Steamboat Enterprise/Boatbuilding Center

Steamboat Enterprise

Fourth steamboat built in Western Pennsylvania, Bridgeport, 1814. Engine design by Daniel French. Capt. Henry M. Shreve, commanding. Steamed to New Orleans, Fall, 1814 and returned June 1815. First steamboat to ascend the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

Boatbuilding Center

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Benjamin Wells

Nearby was the house of this collector of excise tax on whiskey. In the summer of 1794, after the Whiskey Rebellion had turned violent, his house was burned down by an angry crowd. Wells had spurned previous warnings by excise ...

Ebenezer Cemetery

(Left Gate Structure)

Ebenezer Cemetery

This gate was donated by those below in loving memory of family and friends buried here.

Billy & Mary Ann Gallahan, Jack Garrison, Russell & Barbara Decatur, James T Edwards, Kenneth & Darlene Davis, Lucille Ferguson, David & ...

The Durham Boat

In the 1700's, Robert Durham built his historical boat in Durham, Pa. These boats were used to ship cannon balls, made at the Durham Furnace, to Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War. On Christmas Eve, in 1776, Washington and his men ...

Elizabeth

Here were the boatyards of John and Samuel Walker, a major center for building boats for western waters. A ship launched in 1793 at these yards reached Philadelphia via New Orleans.

Marker is on Hayden Boulevard (Pennsylvania Route 51), on the ...

Beatty

Center of the Gold Railroads

Beatty was the center of three short-lived, so-called "gold" railroads that were spawned by the strikes of the early 1900's in Tonopah, Goldfield and Rhyolite.

During 1906-'07 three railroads were built in this area. The Las ...

94th Bomb Group

8th Air Force - Rougham Air Field - A.A.F. Station 468

“In memory and in honor of all those who

served in the 94th Bombardment Group”

Dedicated 11 Oct 1991

Courtesy hmdb.org

Durham Bat Mine

This 18th century abandoned iron ore mine now serves as an important refuge for several species of bats. With community support, Heritage Conservancy has been protecting these bats, the mine and the surrounding conservation area since acquiring it in 2001. ...

456th Bomb Group

15th Air Force

744, 745, 746 & 747th Squadrons

1944 Cerignola, Italy 1946

In honor of those who served

Dedicated Septeber 1992

Courtesy hmdb.org

731st Bomb Squadron (L-NA)

Japan / Korea 1950 - 1951

This memorial is dedicated to the officers and airmen of the 731st Bomb Squadron who served during the Korean War. This was the first Air Force Reserve unit in history to be recalled to duty ...