Site of Rappahannock Industrial Academy

1902 - 1948

Founded by

Southside Rappahannock Baptist Association

Education - The Hope of a Glorious Future

Original Trustees

Willis Brook - Ned Fitzgerald - C. H. Newman

D. R. Page - Thomas Pollard - J. R. Ruffin

N. A. Wiggins

W. E. Robinson - Principal - 1904 ...

A Century of Service: Manitowoc Public Library 1900-2000

Manitowoc has a rich library tradition. Around the Civil War several efforts were made to provide library services, but failed primarily due to lack of funding. During 1898 and 1899 the Clio Club, a women's literary group, raised $4,700 to ...

Patriots of the Revolution

Revolutionary War Heritage Trail

British Forces Burn Kingston

Responsible for the security of Kingston, when the British burned the Village on October 16, 1777 – General Clinton wrote to General Gates that of the promised 3000 men, only 400 were ...

British Royal Navy in the Estonian War of Independence

IN MEMORY

of the officers and seamen of the British Royal Navy

who served and gave their lives in the cause of freedom

in the Baltic during the Estonian War of Independence

1918 - 1920

MALESTUSEKS

Briti Kuningliku Merevae ohvitseridele ja meremeestele

kes voitle sid ja andsid ...

St. Genevieve ~ Of ~ The ~ Pines

The Religious of Christian Education, an

order of nuns originally from France,

established Hillside Convent School on

January 6, 1908. In 1910, the school was

moved to this site and renamed St.

Genevieve~of~the~Pines. For eight decades,

the school educated young women and

men ...

Cheese Factory

First in Town of Berne

Built in 1878 and Made

495 Pounds in a Single Day

Marker is on Berne-Altamont Road (New York Route 156) 0.4 miles north of New York Route 443, on the right when traveling north.

Sophia Fussman

During burning of Humboldt, Sophia Fussman saved valuables on a feather bed thrown down her well.

Marker is on 8th Street near Bridge Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

J. A. Coffey

Founder of Humboldt 1857

and Coffeyville 1869

Marker is on 8th Street near Bridge Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Confederate Soldier

was shot here Oct. 14, 1861, as he tried to remove Union flag.

Marker is at the intersection of Bridge Street and 9th Street, on the right when traveling east on Bridge Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Evolution of the Senate House

Senate House State Historic Site

Wessel Ten Broeck, a Dutch immigrant to New York, built and owned what would become the Senate House. Although only portions of his 1676 house remain, Ten Broeck’s residence was probably a modest stone house ...