Scenic Drive

As early as 1881, El Paso leaders promoted the idea of creating a place along the base of the Franklin Mountains to provide visitors a panoramic view of the area. The automobile brought new attention to the idea, and in ...

Howe Hall Plantation / Howe Hall Elementary School

(Front text)

Howe Hall Plantation

Howe Hall Plantation was established here by Robert Howe about 1683 and passed to his son Job Howe (d. 1706), Speaker of the Commons House of Assembly 1700-05. Later owned by such prominent lowcountry families as ...

Crawford - Capper Burial Site

Samuel Crawford, publisher, attorney,

farmer, and financial agent, served

as Third Governor of Kansas, 1856-1868,

and as head of the 19th Kansas Volunteer

Cavalry, 1868-1869. His wife, Isabel,

the daughter of Enoch Chase, a founder

of Topeka, at age 18 became the youngest

First Lady of Kansas.

Arthur ...

Cooper Park

Daniel C. Cooper (1773-1818) perhaps more than any other deserves to be called the founder of Dayton. A surveyor with Israel Ludlow, Cooper settled in Dayton in the summer of 1796 and became titular owner of the town when the ...

Freedom Boat Yards

Moving from Phillipsburg, Stephen Phillips and Jonathan Betz built a three acre yard for building of steamboats and barges in 1832, on land bought from Abner Lacock. The firm changed ownership many times in the next forty years. 138 boats ...

Walkway Over the Hudson

Walkway Over the Hudson

A place to enjoy the river and a place to appreciate the wonder of an engineering feat unprecedented in its time with a beauty unsurpassed in our generation.

History

• Completed in 188, the Poughkeepsie-Highland train ...

Gen. Henry Knox Trail

Through this place passed

Gen. Henry Knox

in the winter of 1775-1776

to deliver to

Gen. George Washington

at Cambridge

the train of artillery

from Fort Ticonderoga

used to force the British

Army to evacuate Boston

Erected by

The ...

Fighting Tradesmen

During World War I, the Public Works Department at Great Lakes was tasked with the original construction of new facilities. Originally, Public Works was to use local civilian contractors. The problem, however, was that patriotic tradesmen joined the armed forces ...

Kemper's Brigade

August 30, 1862

5:30 p.m.

Kemper's Division, Right Wing (Longstreet)

Army of Northern Virginia, CSA

Kemper's Brigade

Col. Montgomery D. Corse

1st Virginia - 11th Virginia

7th Virginia - 17th Virginia

24th Virginia

"Above us, on a gentle rise, was ...

Historical Facts of Burt County

(South Side)

Old block house was built by U.S. War Department on this site in 1855 to protect white colony from Indians.

Crowning achievment of the pioneers was a gold medal award for best agricultural display at World's Fair 1893 in ...