Downtown Sheboygan Falls Historic District

?In 1835, upon finding these falls and their fine water power, Massachusetts pioneer and entrepreneur Silas Stedman decided to purchase the surrounding land for village and industrial development. The following year, Stedman platted the "Town of Rochester" and built the ...

Bristol Iron Works

On the river a short distance south is the site of the Bristol Iron Works, which were projected by John King and Company, of Bristol, England, and established in 1721 by John Tayloe, John Lomax and associates. The works, which ...

Brown’s Tavern

This plaque and garden commemorate the site of Brown’s Tavern, a Prince George’s County Historic Site that served travelers on the former Baltimore-Washington turnpike from the early 1830’s to the early 1990’s. It was constructed and owned by the stagecoach ...

Liberty Hill

In 1923 the Marine Transport Industrial Workers Union 510, a branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), called a strike that immobilized 90 ships here in San Pedro. The Union protested low wages, bad working conditions, and imprisonment ...

Stevens Ranch Fruit Barn

Around 1890, Orvis Stevens built this fruit barn to store fruit. He was one of the first orchardists in Coyote Valley, located in South San José. Born in Vermont, Stevens came to California in 1852 to try his hand at ...

Brock's Monument - Queenston Heights Battlefield

The monument towering above you is a memorial to Major-General Sir Isaac Brock commander of British forces in Upper Canada at the beginning of the War of 1812. Brock died on the slopes below Queenston Heights on October 13, 1812, ...

In Memory of Robert Scoville, M.A.

This Gateway Is Erected

In Memory Of

Robert Scoville, M.A.

1876 – 1934

For Thirty Years a Trustee

Of the Hotchkiss School

And its Treasurer From

1915 to 1934

His Fellow Members of the

Board of Trustees Hereby

Commemorate Their Affectionate

Regard for Him and Their

Gratitude for His Generous

Service to the ...

Grave of Major Majoribanks / Northampton

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Grave of Major Majoribanks

The British army encamped at Wantoot Plantation, home of Daniel Ravenel, after the Battle of Eutaw Springs. Now under Lake Moultrie, it was about 25 miles southeast in St. John's Parish, 5 miles west ...

Nation's First Public Library

Nation's First Public Library

In 1803, Caleb Bingham established in Salisbury the first library in the United States open to the public free of charge. The collection was expressly created for use by young people nine to sixteen years of age ...

Site of Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

1912-1942

For nearly 30 years, America’s first full-time volcano observatory occupied this site. Under the direction of Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, world renowned volcanologist, the expertise to monitor and study volcanoes was developed. In 1942, the observatory was relocated to ...