Headquarters of Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall

On this site stood the dwelling which was the headquarters of Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall, Hessian Commander mortally wounded in the Battle of Trenton December 26, 1776 in which house he died the following day.

The dwelling was from November 30, ...

Treaty of the Holston

250 yards east, near the mouth of First Creek, William Blount, Governor of the Territory South of the River Ohio, on July 2, 1791, signed a treaty with 48 chiefs of the Cherokee. It ceded a tract of land east ...

The Ohio Military Hall of Fame Monument

Ohio Heroes

The purpose of the Ohio Military Hall of Fame is to recognize those Ohio individuals who served in the United States military and distinguished themselves by displaying extraordinary heroism in action against an enemy of the United States while ...

Battle of Harlem Heights

September 16 – 1776

In grateful remembrance of

the brave soldiers

of New York, New Jersey,

Connecticut, Massachusetts,

Rhode Island, Pennsylvania,

Maryland and Virginia

who under

General George Washington

fought and died on this site

for liberty

in their country’s ...

Conference House

In September 1776, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge met here with British Lord Howe in an unsuccessful negotiation for peace.

Revolutionary War Heritage Trail

Marker is on Satterlee Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

In Loving Memory of Fire Fighters

In loving memory of Fire Fighters

Robert J. Mizopalko

born 9/16/1952

Joseph F. Woods, Jr.

born 11/25/1960

The supreme sacrifice was made by these two brave men on the morning of August 4, 1986 while fighting a 3rd alarm fire at 121 South Warren St. ...

Site of E.C.V. Saloon

Near this spot the “E.C.V. Saloon” stood in 1853. Believed to be the only E. Clampus Vitus (miners’ fun fraternal order) saloon officially recorded.

Marker is on Main Street east of Church Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Guns of Sandy Hook

The guns and missiles are silent now, most of them gone to scrap metal. But from colonial times until 1974, a series of defenses stood on Sandy Hook to guard New York Harbor. Here, for almost fifty years, the Army ...

City Point Defenses

Securing the Union Position

The fort behind you is all that remains of the inner defense line built by the Union army in 1864 to protect its base headquarters at City point. With a powerful fleet of ironclads and gunboats controlling ...

First Woman in Town of Lisbon

Melinda Ann (Warren) Weaver, B. Feb. 25, 1813 in New York State, married an English immigrant, John Weaver, in 1833. In the fall of 1836, with Melinda 7 months pregnant & leading two children the Weaver family took an Erie ...