Early Settlers & Allen R. Foley

Site of a log hut where the Hutchinson and Messenger Families were the first to winter in Norwich in 1765.

Erected by the Norwich Historical Society in memory of Professor Allen Rich Foley, Vermont Legislator and Historian 1898-1978.

Marker can ...

West Falls Church Station

In 1912, from the station that stood nearby to your right, you could board a modern interuban passenger coach at 7:34 a.m. and arrive in Georgetown by 8:00 sharp.

It was a new century and Washington, D.C., was on the move. ...

Moses Carver Family Cemetery

As an impressionable young boy, George Washington Carver looked on as friends and neighbors were interred in the Moses Carver Family Cemetery. The cemetery may contain as many as 40 graves dating as far back as 1835, but only 21 ...

The Manor of Steyning

The Manor of Steyning

of 15,500 acres patented by

William Penn

for "Fatherly Love"

and one beaver skin yearly to his daughter

Laetitia Penn

at Philadelphia, October 23, 1701

is here marked on its western line adjoining

a tract of ...

Company F, 1st U.S. Sharpshooters

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Corps

(Front):The State of

Vermont

to the officers and men of

Co. F.

1st U.S. Sharpshooters.

2nd Brig. 1st Div. 3rd Corps.

(Left):Engaged at this point

on the morning of July 2, 1863.

and on Cemetery Ridge July 3.

Also on the skirmish line July ...

First Public Grammar School

Located on this site

On June 17, 1785, the Vermont General Assembly enacted a law which designated “the place for keeping a County Grammar School in and for Windsor County, shall be at the house commonly known by the name the ...

Birthplace of George Washington Carver

Within this area by Act of Congress

of July 14, 1943, is preserved

the birthplace of

George Washington Carver

who rose from slavery to become

a distinguished scientist and

a great force in creating

racial understanding

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Estate Staff

This laundry yard was often filled with clothes hung out to dry. Inside the house domestic servants cooked, cleaned, and tended to the family’s needs. Mina Edison supervised a staff that included a cook, governess, personal maid, kitchen maid, chauffeur, ...

What an Orphan Chooses to Forget - and Remember

Sometime near the end of the Civil War, a slave was born here in a cabin. His mother, Mary, named the baby - her second son - George. Moses Carver had purchased Mary as an enslaved person back in 1855, ...

War Eagle Mills Farm

The Ozark Arts and Crafts Fair was founded on War Eagle Mills Farm by Lester and Blanche Elliott and friends in October 1954 for the purpose of giving recognition to Ozark artists and craftsment who work with their hands and ...