Site of Pleasure Ground

Part of Original Archibald Kennedy Patent

James Ward-Grist-Miller, owned present village-called Ward's Bridge until 1810. Land part of Thomas & Mary Powell, vast farm on both sides of Union Street, early Hudson River steamboat builders.

1850-1878-Site of first Orange County Fairs, circuses, ...

Frank Leigh Robeson

(1884-1974)

Student 1901-1904

Faculty Member 1904-1954

Head, Department of Physics 1923-1954

As a student at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (now Virgnia Tech), Frank Leigh Robeson helped draw plans for many campus buildings and faculty houses. During half a century of ...

Tom Sawyer’s Fence

Here stood the board fence which Tom Sawyer persuaded his gang to pay him for the privilege of whitewashing.

Tom sat by and saw it was well done.

Marker is on Hill Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Line Occupied - Rifle Corps

Line occupied

Rifle Corps

under General Hand

at opening of battle

August 29, 1779

Marker is on Oneida Road (County Road 60) just west of Lowman Road (County Road 2), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Cecil and Frances Brown House

Designed by Houston architect Henry A. Stubee and built in 1938, this was the home of local civic, church, and business leader Cecil Brown and his wife Frances. Both were from pioneer Quaker families. Mr. Brown was prominent in the ...

Friends Church Cemetery

In 1895, six families left the disbanded Quaker settlement of Estacado in the Lubbock area and moved to Galveston County. Here, they established the community of Friendswood, named in honor of their faith and association with the Society of Friends, ...

Halfmoon Reef Lighthouse

Constructed in 1858, this three-story hexagonal lighthouse was originally located in Matagorda Bay, at the southern tip of Half Moon reef. The beacon served as an aid to ships trading in Port Lavaca and the nearby town of Indianola (14 ...

The House of John H. Stevens

The US Post Office stands on the site of the first permanent dwelling in what is now Minneapolis. The land was part of the Fort Snelling Military Reservation in 1849, but the army allowed John H. Stevens to build a ...

University of California Foothill Field Station

1888 – 1903

The Foothill Station became the first University of California qualifying outlying station funded jointly by federal, state and local county sources in March 1888. The station was developed under the patronage of Senator A. Caminetti of Jackson. Over ...

The Battle of Brandy Station

The Civil War in Culpeper County

On June 9, 1863, the Civil War visited the river fords, farmer's fields and rolling hills near Brandy Station. During the intense daylong fighting that swirled all around the little town, Confederate and Union horsemen ...