End of Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride

At this point,

on the Old Concord Road as it then was

ended the midnight ride of

Paul Revere

He had at about two o’clock on the morning of April 19, 1775, the night being clear and the moon in its third quarter, got ...

28th St Draw Bridge / Great Shiplock Canal

"The Tidewater Connection"

28th St Draw Bridge

The lift bridge before you was built by the Norfolk and Southern Railroad in 1929 to serve the paper mills along the Pamunkey River at West Point.

A moveable bridge was always necessary to allow ships ...

Wickersham Cabin

This is the site of the original cabin of James J. Wickersham. He was an author, pioneer judge, congressional delegate and Alaska Visionary.

Alaska Centennial 1867-1967

State of Alaska

Governor Walter J. Hickel

Alaska Centennial Commission

Marker is at the intersection of 1st Avenue and ...

Where do we bury our dead? Lincoln Cemetery

The first half-acre of this cemetery was purchased in 1867 by a society of Black men calling themselves the “Sons of Goodwill,” and for many years this place was called the “Goodwill Cemetery.” The minutes of the Sons of Goodwill ...

Clay Street Cemetery

In Memoriam

From 1905 to 1916 at least 83 men died and 400 were injured in gold mining accidents in the Fairbanks area. Underground mining was dangerous during this pioneer era. Most died from cave-ins, falling down shafts, being struck by ...

The Founding of Fairbanks

Captain E.T. Barnette, whose trading post on the Chena River became the city of Fairbanks, arrived here on the sternwheeler Lavelle Young with Captain Adams on August 26, 1901.

Felix Pedro and partners, mining for gold in the hills above town, ...

The Reedy River

Reedy River Falls Historic Park

The Reedy River, named for the "reeds" which once grew close around its banks, flows from Traveler's Rest southward for almost sixty miles. In the middle of Greenville, it tumbles into steep, narrow falls, and then ...

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 ...

Barnette's Landing

Captain E.T. Barnette, a passenger on the riverboat Lavelle Young, debarked near this site on August 26, 1901, and established a trading post which in 1902 became known as Fairbanks.

Alaska Centennial 1867-1967

State of Alaska

Governor Walter J. Hickel

Alaska Centennial Commission

Marker is ...

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church

The National Cathedral of African Methodism

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church was founded in the District of Columbia in 1838. It is the oldest A.M.E. church and the oldest continuously black-owned property in Washington, D.C. - the Nation's Capital. The ...