Duncan College Preparatory School for Boys

Marvin T. Duncan, a graduate of Webb School (Bell Buckle) and Vanderbilt University, founded Duncan School in 1908 at this site on 25th Avenue S. He and his wife, Pauline, taught at the school until it closed in 1952. The ...

The First Complete County Rural Free Delivery Service

In the United States was inaugurated by the post office department on December 20, 1899 covering the whole of Carroll County and small parts of adjacent counties with Westminster as the central distributing point.

Marker is at the intersection of Main ...

Battle of Glendale

Charge of the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry

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In April 1862, Union forces under Gen. George B. McClellan began a major campaign to capture Richmond, marching west from Fort Monroe up the Peninsula between the York and James rivers toward the Confederate capital. ...

Dedicated to the Men and Women of Sharon

Dedicated

In Grateful Tribute To

The Men And Women Of

Sharon

Who Have Served Our Country

Since The Founding Of The Town

In 1739

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Connecticut Route 41) and Amenia Road (Connecticut Route 343), on the right when traveling south ...

Birthplace of William Henry Rinehart

1825–1874. Sculptor. He began his studies in Baltimore and in 1858 established a studio in Rome. Among his more important works are the monument to Chief Justice Taney in Annapolis and the completion of the bronze doors to the Capitol ...

Headquarters Second Corps Army of the Potomac

On and about the nearby Babylon Farm Major General Winfield Scott Hancock rested his corps June 29, 1863. On July 1, the corps marched through Taneytown to take part in the Battle of Gettysburg.

Marker is on Uniontown Road ½ mile ...

The First School

Site

of

The Latin School

The First School

circa 1774

Founded by the Rev. Jacob Green

Plaque erected by

E. Hanover American Revolution

Bicentennial Committee

1776 - 1976

Marker is at the intersection of Old Mt Pleasant Avenue and Hanover Road, on the left when traveling west on Old Mt ...

Fort Slocum

Civil War Defenses of Washington

No visible evidence remains of Fort Slocum, which stood here and across Kansas Avenue to your left.

Cannon mounted at Fort Totten helped repulse a Confederate attack on Fort Stevens, July 11-12, 1864.

Marker is ...

Dr. Warburton’s Office

Home to an Early Santa Clara Valley Physician

Doctor Henry Hulme Warburton was one of the first physicians in the Santa Clara Valley. Born in Staffordshire, England in 1819, he emigrated to the United States in 1844. Warburton was a surgeon ...

Bolmer Farm House - 1754

This remodeled farm house is the last of the farm houses built by members of the Bolmer family. Settling here before 1799, the Bolmers were the first early Dutch settlers in the fertile Washington Valley. Robert and Marie Bolmer had ...