opened 1801. Bergen Swamp - National landmark

Marker is on South Lake Avenue (New York Route 19) just south of Rochester Street, on the right when traveling north.

Battle of Wilton

February 17, 1693

British forces of 250

Whites & 290 Indians

engaged French & Indian

forces of “800 or 700” men.

Marker is on Parkhurst Road near Greenfield Road, on the right when traveling south.

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Founded 1843

Churchville Graded School occupied this building until 1895. A fine example of the lost art of building with cobblestones.

Marker is on West Buffalo Street (New York Route 33) just east of Evergreen Drive.

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Jacksonville's 1901 Fire

"The Great Fire"

On May 3, 1901 at 12:30 p.m., a fire began at the Cleaveland Fibre Factory, ten blocks northwest of this site. Chimney embers ignited sun-dried moss to be used as mattress stuffing. Fueled by wind and dry weather, ...

Spirit of 1775 Beeline March to Cambridge

On 11 June 1775, the Second Continental Congress authorized the raising of ten companies of riflemen in

Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to aid General George Washington at the British siege of Boston. The Berkeley

County Committee of Safety selected Captain ...

First United Methodist Church 1872

Following a fire in June 1902 that destroyed the Methodist Episcopal Church of the North Alabama Conference, along with most of downtown Alexander City, the church leadership chose to relocate to this site.

Construction began in 1903 on the neoclassical ...

Fort Gillem

Named in honor of Lt. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem, Jr.

Enlisted as a Private in the 17th Infantry in 1910 at Ft. McPherson, Georgia and returned after 37 years of service spanning the globe from China and Siberia to Europe and ...

Site of First Cabin

On this site was built

the fist cabin and

Weaverville named

July, 8 1850

Marker is on Court Street east of Main Street (California Highway 299), on the left when traveling east.

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