The Riversdale Dependency

Large estates, such as Riversdale, had a number of outbuildings. These support structures, or dependencies, were essential to the operation of a large property. Historians and archaeologists have documented that a kitchen, servant quarters, wash house, smokehouse, privy, and garden ...

The Old South River Club

Organized 1700. House built 1742. The oldest social club in America.

Marker is on South River Clubhouse Road 0.8 miles east of Solomon’s Island Road (Maryland Route 2), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Mississippi River

"The Father of Water" has provided means of travel and commerce since early days. Indians, explorers, priests, traders, and settlers plied its current in canoes, dugouts, flatboats, keelboats, packets, and towboats.

Until the Civil War, Cape Girardeau thrived as a river ...

The First Telephone Exchange South of the Potomac River

The first telephone exchange south

of the Potomac River opened

at this site April 1, 1879

1219 E. Main Street

Old Dominion Chapter

Telephone Pioneers of America

C.&P. Telephone Co. of Va.

1979

Marker is at the intersection of South 13th Street and East Main Street (U.S. 60), ...

The Town of Riverdale Park

Welcome to the Town of Riverdale Park

Formally incorporated in 1920, the town of Riverdale Park derives its name fom historic Riversdale plantation. Riversdale Mansion still stands today, surrounded by the community that grew up around it.

A visit to Riverdale Park ...

Commerce and the Hudson River

The Hudson River has always been a major avenue of New York State’s economy. During the 19th century, many industries, large and small, sprang up along its shores. To the south of Stony Point, beds of rich clay near Haverstraw ...

The River: a Corridor and a Barrier

Lancaster-York Heritage Region

Although the Susquehanna has long been a north-south transportation corridor, it was an impediment to east-west traffic. As early as the seventeenth century,ferries emerged at various points along the river to overcome this barrier. John Wright, an enterprising ...

River Town / Sails and Steam / The Highway West

RIVER TOWN

"The settlement of the Ohio country, sir, engrosses many of my thoughts... and if I am to form an opinion on what I have seen and heard on the subject, there are thousands in this quarter who ...

Mighty River / Learning the River

MIGHTY RIVER

Although it remains an unpredictable force of nature, the Ohio River was far more volatile a century ago. Thirty-foot floods could wash away everything along the river's edge, only to be followed by dry spells that would lower the ...

Muskingum River Underground Railroad / Marietta Leaders of the U

Muskingtum River Underground Railroad

People living in Marietta and along the Muskingum River shared a history of slavery opposition. Manasseh Cutler, from Massachusetts and an Ohio Land Company agent, helped draft the Ordinance of 1787 that prohibited slavery in the Northwest ...