Union Station & Riverfront Park

Transportation center of Montgomery located in this area for many years. First steamboat, the "Harriet," landing nearby 1821. City wharf Constructed at landing place 1823. First railroad, Montgomery & West Point R.R., developed ca. 1840. By 1900 most major railroads ...

LaFayette Historical Lodge #65

This is one of the oldest continuously occupied buildings in LaGrange. In 1857, Lodge #65 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of California was formed.

The Odd Fellows purchased the two story jail from the County in 1862 and it ...

The Founders Bridge

The

Founders Bridge

Commemorating the men and women

who traveled here in 1636

with the Rev. Thomas Hooker

to found the City of Hartford

This plaque placed by

The Society of the Descendants Of the Founders of Hartford

in the year 2000

Marker can be reached from the intersection ...

First State Capitol Building

Directly opposite this tablet was located the first State Capitol Building in which California’s first legislature assembled in December 1849. San Jose was the seat of government from 1849 to 1851.

Marker is on South Market Street near Paseo de San ...

William H. Mortensen Riverfront Plaza

Welcome to William H. Mortensen Riverfront Plaza

Mortensen Riverfront Plaza, the centerpiece of the Riverfront park system, spans I-91 to connect downtown Hartford with the Connecticut River. From the plaza, visitors can cross the river on the Founders Bridge promenade or ...

Officers’ Quarters

1814

Report from the Fort

31 October 1820 . Major Samuel Babcock, Engineer

Quarters for officers 96 by 28 feet and two stories high built in 1814.

Report from the Fort

16 October 1844 . Major Brevet C.W. Thomas

The ...

Historic Fort Lincoln Cemetery

Fort Lincoln Cemetery was chartered in 1912 by an act of the Maryland General Assembly and presently contains 178 acres.

Here, at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, masterworks of marble, granite and bronze stand in solemn dignity and provides a tranquil setting ...

African Americans in the Mill Village

African Americans experienced the textile mill world very differently than white families. Mills did not offer the same work opportunities to black men and women as they did for whites. Life in the mill village was also restricted, and black ...

Captain Thomas Fallon

1990

This statue of Captain Thomas Fallon was commissioned in 1988. It memorialize the raising of the U.S. flag in San Jose in 1846, when California was still a part of Mexico. Scheduled to by installed in 1990, the statue generated ...

John Charles Fremont

Captain United States Navy (Ret’d)

Born February 26, 1880

Died October 13, 1957

A brilliant Officer

and a successful commander

Served in Spanish-American War on U.S.S. St. Louis

Later saw service in China Squadron

In World War I served with distinction in

command of destroyer squadrons from

Queenstown, Ireland

Awarded ...