Northumberland House and Mantua

Five miles northeast is the site of Northumberland House, built by the third Peter Presley, who was murdered in 1750. He was the last male descendant of the first William Presley, who settled there and who was a Burgess as ...

Gay Liberation Sculpture

In 1984, the George Segal sculpture, Gay Liberation, was placed on this site through the efforts of the gay and lesbian community and the New Harvest Foundation.

In 1991, the sculpture was moved to its original intended home in New York ...

Cariboo Gold Fields

Districts Aurifères de Cariboo

English:

A search for the source of placer gold found on lower parts of the Fraser River led to discoveries of lode mines in the Cariboo, of which Williams Creek, is said to have yielded $19,000,000. As a ...

Casemates or Bombproofs

1798

Report from the Fort

21 January 1802 • Major J. J. Ulrich Rivardi

The bombproofs are six in number and well arched.

No.1 - used as a guard house has two large bake ovens – its dimensions are 50 ...

Built 1898 Liriodendron

A palladian-style summer home built for Dr. & Mrs. Howard A. Kelly. Now a multi-use historical cultural and educational center for Harford County.

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Marker is at the intersection of N. Main Street and Gordon Street, on the right when traveling north ...

Salsbury Spring

Salsbury Spring provided drinking water and cooled the milk for the 250 acre dairy farm of Capt. Harmon L. Salsbury (1838-1913), commander of the US Colored Troop Company D, 26th Regiment from New York during the Civil War. The spring ...

Cornelius S. Bushnell Memorial

This memorial is erected

in honor of

Cornelius Scranton Bushnell

a citizen of New Haven to

whose faith persistence

and patriotism the

country is indebted for

the construction of

the Monitor

from plans by

John Ericsson

The Monitor defeated the

Merrimac March 9th 1862.

Marker is at the intersection of Chapel Street ...

Rehoboth

("There is Room")

? 5 miles

1000 acres surveyed 1665 for

Col. William Stevens,

member of Governor's Council,

through whose influence

Francis Makemie

came to Maryland and established

Presbyterianism in the State. On this

same tract stood the Episcopal

Church of Coventry Parish.

Marker is at the intersection of US 13 ...

Burlington

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Burlington

The original inhabitants of the part of Farmington known as West Woods were Tunxis Indians. Early settlement by white man was scattered. The first house of record, noted in an estate inventory of 1725, was that of John ...

Carver Bridge

Carver Bridge

Cut stone with wood deck, Timothy

Carver, first supervisor of the

Town of Carmel, drowned there in

1824. It is now under 50 feet of

water one half mile to the south.

Allan Warnecke, Historian Town of Carmel 2001

Marker is at the intersection ...