Roebling …… Wire Rope and American Bridges

One of the iron and steel products for which Trenton became best known was wire rope. Originally developed as a stronger and more durable alternative to hemp, wire rope was first successfully produced in America in the early 1840s by ...

Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight

[East Side]

"Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight" from poem by

Vachel Lindsay

Sculptor

Fred Martin Torrey 1884-1967

Born in Fairmont, West Virginia

Dedicated

June 20, 1974

Arch A. Moore, Jr. Governor

[South Side]

Abraham Lincoln created the state of West ...

Bradford's Landing

Hiram S. and Miles Bradford inaugurated this landing in 1824. Together with Brownsville Landing, 10 miles upriver, it was a river terminal for the first settlers and commerce in this area. Hiram Bradford established the first cotton gin and store ...

Beattystown Historic District

Settled 1750

Early farming, milling, manufacturing & trading settlement. Site of Revolutionary War march and encampment, 1777.

New Jersey & National Registers of Historic Sites designation achieved in 1990.

Marker is on New Jersey Route 57 0.1 miles east of Airport Road, on ...

North American F-86D Sabre

S/N 52-3669

The first operational F-86D entered USAF Squadron service in March of 1951, with McChord's 317th FIS, and the 465th FIS receiving their first aircraft in 1953. The 465th FIS was later redesignated as the 318th FIS on 18 August ...

First Strawberries

Coming to this region from his native Maryland in 1867, David Brandenburg established here the first large-scale strawberry-growing operation in Tennessee. The industry has now become an important factor in the produce economy of the mid-South.

Marker is on U.S. 70A, ...

Anderson Field / Walterboro Army Air Field

(Anderson Field side):

This airfield, the first in Colleton County, was built and dedicated in 1933 on 60 acres leased to the town of Walterboro by the estate of C.C. Anderson, foe whom it was named. By 1937 the town purchased ...

Damage From Naval Bombardments

The largest naval guns used against land fortifications were fired on fort McAllister in 1863 from monitor-type Union ironclads. 15 in. shells penetrated 17 feet of sand, digging craters 89 ft. in diameter and 7 ft. deep on exploding, but ...

Civil War Action in Edinburg

During Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's 1862 Valley campaign, Confederate Col. Turner Ashby's cavalry and Chew's Battery halted Union Maj Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's steady advance southward. Ashby engaged Union forces 28 times in April along Stony Creek and ...

Amboy and Roy's Café

Amboy, settled as early as 1858, became a water stop when the Southern Pacific Railroad laid its tracks through the Cadiz Valley in 1883-84. Following the course of the railroad and the National Old Trails Highway, Route 66 was opened ...