Hartford Municipal Building

This Property

Has been placed on the

National Register

Of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

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

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Fort Roberdeau

The Revolutionary fort site can be seen a few miles from here. Built 1778 by Daniel Roberdeau to protect lead mines in Sinking Valley which supplied the Continental army.

Marker is on Skelp Road 0.7 miles from Old US 220 (Pennsylvania ...

In honour of Capt. Caleb Tree

In honour of

Capt. Caleb Tree

who came to

Canada in 1796

from New-

Hampshire, settled

on this farm and

along with other

pioneers founded

Stanbridge East

in 1801.

En l'honneur

des pionniers de

Stanbridge Est.

Erected in 1966

Marker is on Chemin Gage 0.1 kilometers south of Quebec Route 202, on the right when ...

Robert Blackwell

Feb. 17, 1796 - Apr. 30, 1866

Born in Kentucky. State Printer. Publisher of Laws of United States. Editor of newspaper "Illinois Intelligencer" 1825-32 and Co-Owner with James Hall 1829-32. House of Representatives 1832. Senate 1838-40. Black Hawk War soldier.

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Illinois First ...

Robert E. Wurtsbaugh

1930 - - 1950

Memorial Bridge

Korean War Hero

Dedicated May 30, 1989

Marker is on West Ellsworth Street south of Oakwood Avenue, on the left when traveling south.

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First Baptist Church of Liberty Hill

Successor to Zion Baptist Church and the Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church of Christ, which merged 1854, and met in a brush arbor or in Silent Grove School, 4 miles to the west. When Austin & Northwestern Railroad was built, ...

Verrazano – Narrows Bridge

“We found a pleasant place below steep little hills. And from among those hills a mighty deep-mouthed river ran into the sea.” Giovanni da Verrazano, Italian explorer, 1524

Until the 1960s, the only way from Brooklyn to Staten Island was ...

Harbour Square

Harbour Square, completed 1966, contains seven historic dwellings. Development of the historic structures was initiated by James Greanleaf in the early 1790's. The financier sold individual lots to Thomas Law for the "Barney House" and the Lewis House. Robert Morris ...

Chain Bridge

In 1797, the merchants of Georgetown built here the first bridge over the Potomac River in order to compete with the Virginia port of Alexandria. The Falls Bridge allowed trade from the "upper country" of Virginia to move directly to ...

President - Elect Abraham Lincoln

In the Old State Capitol Nearby,

President-Elect Abraham Lincoln

used the Governor's Office as Headquarters

until he left for Washington.

Early in the Civil War,

Ulysses S. Grant

also served here as Special Military Aide

to Governor Yates.

During the War, Illinois coutributed

225,300 men,

about one-tenth of the Union's ...